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Sam D. Draper — 16 Patents

GE: 15 patents #2,042 of 36,430Top 6%
RTX (Raytheon): 1 patents #8,290 of 15,912Top 55%
Simpsonville, SC: #102 of 1,013 inventorsTop 15%
South Carolina: #831 of 15,501 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Sam D. Draper has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in August 2016. Sam D. Draper ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Sam D. Draper in Simpsonville, SC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2013.peak 62009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents20122013: 6 patents20132014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9422816 Airfoil with hybrid drilled and cutback trailing edge Brandon W. Spangler 2016-08-23 $21,441,000
9410479 Method for adjusting the operation of a turbomachine receiving a recirculated exhaust gas James Anthony West, Rex Allen Morgan, Lewis Berkley Davis, Jr., Amit S. Toprani 2016-08-09 $34,430,000
8991149 Dry 3-way catalytic reduction of gas turbine NOX Ashok Anand, James Anthony West, Gilbert Otto Kraemer, Hasan Karim, Jonathan Dwight Berry 2015-03-31 $12,199,000
8910485 Stoichiometric exhaust gas recirculation combustor with extraction port for cooling air Gilbert Otto Kraemer, Kyle Moore 2014-12-16 $17,704,000
8720206 Methods and systems for inducing combustion dynamics Kevin Weston McMahan, Mark Allan Hadley, Geoffrey David Myers 2014-05-13 $18,583,000
8484975 Apparatus and method for start-up of a power plant James Anthony West 2013-07-16 $20,112,000
8443584 Inlet system for an EGR system Douglas Scott Byrd, Carl Gerard Schott, Rahul J. Chillar, Amit S. Toprani 2013-05-21 $39,885,000
8402737 Inlet system for an EGR system Douglas Scott Byrd, Carl Gerard Schott, Rahul J. Chillar, Amit S. Toprani 2013-03-26 $18,336,000
8397483 Inlet system for an EGR system Douglas Scott Byrd, Carl Gerard Schott, Rahul J. Chillar, Amit S. Toprani 2013-03-19 $17,697,000
8397482 Dry 3-way catalytic reduction of gas turbine NOx Gilbert Otto Kraemer, Ashok Anand, James Anthony West, Hasan Karim, Jonathan Dwight Berry 2013-03-19 $17,697,000
8397484 Inlet system for an EGR system Douglas Scott Byrd, Carl Gerard Schott, Rahul J. Chillar, Amit S. Toprani 2013-03-19 $17,697,000
8177886 Use of oxygen concentrators for separating N2 from blast furnace gas Shahryar Rabiei 2012-05-15 $13,463,000
8056318 System for reducing the sulfur oxides emissions generated by a turbomachine Rahul J. Chillar, Robert Warren Taylor, Peter Martin Maly, Amit S. Toprani 2011-11-15 $14,348,000
7926256 Inlet system for an EGR system Douglas Scott Byrd, Carl Gerard Schott, Rahul J. Chillar, Amit S. Toprani 2011-04-19 $18,974,000
7787996 Determining optimal turbine operating temperature based on creep rate data and predicted revenue data Scott Mordin Hoyte, Eric Gebhardt, Erin K. Bauknight 2010-08-31 $21,001,000
7536252 Method and system for controlling a flowrate of a recirculated exhaust gas Joell R. Hibshman, II 2009-05-19 $83,337,000