Melvin Bobo has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE . The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in July 2007. Melvin Bobo ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Melvin Bobo in Cincinnati, OH, US.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2007 Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 1992. peak 9 1980: 3 patents 1980 1986: 1 patents 1987: 1 patents 1987 1988: 1 patents 1990: 2 patents 1990 1991: 1 patents 1992: 9 patents 1992 1993: 3 patents 1994: 1 patents 1994 1995: 1 patents 2007: 1 patents 2007
Issued Patents All Time
Showing 1–24 of 24 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
7238008
Turbine blade retainer seal
Lawrence Wayne Plemmons, deceased , Robert J. Albers , William Lee Herron
2007-07-03
$63,432,000
5443229
Aircraft gas turbine engine sideways mount
Michael O'Brien
1995-08-22
$31,461,000
5361828
Scaled heat transfer surface with protruding ramp surface turbulators
Ching-Pang Lee , Joseph W. Savage
1994-11-08
$13,735,000
5228784
Squeeze film damper composite ring seal
—
1993-07-20
$13,385,000
5207511
Squeeze film damper oil control
—
1993-05-04
$15,296,000
5188375
Squeeze film damper piston ring seal
Adam N. Pope
1993-02-23
$9,338,000
5169240
Proportioned piston ring seals
Adam N. Pope
1992-12-08
$9,315,000
5156528
Vibration damping of gas turbine engine buckets
—
1992-10-20
$9,537,000
5149250
Gas turbine vane assembly seal and support system
Larry W. Plemmons , Alan P. Wilds , Gary Charles Liotta
1992-09-22
$13,603,000
5149206
Hydraulic shaft damper pressure control
—
1992-09-22
$13,603,000
5143499
Deformable cylinder locknut
Peter W. Mueller , Thomas F. McClure
1992-09-01
$11,214,000
5143383
Stepped tooth rotating labyrinth seal
Christopher Charles Glynn , Byron E. Swanson
1992-09-01
$11,214,000
5123240
Method and apparatus for ejecting foreign matter from the primary flow path of a gas turbine engine
Wilson Frost , Peter John Wood , Daniel R. Little
1992-06-23
$10,402,000
5106208
Proportioned piston ring seals
Adam N. Pope
1992-04-21
$7,347,000
5088888
Shroud seal
—
1992-02-18
$14,117,000
5018873
Air temperature measurement
—
1991-05-28
$15,540,000
4973221
Gas turbine engine motor assembly
Bernard J. Anderson
1990-11-27
$8,681,000
4934600
Exhaust nozzle thermal distortion control device
Dudley O. Nash , Steven John Croft
1990-06-19
$11,535,000
4743166
Blade root seal
Sidney B. Elston, III , Robert J. Corsmeier
1988-05-10
$13,849,000
4644806
Airstream eductor
Elgin E. Flagg
1987-02-24
$5,537,000
4580946
Fan blade platform seal
—
1986-04-08
$6,595,000
4222230
Combustor dome assembly
Thomas L. DuBell
1980-09-16
$2,892,000
4214796
Bearing assembly with multiple squeeze film damper apparatus
Fred J. Monzel
1980-07-29
$3,485,000
4198815
Central injection fuel carburetor
Richard E. Stenger
1980-04-22
$2,135,000