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Michael M. Secen — 9 Patents

GE: 9 patents #3,767 of 36,430Top 15%
Mentor, OH: #69 of 709 inventorsTop 10%
Ohio: #9,077 of 73,341 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Michael M. Secen has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in July 2010. Michael M. Secen ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Michael M. Secen in Mentor, OH, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1995.peak 31991: 1 patents19911994: 1 patents19941995: 3 patents19951996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents19971999: 1 patents19992010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7758215 PAR lamp with short arc HID bulb and cut-out in aluminum to prevent arcing David A. Gwinn 2010-07-20 $25,829,000
5917289 Lamp ballast with triggerless starting circuit Louis R. Nerone, David J. Kachmarik 1999-06-29 $97,976,000
5619106 Diodeless start circiut for gas discharge lamp having a voltage divider connected across the switching element of the inverter 1997-04-08 $48,694,000
5483125 Ballast circuit for a gas discharge lamp having a cathode pre-heat arrangement David J. Kachmarik, Louis R. Nerone, Kurt W. Haas 1996-01-09 $36,866,000
5479102 Simulated load circuit for simulating the arc impedance of an electrodless discharge lamp Sayed-Amr El-Hamamsy, Mark E. Duffy, Gerald E. Duffy 1995-12-26 $30,214,000
5440199 Base for electrodeless discharge lamp Raymond A. Heindl, Mark E. Duffy, Frederick Hetzel, David J. Marks, Lawrence T. Mazza +1 more 1995-08-08 $24,898,000
5382878 Auto-starting system for an electrodeless high intensity discharge lamp Edward J. Thomas, Sayed-Amr El-Hamamsy 1995-01-17 $24,738,000
5332970 Method for measuring the impedance of an electrodeless arc discharge lamp Sayed-Amr El-Hamamsy, Mark E. Duffy, Gerald E. Duffy 1994-07-26 $19,370,000
5059867 Ballast circuit with improved transfer functions Louis R. Nerone, Michael M. Minarczyk 1991-10-22 $8,051,000