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Richard DeVos — 24 Patents

GE: 16 patents #1,876 of 36,430Top 6%
I(Inter-City Products Corporation (Usa): 4 patents #2 of 29Top 7%
HSHaier Us Appliance Solutions: 3 patents #271 of 889Top 35%
Goshen, KY: #4 of 32 inventorsTop 15%
Kentucky: #316 of 11,577 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Richard DeVos has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in October 2025. Richard DeVos ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Richard DeVos in Goshen, KY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12449179 Systems and methods for clear ice making in appliances Brent Alden Junge, Kirk Waiz, Dong Huang 2025-10-21
12031767 Free-standing ice or beverage dispensing appliance Gregory Scott Carr, Danister Abeygunawardana, Ronald Gary Foster, Jordan Andrew Waymeyer, Timothy R. Jackson +7 more 2024-07-09
11825981 Single serve beverage dispenser for an appliance Danister Abeygunawardana, Jianwu Li, Gregory Scott Carr, Brent Alden Junge, Michael C. Watanabe 2023-11-28
10174235 Low global warming potential binary refrigerant mixture with comparable energy efficiency to R-134a and a lower heat of combustion Brent Alden Junge 2019-01-08
9128931 Communication of digital information presented on an appliance display 2015-09-08 $16,151,000
8844313 Ice making assembly with bimetallic actuating element and refrigeration appliance incorporating same 2014-09-30 $14,904,000
8596084 Icemaker with reversible thermosiphon Carlos A. Herrera, Brian Robert Campbell, Ronald Smith 2013-12-03 $25,876,000
8599008 Appliance monitoring system and method Eric K. Watson, Timothy Allen Hamel, Natarajan Venkatakrishnan, Charles Dawes, Michael Kello +3 more 2013-12-03 $25,876,000
8534083 Evaporative cooling condenser for household appliance Martin Nicholas Austin, Joel Erik Hitzelberger, Jeffrey Martin Wood, Andrew Veenstra, Brent Alden Junge 2013-09-17 $16,815,000
8474279 Energy management of household appliances John K. Besore, Jeff Donald Drake, Michael F. Finch, Ronald Gary Foster, Darin Franks +5 more 2013-07-02 $14,581,000
8388158 Appliance with an improved solid state device lighting Telema Harry 2013-03-05 $17,421,000
8033126 Flow controlling assembly and method William Newton, Arthur Wilson Scrivener, Kristen Kamath, Sanjeev Singh, Timothy Allen Hamel +1 more 2011-10-11 $21,101,000
7942014 Reduced energy refrigerator defrost method and apparatus Alexander Pinkus Rafalovich, Ziqiang Hu, Anil Kumar Tummala 2011-05-17 $24,694,000
7939179 Laminated steel application for major appliances doors and cases Roger Shawn Nelson, Daniel Wheat, Oleg Berezovsky, Geoffrey Lee Ranard 2011-05-10 $33,146,000
7665320 Damper assembly and methods for a refrigeration device Art W. Scrivener, Kristen Kamath, William Newton 2010-02-23 $64,181,000
6862891 Methods and apparatus for controlling heating within refrigerators 2005-03-08 $50,602,000
6817195 Reduced energy refrigerator defrost method and apparatus Alexander Pinkus Rafalovich, Ziqiang Hu, Anil Kumar Tummala 2004-11-16 $98,864,000
6655169 Refrigerator airflow distribution assembly Jeffery Allen Tupis, Martin Christopher Severance, Arthur Wilson Scrivener, Gerald Eugene Sturgeon, Steven James Gray 2003-12-02 $42,474,000
6550496 Rotary doser valve Jerome J. Tiemann, Andrew Philip Shapiro, Walter Whipple, III 2003-04-22 $55,231,000
6539729 Refrigerator airflow distribution system and method Jeffery Allen Tupis, Martin Christopher Severance, Arthur Wilson Scrivener, Gerald Eugene Sturgeon, Steven James Gray 2003-04-01 $54,789,000
5551508 Condensing unit using cross-flow blower Alexander I. Lim, Jeffrey B. Scott 1996-09-03 $2,444,000
5404939 Condensing unit using cross-flow blower Alexander T. Lim, Jeffrey B. Scott 1995-04-11 $831,000
5335721 Air conditioner modular unit with dual cross flow blowers Bruce A. Wollaber 1994-08-09 $1,316,000
5152336 Air conditioner modular unit with dual cross flow blowers Bruce A. Wollaber 1992-10-06 $1,234,000