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Werner Gerhard Barton — 21 Patents

GE: 21 patents #1,273 of 36,430Top 4%
Salzbergen, DE: #2 of 33 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Werner Gerhard Barton has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in August 2025. Werner Gerhard Barton ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Werner Gerhard Barton in Salzbergen, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2025.peak 42009: 3 patents20092011: 1 patents2013: 2 patents20132016: 2 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12381497 Method for operating a power supply system that supplies power to a grid to maintain stator current occurring at a harmonic frequency below a threshold value Kapil Jha, Pushkar Chandrakant Chaudhari, Parag Rameshchandra Dharmadhikari, Prasun Mishra, Sonam Acharya 2025-08-05
12297812 System and method for reducing farm-level power oscillations in the grid induced by a wind farm Till Hoffmann, Enno Ubben 2025-05-13
12301005 System and method for controlling an active harmonic filter in an inverter-based resource Pushkar Chandrakant Chaudhari, Kapil Jha, Robert Gregory Wagoner, Saurabh Shukla, Arvind Kumar Tiwari 2025-05-13
12215673 System comprising a structure being prone to lightning strikes and icing, a method for operating the system and a wind turbine comprising the system Parag Rameshchandra Dharmadhikari, Stephan Klümper, Victor Miranda 2025-02-04
12078151 Wind turbine and method of operating a wind turbine Parag Rameshchandra Dharmadhikari 2024-09-03
11552584 System and methods to address tower damping in a grid forming power generating asset Veena Padmarao, Kapil Jha, Subbarao Tatikonda, Arvind Kumar Tiwari, Vaidhya Nath Venkitanarayanan +1 more 2023-01-10
11456645 System and method for operating an asynchronous inverter-based resource as a virtual synchronous machine with storage Shan Shine, Kapil Jha, Veena Padmarao, Arvind Kumar Tiwari, Subbarao Tatikonda 2022-09-27
10865773 System and method for mitigating flicker in a power grid from a wind turbine power system David Smith 2020-12-15 $54,885,000
10294920 Wind turbine and method for operating a wind turbine Hartmut Scholte-Wassink, Christoph Wolters 2019-05-21 $26,905,000
10054108 Wind turbine system and method for controlling a wind turbine system by power monitoring Hartmut Scholte-Wassink 2018-08-21 $19,667,000
9893563 System and method for operating a wind turbine Till Hoffmann, Hartmut Scholte-Wassink 2018-02-13 $14,939,000
9828971 System and method for optimizing wind turbine operation Igor Berroteran Gil, Anthony Michael Klodowski 2017-11-28 $23,205,000
9745957 System and method for initializing a startup sequence of a wind turbine Robert Allen Seymour, Anthony Michael Klodowski, David Smith, Igor Berroteran Gil 2017-08-29 $10,492,000
9494139 System and method for controlling a power output of a wind turbine generator Carsten Junge, Stephan Wachtel, Michael Ginzburg 2016-11-15 $28,580,000
9458831 Determining reactive power capability of a renewable energy system Enno Ubben, Carsten Junge, Arnim Smolenski 2016-10-04 $28,885,000
8405251 Method and apparatus for reduction of harmonics in a power supply Andre Langel 2013-03-26 $18,336,000
8366396 Unit for cable management and wind turbine Johannes Schulz 2013-02-05 $20,690,000
7944068 Optimizing converter protection for wind turbine generators Robert Gregory Wagoner, Allen Michael Ritter, Anthony Michael Klodowski, Scott Charles Frame, Steven Wade Sutherland +1 more 2011-05-17 $24,694,000
7605487 Method for operating a frequency converter of a generator and wind energy turbine having a generator operated according to the method Andreas Buecker 2009-10-20 $53,289,000
7586206 Wind turbine and method for operating same Wilhelm Janssen, Robert William Delmerico, Nicholas Wright Miller 2009-09-08 $122,162,000
7504738 Wind turbine and method for operating same Wilhelm Janssen, Robert William Delmerico, Nicholas Wright Miller 2009-03-17 $78,950,000