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Robert Gregory Wagoner — 150 Patents

GE: 143 patents #19 of 36,430Top 1%
WEWestinghouse Electric: 3 patents #1,176 of 5,212Top 25%
MAMagnetek: 2 patents #20 of 105Top 20%
FCFranklin Electric Co.: 1 patents #43 of 101Top 45%
Roanoke, VA: #1 of 603 inventorsTop 1%
Virginia: #41 of 34,511 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #6,240 of 4,157,543Top 1%
150 Patents All Time
Robert Gregory Wagoner has been granted 150 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in May 2025. Robert Gregory Wagoner ranks #6,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.15%). Patent records list Robert Gregory Wagoner in Roanoke, VA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 17 patents in 2020.peak 171988: 1 patents19881990: 2 patents1995: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents1999: 1 patents2003: 2 patents20032004: 1 patents2007: 2 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 4 patents2011: 9 patents20112012: 6 patents2013: 3 patents2014: 12 patents20142015: 15 patents2016: 16 patents2017: 7 patents20172018: 12 patents2019: 11 patents2020: 17 patents20202021: 9 patents2022: 5 patents2023: 5 patents20232024: 4 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 150 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12301005 System and method for controlling an active harmonic filter in an inverter-based resource Pushkar Chandrakant Chaudhari, Kapil Jha, Werner Gerhard Barton, Saurabh Shukla, Arvind Kumar Tiwari 2025-05-13
12113433 System and method for detecting IGBT failure in a multi-level converter using gate-emitter voltage sensing Nathaniel Robert Michener 2024-10-08 $107,969,000
12015276 System and method for pre-charging a DC link of a power converter Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Zane Taylor Miller, Steven Wade Sutherland 2024-06-18 $112,564,000
11923783 System and method for detection of switching device failure conditions in a multi-level power converter Kapil Jha, Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Nathaniel Robert Michener, Arvind Kumar Tiwari, Joseph Kiran Banda 2024-03-05
11909302 Active neutral point clamped switch sequence for parasitic inductance control of a power conversion assembly Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Nathaniel Robert Michener 2024-02-20 $45,861,000
11664715 Power electronics assembly having a potted high voltage attenuator card for a wind turbine John Springer Harrison, Benjamin Arthur Niemoeller, Stephen D. Nash 2023-05-30 $37,581,000
11594953 System and method for operating multi-level power converter using a multi-state deadtime Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Nathaniel Robert Michener 2023-02-28 $32,656,000
11569712 System and method for detecting bearing insulation and ground brush health in a generator Rupam Mukherjee, Kapil Jha, Arvind Kumar Tiwari, Kum Kang Huh 2023-01-31
11552575 System and method for operating multi-level power converter using multiple deadtimes Nathaniel Robert Michener, Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Steven Wade Sutherland, Rajesh Bhupathi, Igor Berroteran 2023-01-10 $27,241,000
11545910 Hybrid capacitor bank for a power conversion assembly Rajesh Bhupathi, Zane Taylor Miller, Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Bacil Shaqqo, Joseph Kiran Banda 2023-01-03
11486356 System and method for controlling a wind turbine Cornelius Edward Holliday, Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Mathew Doyle Angel, Nathan Michael Killeen, Edward Wayne Hardwicke, Jr. +3 more 2022-11-01 $18,597,000
11486360 System and method for controlling wind turbine converters during high voltage ride through events David Scott Wilmer 2022-11-01 $18,597,000
11480153 System and method for controlling a wind turbine to protect the wind turbine from anomalous operations Cornelius Edward Holliday, Mathew Doyle Angel, Nathan Michael Killeen, Edward Wayne Hardwicke, Jr., Steven Wade Sutherland +3 more 2022-10-25 $20,171,000
11261846 System and method for designing and operating a wind turbine power system based on statistical analysis of operational and/or grid data thereof Dale R. Mashtare, Pedro Arsuaga Santos, James Gregory Rotbert 2022-03-01 $28,481,000
11258387 System and method for neutral point balancing for back-to-back voltage source converters Joseph Kiran Banda, Kapil Jha, Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Bacil Shaqqo, Hridya Ittamveettil 2022-02-22
11196260 System and method for control of reactive power from a reactive power compensation device in a wind turbine system Jayanti Ganesh, Arvind Kumar Tiwari, Kasi Viswanadha Raju Gadiraju, Igor Berroteran, Cornelius Edward Holliday 2021-12-07 $44,489,000
11152787 System of modular reactive power compensators Arvind Kumar Tiwari, Jayanti Ganesh, Kasi Viswanadha Raju Gadiraju, Harmeet Singh Narang 2021-10-19 $32,735,000
11114963 Method and system for enhancing electrical power production by a power generation system by controlling switches to place a rotor-side converter in parallel with a line-side converter Govardhan Ganireddy, Arvind Kumar Tiwari, Yashomani Y. Kolhatkar, Anthony Michael Klodowski, John Leo Bollenbecker +2 more 2021-09-07 $46,820,000
11081891 Electrical power systems having reactive power and harmonic support components Harold Robert Schnetzka, John Leo Bollenbecker, Govardhan Ganireddy 2021-08-03 $33,261,000
11031792 Battery charging control system and method of operation thereof 2021-06-08 $35,958,000
11013070 System and method for controlling multiple IGBT temperatures in a power converter of an electrical power system Lathom Alexander Louco 2021-05-18 $76,774,000
10965132 Grounding circuit for a backup power source Jeffrey Alan Melius 2021-03-30 $63,247,000
10951030 System and method for reactive power control of a wind farm Govardhan Ganireddy, Rajni Kant Burra, Wei Ren, Anthony Michael Klodowski, Saurabh Shukla +1 more 2021-03-16 $67,201,000
10931115 Electrical power systems having a cluster transformer with multiple primary windings Arvind Kumar Tiwari, Rajni Kant Burra 2021-02-23 $40,946,000
10871145 System and method for preventing voltage collapse of wind turbine power systems connected to a power grid Zhuohui Tan, Weihao ZHOU, Nithya Anand 2020-12-22 $69,320,000