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Timothy John Sommerer

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40 Patents All Time

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Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11482394 Bidirectional gas discharge tube Joseph Darryl Michael, David J. Smith 2022-10-25
11415080 Engine for an aircraft Nicholas William Rathay, Narendra Digamber Joshi, Venkat Eswarlu Tangirala 2022-08-16
11267551 System and method for cooling a leading edge of a high speed vehicle Nicholas William Rathay, Narendra Digamber Joshi, Douglas Carl Hofer, Hongbo Cao 2022-03-08
11260953 System and method for cooling a leading edge of a high speed vehicle Nicholas William Rathay, Brian Magann Rush, Narendra Digamber Joshi, Gregory Alexander Natsui, Brian Gene Brzek +1 more 2022-03-01
11251598 Gas discharge tube DC circuit breaker Joseph Darryl Michael, David J. Smith 2022-02-15
10995672 Electrical waveform for gas turbine igniter Badri Narayan Ramamurthi, Karim Younsi, Andrey Meshkov, Jason Fredrick Trotter, Ramanujam Ramabhadran +3 more 2021-05-04
10914274 Fuel oxygen reduction unit with plasma reactor Ethan Patrick O'Connor, Christian Xavier Stevenson 2021-02-09
10916919 Krypton-85-free spark gap with a discharge probe Joseph Darryl Michael, Jason Fredrick Trotter, Mohamed Rahmane, Karim Younsi 2021-02-09
10665402 High voltage, cross-field, gas switch and method of operation Joseph Darryl Michael 2020-05-26
10580610 Cold cathode switching device and converter Joseph Darryl Michael, David J. Smith, Sergey Zalubovsky 2020-03-03
10403466 Low sputtering, cross-field, gas switch and method of operation Svetlana Selezneva 2019-09-03
10256067 Low voltage drop, cross-field, gas switch and method of operation David J. Smith, Joseph Darryl Michael, Steven C. Aceto, Kirk Ernest Marquard, Jason Fredrick Trotter +2 more 2019-04-09
10103519 Krypton-85-free spark gap with photo-emission Joseph Darryl Michael, Jason Frederick Trotter, Mohamed Rahmane, Karim Younsi 2018-10-16
10096999 Gas tube-switched flexible alternating current transmission system Xu She, James William Bray, Rahul Shantilal Chokhawala 2018-10-09
9973092 Gas tube-switched high voltage DC power converter Xu She, James William Bray, Rahul Shantilal Chokhawala 2018-05-15
9913359 Krypton-85-free spark gap with cantilevered component Joseph Darryl Michael, Karim Younsi, Mohamed Rahmane 2018-03-06
9806501 Spark gap with triple-point electron emission prompting 2017-10-31
9748857 Method and system for a gas tube-based current source high voltage direct current transmission system Xu She, Rahul Shantilal Chokhawala, James William Bray, Rui Zhou, Di Zhang 2017-08-29
9608144 Photovoltaic devices and method of making James Neil Johnson, Bastiaan Arie Korevaar 2017-03-28
9520801 Method and system for a gas tube switch-based voltage source high voltage direct current transmission system Xu She, Rahul Shantilal Chokhawala, Rui Zhou, Di Zhang, James William Bray 2016-12-13
8044567 Light source incorporating a high temperature ceramic composite and gas phase for selective emission Peter Joel Meschter, Vikas Midha, William Paul Minnear, David J. Bryan 2011-10-25
7944148 Mercury free tin halide compositions and radiation sources incorporating same David J. Smith, Joseph Darryl Michael 2011-05-17
7892061 Hermetical lamp sealing techniques and lamp having uniquely sealed components Bernard Patrick Bewlay, James Anthony Brewer, Sylvain Coulombe, Sylvia Marie DeCarr, Luana Emiliana Iorio +2 more 2011-02-22
7893617 Metal electrodes for electric plasma discharge devices David J. Smith 2011-02-22
7851985 Article incorporating a high temperature ceramic composite for selective emission Peter Joel Meschter, Vikas Midha, William Paul Minnear, David J. Bryan 2010-12-14