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Robert B. Brooks — 11 Patents

GE: 8 patents #4,329 of 36,430Top 15%
ISItt Automotive Electrical Systems: 1 patents #29 of 74Top 40%
Louisville, KY: #239 of 3,201 inventorsTop 8%
Kentucky: #964 of 11,577 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Robert B. Brooks has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in January 2009. Robert B. Brooks ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Robert B. Brooks in Louisville, KY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1986.peak 31981: 1 patents19811982: 1 patents19821983: 2 patents19831984: 1 patents19841985: 1 patents19851986: 3 patents19861999: 1 patents19992009: 1 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7480536 Method for assessing reliability requirements of a safety instrumented control function Eric S. Kaufman, Bret Stephen Dalton, Kenneth Lee Leary 2009-01-20 $254,276,000
5862903 Centrifugal clutch for power door locks James M. Gruden 1999-01-26
4627556 Ice dispenser for a household refrigerator 1986-12-09 $8,323,000
4619380 Ice dispenser for a household refrigerator 1986-10-28 $6,213,000
4614088 Ice piece ejection mechanism for icemaker 1986-09-30 $18,295,000
D278464 Combined fire hose and cabinet therefor 1985-04-16
4429931 Contained fire hose 1984-02-07
4385075 Method for thawing frozen food 1983-05-24 $7,251,000
4368622 Refrigerator with through-the-door quick-chilling service 1983-01-18 $11,098,000
4326390 Apparatus and method for thawing frozen food 1982-04-27 $3,332,000
4297852 Refrigerator defrost control with control of time interval between defrost cycles 1981-11-03 $2,215,000