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Mark Lawrence Darnell — 17 Patents

GE: 17 patents #1,729 of 36,430Top 5%
Grand Rapids, MI: #96 of 1,824 inventorsTop 6%
Michigan: #5,079 of 86,293 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Mark Lawrence Darnell has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in May 2023. Mark Lawrence Darnell ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Mark Lawrence Darnell in Grand Rapids, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2017 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2019.peak 52017: 2 patents20172018: 3 patents20182019: 5 patents20192020: 5 patents20202021: 1 patents20212023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11651695 Engine load model systems and methods David Michael Lax 2023-05-16 $52,141,000
11174034 Optimizing aircraft control based on noise abatement volumes David Michael Lax, Brandon James Rhone 2021-11-16 $26,219,000
10832581 Flight management via model-based iterative optimization Eric Richard Westervelt, Reza Ghaemi, David Michael Lax 2020-11-10 $10,622,000
10794705 Methods and systems for optimal guidance based on energy state approximation Reza Ghaemi, Eric Richard Westervelt, David Michael Lax 2020-10-06 $18,020,000
10777085 Efficient flight profiles with multiple RTA constraints David Michael Lax, Reza Ghaemi, Nicholas Visser 2020-09-15
10592636 Methods and systems for flight data based parameter tuning and deployment Liling Ren, Faisal Goussous, Meet Patel, Filippo Liverini, Sean Hwang +1 more 2020-03-17 $10,893,000
10579053 Aircraft control based on fuel, time, and deterioration costs Albert Jeffrey Ellis, David Michael Lax 2020-03-03 $15,775,000
10521981 Vehicle wash assessment Jeffrey Russell Bult, David Michael Lax 2019-12-31 $15,125,000
10460610 Aircraft profile optimization with communication links to an external computational asset Eric Richard Westervelt, MacKenzie Dylan Cumings, David Michael Lax, Liling Ren, Nicholas Visser 2019-10-29 $21,217,000
10399689 Optimizing aircraft control based on noise abatement volumes David Michael Lax, Brandon James Rhone 2019-09-03 $13,145,000
10260883 Methods and systems for optimal guidance based on energy state approximation Reza Ghaemi, Eric Richard Westervelt 2019-04-16 $13,481,000
10169175 Providing failover control on a control system Stefano A. M. Lassini, Timothy John Theriault 2019-01-01
10108189 Integrated flight management system and flight director Michael Eric Figard, Norman Leonard Ovens, Sharon Ann Green, Jennifer Cooper, So Young Kim +1 more 2018-10-23 $22,850,000
10005561 Controlling aircraft using thrust differential trim Steven Louis Kiebles, David Michael Lax, Otto Darias, Sean Hwang, Christopher Daniel Holbert +4 more 2018-06-26 $20,372,000
9911339 Experimental real-time performance enhancement for aircraft David Michael Lax, Sridhar Adibhatla, Szabolcs A. Borgyos 2018-03-06 $13,192,000
9646505 Method of automatically controlling the descent phase of an aircraft using aircraft avionics executing a descent algorithm Sherif Fouad Ali 2017-05-09 $13,772,000
9564056 Flight path optimization using nonlinear programming Reza Ghaemi, Eric Richard Westervelt 2017-02-07 $30,893,000