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William D. Richards — 52 Patents

GE: 10 patents #3,367 of 36,430Top 10%
MIT: 9 patents #453 of 9,367Top 5%
Samsung: 8 patents #16,180 of 75,807Top 25%
OPOphthalmic Ventures Limited Partnership: 8 patents #1 of 4Top 25%
AOAmerican Optical: 6 patents #4 of 106Top 4%
SBSabic Innovative Plastics B.V.: 5 patents #104 of 817Top 15%
UNUnknown: 3 patents #7,366 of 83,584Top 9%
University of California: 3 patents #2,984 of 18,278Top 20%
VAVestas Wind Systems A/S: 3 patents #254 of 1,023Top 25%
AMAcufex Microsurgical: 1 patents #15 of 21Top 75%
GSGrieshaber & Co. Ag Schaffhausen: 1 patents #9 of 15Top 60%
RHRheometrics: 1 patents #5 of 10Top 50%
UEUS Dept of Energy: 1 patents #1,355 of 5,099Top 30%
Cambridge, MA: #126 of 8,183 inventorsTop 2%
Massachusetts: #1,132 of 88,656 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
William D. Richards has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in February 2023. William D. Richards ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list William D. Richards in Cambridge, MA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11579039 Torsional testing of a wind turbine blade Pierre-Emmanuel Verrien, Michael Hogan Dann 2023-02-14
11335949 Battery including a sulfide barrier coating Lincoln Miara, Naoki Suzuki, Yan Wang, Jae-Chul Kim, Gerbrand Ceder 2022-05-17
11119000 Fatigue testing of a wind turbine blade Katherine Penn, Guy Stuart, Pierre-Emmanuel Verrien 2021-09-14
11108080 Lithium and sodium solid-state electrolyte materials Yan Wang, Lincoln Miara, Gerbrand Ceder 2021-08-31
10978706 Cation-disordered rocksalt lithium metal oxides and oxyfluorides and methods of making same Gerbrand Ceder, HuiWen JI, Zhengyan Lun, Daniil KITCHAEV 2021-04-13
10930927 Positive electrode active material, methods for the manufacture thereof, and electrochemical cell comprising the positive electrode active material Lincoln Miara, Yan Wang, Tomoyuki Tsujimura, Yuichi Aihara, Gerbrand Ceder 2021-02-23
10566653 Lithium sulfur nitrogen compound for anode barrier coating or solid electrolyte Lincoln Miara, Naoki Suzuki, Yan Wang, Jae-Chul Kim, Gerbrand Ceder 2020-02-18
10446872 Solid electrolyte and lithium battery including the same Gerbrand Ceder, Jaechul Kim, Lincoln Miara, Tomoyuki Tsujimura, Yan Wang +1 more 2019-10-15
10324138 Computing system for identification of solid-solid interphase products Lincoln Miara, Yan Wang, Jae-Chul Kim, Gerbrand Ceder 2019-06-18
10209160 Fatigue testing of a wind turbine blade Stuart Guy, Malcolm Barnsley 2019-02-19
10177406 Solid electrolyte and/or electroactive material Lincoln Miara, Yan Wang, Jae-Chul Kim, Gerbrand Ceder 2019-01-08
9966629 Sodium-conducting solid electrolyte Shyue Ping Ong, Yifei Mo, Gerbrand Ceder, Lincoln Miara, Tomoyuki Tsujimura +4 more 2018-05-08
9904772 Screening solid state ionic conductors for high ionic conductivity Lincoln Miara, Shyue Ping Ong, Yifei Mo, Gerbrand Ceder 2018-02-27
8808944 Method for storing holographic data Brian Lee Lawrence, Marc Dubois, Eugene Pauling Boden, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Azar Alizadeh +1 more 2014-08-19 $18,053,000
7649073 Polycarbonate-poly(alkylene oxide) copolymer compositions and articles formed therefrom Gary Charles Davis, Dibakar Dhara, Sarah Elizabeth Genovese, Katherine Glasgow, Gautam Madan +2 more 2010-01-19
7642315 Polycarbonate-poly(alkylene oxide) copolymer compositions and articles formed therefrom Gary Charles Davis, Dibakar Dhara, Sarah Elizabeth Genovese, Katherine Glasgow, Jennifer Kübel +2 more 2010-01-05
7605222 Copolyetherimides Qing Ye, David Bruce Hall, Daniel J. Brunelle, Havva Acar 2009-10-20
7528214 Methods for preparing transparent articles from hydroquinone polycarbonate copolymers Gautam Chatterjee, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Warren William Reilly, Subash Scindia, Gokul Srinivasan +1 more 2009-05-05
7481959 Method for controlling haze in an article comprising a polymer composition Farid Fouad Khouri, Thomas Link Guggenheim 2009-01-27
6849706 Copolyetherimides Daniel J. Brunelle, Havva Acar, Farid Fouad Khouri 2005-02-01 $33,832,000
6352654 Conductive polyphenylene ether-polyamide compositions and method for their preparation Norberto Silvi, William R. Haaf, Mark Howard Giammattei, Robert Hossan, Thomas J. Stanley 2002-03-05 $102,708,000
6300405 Polyester molding composition Bret Ja Chisholm 2001-10-09 $100,290,000
6171523 Conductive polyphenylene ether-polyamide compositions and methods for their preparation Norberto Silvi, William R. Haaf, Mark Howard Giammattei, Robert Hossan, Thomas J. Stanley 2001-01-09 $160,716,000
6066694 Polyester molding composition Bret Ja Chisholm, Robert R. Gallucci, William P. England, Patricia A. Hubbard, Jenny Z. Bu 2000-05-23 $177,270,000
5843340 Method for the preparation of conductive polyphenylene ether-polyamide compositions Norberto Silvi, William R. Haaf, Mark Howard Giammattei, Robert Hossan, Thomas J. Stanley 1998-12-01 $62,593,000