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Robert James Bracken — 14 Patents

GE: 14 patents #2,231 of 36,430Top 7%
Niskayuna, NY: #257 of 949 inventorsTop 30%
New York: #10,566 of 115,490 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Robert James Bracken has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in August 2017. Robert James Bracken ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Robert James Bracken in Niskayuna, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2007.peak 22005: 1 patents20052007: 2 patents20072008: 2 patents20082009: 2 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents20112012: 2 patents20122015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9726026 Turbine rotor and blade assembly with multi-piece locking blade John Thomas Basirico, Timothy Scott McMurray, Laurence Scott Duclos 2017-08-08 $19,150,000
9057278 Turbine bucket including an integral rotation controlling feature James Royce Howes, Mark Bowen, Laurence Scott Duclos, Scott Leroy Irwin, Nicholas Tisenchek 2015-06-16 $33,168,000
8105032 Systems and methods for internally cooling a wheel of a steam turbine Michael Earl Montgomery, Stephen Roger Swan 2012-01-31 $30,246,000
8100641 Steam turbine having stage with buckets of different materials 2012-01-24 $23,420,000
7921556 Fully bladed closure for tangential entry round skirt dovetails John Cleland Lavash, Praveen Kumar Garlapati 2011-04-12 $27,321,000
7866949 Methods and apparatus for fabricating a rotor for a steam turbine John Thomas Murphy, Clement Gazzillo, John Cleland Lavash, Stephen Roger Swan, Ronald Korzun +1 more 2011-01-11 $21,022,000
7645117 Rotary machines and methods of assembling David Orus Fitts, Sterling Hathaway, William Edward Adis, Ronald Korzun, Larry Duclos 2010-01-12 $161,143,000
7537430 Stacked reaction steam turbine rotor assembly John Thomas Murphy, Stephen Roger Swan, Jeffrey Robert Simkins, Clement Gazzillo, Ronald Korzun +1 more 2009-05-26 $122,390,000
7497658 Stacked reaction steam turbine stator assembly John Thomas Murphy, Stephen Roger Swan, Jeffrey Robert Simkins, Clement Gazzillo, David Orus Fitts +1 more 2009-03-03 $26,509,000
7410345 Turbine nozzle retention key 2008-08-12 $50,020,000
7407370 Axial and circumferential seal for stacked rotor and/or stator assembly John Thomas Murphy, Stephen Roger Swan, Jeffrey Robert Simkins, Clement Gazzillo 2008-08-05 $80,732,000
7287956 Removable abradable seal carriers for sealing between rotary and stationary turbine components Sterling Hathaway, David Orus Fitts, Ron W. Korzun, Laurence Scott Duclos, William Edward Adis +2 more 2007-10-30 $65,915,000
7270512 Stacked steampath and grooved bucket wheels for steam turbines Christopher Walter Sullivan, Jeffrey Robert Simkins, Stephen Roger Swan, David Orus Fitts, Ronald Korzun +1 more 2007-09-18 $32,847,000
6908279 Method of installing stationary blades of a turbine and turbine structure having a radial loading pin Christopher Walter Sullivan, David Orus Fitts, Gregory Lee Landry 2005-06-21 $35,071,000