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Ronald B. Bailey — 14 Patents

GE: 11 patents #3,022 of 36,430Top 9%
RARailpower: 2 patents #5 of 11Top 50%
SOSiecor Operations: 1 patents #22 of 84Top 30%
Erie, PA: #60 of 1,097 inventorsTop 6%
Pennsylvania: #5,450 of 74,527 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Ronald B. Bailey has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in August 2012. Ronald B. Bailey ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Ronald B. Bailey in Erie, PA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1993.peak 41981: 3 patents19811990: 1 patents19901992: 1 patents19921993: 4 patents19932000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents20012011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8237384 Dynamic braking circuit for a hybrid locomotive Andrew Tarnow, Frank Wegner Donnelly, Kris Redinger 2012-08-07
7940016 Regenerative braking methods for a hybrid locomotive Frank Wegner Donnelly, John D. Watson, Andrew Tarnow 2011-05-10
6233149 High power inverter air cooling Vinod Kumar Singh, Wayne A. Kennedy, Eric J. Wildi 2001-05-15 $99,837,000
6188822 Self-supporting fiber optic cable and an apparatus and methods for making the same Warren Welborn McAlpine, Jeffrey A. Clampitt 2001-02-13
6160696 Modular bus bar and switch assembly for traction inverter Dimitrios Ioannidis 2000-12-12 $174,843,000
5262691 Gate turnoff thyristor control circuit with shorted gate detection Herbert J. Brown 1993-11-16 $10,298,000
5253613 High power AC traction inverter cooling Ronald F. Griebel 1993-10-19 $16,670,000
5245495 Automatic flashover protection for locomotive traction motors Herbert J. Brown, Myron L. Smith, Edgar T. Balch, Roger Huczko, Joseph A. Laukaitis 1993-09-14 $15,121,000
5204804 GTO module with piggyback bypass diode Stephen T. Radack 1993-04-20 $7,818,000
5168416 Automatic flashover protection for locomotive traction motors Herbert J. Brown, Myron L. Smith, Edgar T. Balch, Roger Huczko, Joseph A. Laukaitis 1992-12-01 $9,977,000
4904918 Power conversion system including an improved filter for attenuating harmonics Ajith K. Kumar, David L. Plette 1990-02-27 $6,208,000
4284936 Chopper type propulsion system with low speed electrical braking capability for traction vehicles Thomas D. Stitt 1981-08-18 $2,265,000
4284938 Chopper with adaptive energy commutation 1981-08-18 $2,265,000
4256982 Electric pulse shaping circuit 1981-03-17 $4,495,000