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Timothy Chen — 28 Patents

GE: 27 patents #851 of 36,430Top 3%
Germantown, TN: #31 of 458 inventorsTop 7%
Tennessee: #423 of 20,272 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Timothy Chen has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in July 2013. Timothy Chen ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Timothy Chen in Germantown, TN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2002.peak 52001: 1 patents20012002: 5 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 2 patents2005: 2 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 4 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 3 patents2011: 3 patents20112013: 2 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8487541 Method to ensure ballast starting regardless of half cycle input Bruce Richard Roberts 2013-07-16 $20,112,000
8487551 Ultra-high efficiency ballast with end of lamp life protection James K. Skully 2013-07-16
7948191 Parallel transformer with output side electrical decoupling James K. Skully, Haiyan Wang 2011-05-24 $28,053,000
7944155 LED driver with single inverter circuit with isolated multi-channel outputs James K. Skully 2011-05-17 $24,694,000
7923941 Low cost compact size single stage high power factor circuit for discharge lamps Virgil A. Chichernea, James K. Skully 2011-04-12 $27,321,000
7830096 Circuit with improved efficiency and crest factor for current fed bipolar junction transistor (BJT) based electronic ballast Nitin Kumar, James K. Skully 2010-11-09 $22,882,000
7759880 Combined ballast for fluorescent lamp and light emitting diode and method of driving same Istvan Maros, Istvan Bakk, Louis R. Nerone, Nitin Kumar 2010-07-20 $25,829,000
7733028 Method and system for eliminating DC bias on electrolytic capacitors and shutdown detecting circuit for current fed ballast Hailiang Miao, Nitin Kumar 2010-06-08 $26,106,000
7601960 Control for UV water disinfection Andy Albrecht, Larry Fish, Sam DuPlessis 2009-10-13 $109,313,000
7420336 Method of controlling cathode voltage with low lamp's arc current Wei Xiong, Bruce Richard Roberts 2008-09-02 $59,543,000
7382099 Striation control for current fed electronic ballast Timothy B. Gurin, James D. Mieskoski, James K. Skully 2008-06-03 $41,694,000
7327101 Single point sensing for end of lamp life, anti-arcing, and no-load protection for electronic ballast Ajay Karthik Hari, Gregory Alan Harper 2008-02-05 $30,171,000
7315130 Switching control for inverter startup and shutdown James K. Skully 2008-01-01
7247991 Dimming ballast and method Didier Gilbert Rouaud, James K. Skully 2007-07-24 $48,404,000
7193368 Parallel lamps with instant program start electronic ballast James K. Skully 2007-03-20 $101,474,000
7075251 Universal platform for phase dimming discharge lighting ballast and lamp James K. Skully 2006-07-11 $38,154,000
6989637 Method and apparatus for a voltage controlled start-up circuit for an electronic ballast James D. Mieskoski, Virgil A. Chichernea 2006-01-24 $35,297,000
6936970 Method and apparatus for a unidirectional switching, current limited cutoff circuit for an electronic ballast James D. Mieskoski, Didier Gilbert Rouaud, Scott Michael Brandonisio 2005-08-30 $23,976,000
6841951 Single stage HID electronic ballast James K. Skully 2005-01-11 $54,584,000
6831423 High Q impedance matching inverter circuit with automatic line regulation 2004-12-14 $59,686,000
6677718 HID electronic ballast with glow to arc and warm-up control James K. Skully 2004-01-13 $51,424,000
6653800 Ballast circuit with lamp cathode protection and ballast protection 2003-11-25 $41,541,000
6459214 High frequency/high power factor inverter circuit with combination cathode heating Melvin Cosby, James K. Skully 2002-10-01 $47,424,000
6417631 Integrated bridge inverter circuit for discharge lighting Louis R. Nerone, James K. Skully 2002-07-09 $46,704,000
6411524 Dual planar printed wiring board for compact fluorescent lamp James K. Skully 2002-06-25 $56,960,000