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Robert Adolph Ackermann — 32 Patents

GE: 24 patents #1,048 of 36,430Top 3%
Koniniklijke Philips N.V.: 7 patents #1,078 of 7,486Top 15%
MTMechanical Technology: 1 patents #43 of 79Top 55%
Schenectady, NY: #73 of 1,353 inventorsTop 6%
New York: #3,705 of 115,490 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Robert Adolph Ackermann has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in August 2020. Robert Adolph Ackermann ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Robert Adolph Ackermann in Schenectady, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 1996.peak 61983: 1 patents19831992: 4 patents1993: 1 patents19931995: 1 patents1996: 6 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19982000: 1 patents2002: 5 patents20022004: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10748690 Method and device for controlling cooling loop for superconducting magnet system in response to magnetic field Philip Alexander Jonas, Philippe Abel Menteur 2020-08-18 $1,734,000
10403423 Superconducting magnet system including thermally efficient ride-through system and method of cooling superconducting magnet system Glen George Pfleiderer, Philip Alexander Jonas, Matthew Voss 2019-09-03 $644,000
10107879 Low-loss persistent current switch with heat transfer arrangement Philip Alexander Jonas, Alexander A. Akhmetov, Philippe Abel Menteur, Glen George Pfleiderer, Matthew Voss 2018-10-23 $955,000
9683759 Very efficient heat exchanger for cryogen free MRI magnet Philippe Abel Menteur, Manmohan Dhar 2017-06-20 $955,000
9575150 Helium vapor magnetic resonance magnet Richard Frank 2017-02-21 $403,000
9494359 Horizontal finned heat exchanger for cryogenic recondensing refrigeration Glen George Pfleiderer 2016-11-15 $376,000
9074798 Tubular thermal switch for the cryo-free magnet Philippe Abel Menteur 2015-07-07 $507,000
7255013 Method and apparatus for measuring cryogenic flow John Arthur Urbahn 2007-08-14 $41,879,000
7003977 Cryogenic cooling system and method with cold storage device Albert Eugene Steinbach, Xianrui Huang 2006-02-28 $38,180,000
6996994 Vacuum retention method and superconducting machine with vacuum retention Yu Wang 2006-02-14 $44,987,000
6708503 Vacuum retention method and superconducting machine with vacuum retention Yu Wang 2004-03-23 $38,830,000
6442949 Cryongenic cooling refrigeration system and method having open-loop short term cooling for a superconducting machine Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Yu Wang 2002-09-03 $53,463,000
6438969 Cryogenic cooling refrigeration system for rotor having a high temperature super-conducting field winding and method Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Yu Wang 2002-08-27 $37,993,000
6437568 Low noise MRI scanner William A. Edelstein, Richard Philip Mallozzi, Robert Arvin Hedeen, Sayed-Amr El-Hamamsy, Mark Lloyd Miller +8 more 2002-08-20 $34,652,000
6415613 Cryogenic cooling system with cooldown and normal modes of operation Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Yu Wang, Brian Ernest Baxter Gott 2002-07-09 $46,704,000
6412289 Synchronous machine having cryogenic gas transfer coupling to rotor with super-conducting coils Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, James Pellegrino Alexander 2002-07-02 $37,392,000
6157276 MRI magnet assembly with non-conductive inner wall Robert Arvin Hedeen, William A. Edelstein, Sayed-Amr El-Hamamsy, Kenneth G. Herd 2000-12-05 $244,026,000
5759960 Superconductive device having a ceramic superconducting lead resistant to breakage Kenneth G. Herd, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Richard Andrew Ranze 1998-06-02 $38,889,000
5691679 Ceramic superconducting lead resistant to moisture and breakage Kenneth G. Herd, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, John Eric Tkaczyk, Kenneth W. Lay, Richard Andrew Ranze 1997-11-25 $67,308,000
5574001 Ceramic superconducting lead resistant to breakage Kenneth G. Herd, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Richard Andrew Ranze 1996-11-12 $125,765,000
5571606 Ceramic superconducting lead resistant to breakage Kenneth G. Herd, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Richard Andrew Ranze 1996-11-05 $61,360,000
5563566 Cryogen-cooled open MRI superconductive magnet Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Bizhan Dorri 1996-10-08 $43,771,000
5552211 Ceramic superconducting lead resistant to breakage Kenneth G. Herd, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Richard Andrew Ranze 1996-09-03 $26,290,000
5552372 Ceramic superconducting lead resistant to breakage Kenneth G. Herd, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Richard Andrew Ranze 1996-09-03 $26,290,000
5513498 Cryogenic cooling system Kenneth G. Herd 1996-05-07 $21,906,000