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Robert Dean King — 159 Patents

GE: 140 patents #20 of 36,430Top 1%
ASAmerican Systems: 2 patents #1 of 3Top 35%
WBWestinghouse Air Brake: 1 patents #504 of 671Top 80%
FCFiber Composites: 1 patents #6 of 15Top 40%
THTransportation Ip Holdings: 1 patents #357 of 657Top 55%
SSSouthern Company Services: 1 patents #106 of 120Top 90%
Schenectady, NY: #8 of 1,353 inventorsTop 1%
New York: #230 of 115,490 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #5,495 of 4,157,543Top 1%
159 Patents All Time
Robert Dean King has been granted 159 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in August 2025. Robert Dean King ranks #5,495 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.13%). Patent records list Robert Dean King in Schenectady, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2015.peak 161994: 2 patents19941996: 3 patents1997: 2 patents1998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents2001: 3 patents2002: 2 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 3 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 6 patents2007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 4 patents2010: 5 patents2011: 14 patents20112012: 12 patents2013: 8 patents2014: 9 patents20142015: 16 patents2016: 9 patents2017: 14 patents20172018: 8 patents2019: 5 patents2020: 5 patents20202021: 6 patents2022: 4 patents2023: 3 patents20232024: 2 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 159 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12386376 System and method for a charging station Santosh Sambamoorthy Veda, Irene Michelle Berry, Zhi Zhou, Matthew Christian Nielsen, Lembit Salasoo 2025-08-12
12384260 Apparatus and method for rapid charging using shared power electronics Robert Louis Steigerwald 2025-08-12
12265436 Power distribution management based on distributed networking protocol analytics David Michael King 2025-04-01
11989069 Power distribution management based on distributed networking protocol analytics David Michael King 2024-05-21
11884168 Apparatus and method for rapid charging using shared power electronics Robert Louis Steigerwald 2024-01-30 $41,339,000
11752887 Apparatus for energy transfer using converter and method of manufacturing same Robert Louis Steigerwald 2023-09-12 $25,729,000
11697352 Method and apparatus for charging multiple energy storage devices Ruediger Soeren Kusch, Robert Louis Steigerwald 2023-07-11 $52,223,000
11670788 Apparatus and method for high efficiency operation of fuel cell systems Timothy Gerard Richter 2023-06-06 $32,155,000
11400820 Apparatus and method for rapid charging using shared power electronics Robert Louis Steigerwald 2022-08-02 $26,150,000
11351874 Vehicle propulsion system with multi-channel DC bus and method of manufacturing same Zhihao Li 2022-06-07 $33,697,000
11318852 Method and apparatus for charging multiple energy storage devices Ruediger Soeren Kusch, Robert Louis Steigerwald 2022-05-03 $43,702,000
11231733 System and method of power control for an energy storage charging station Santosh Sambamoorthy Veda, Irene Michelle Berry, Zhi Zhou, Matthew Christian Nielsen, Lembit Salasoo 2022-01-25 $87,820,000
11167654 Apparatus for transferring energy using power electronics and machine inductance and method of manufacturing same Robert Louis Steigerwald 2021-11-09 $51,629,000
11075394 Apparatus and method for high efficiency operation of fuel cell systems Timothy Gerard Richter 2021-07-27 $51,014,000
10994623 Apparatus for energy transfer using converter and method of manufacturing same Robert Louis Steigerwald 2021-05-04 $39,650,000
10958069 System for selectively coupling an energy source to a load and method of making same Paul Robert Gemin, Irene Michelle Berry, Lembit Salasoo 2021-03-23 $41,522,000
10946748 High power-density, high back EMF permanent magnet machine and method of making same Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie 2021-03-16 $67,201,000
10933754 Vehicle propulsion system with multi-channel DC bus and method of manufacturing same Zhihao Li 2021-03-02 $38,447,000
10766372 Method and apparatus for charging multiple energy storage devices Ruediger Soeren Kusch, Robert Louis Steigerwald 2020-09-08 $18,040,000
10666045 System for selectively coupling an energy source to a load and method of making same Paul Robert Gemin, Irene Michelle Berry, Lembit Salasoo 2020-05-26 $18,077,000
10604023 Apparatus for energy transfer using converter and method of manufacturing same Robert Louis Steigerwald 2020-03-31 $9,765,000
10549648 Vehicle propulsion system with multi-channel DC bus and method of manufacturing same Zhihao Li 2020-02-04 $28,211,000
10543755 Apparatus and method for rapid charging using shared power electronics Robert Louis Steigerwald 2020-01-28 $30,221,000
10520966 System and method of power control for an energy storage charging station Santosh Sambamoorthy Veda, Irene Michelle Berry, Zhi Zhou, Matthew Christian Nielsen, Lembit Salasoo 2019-12-31 $15,125,000
10454290 Apparatus for transferring energy using onboard power electronics with high-frequency transformer isolation and method of manufacturing same Robert Louis Steigerwald, Ruediger Soeren Kusch 2019-10-22 $15,277,000