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William E. Holley — 17 Patents

GE: 9 patents #3,767 of 36,430Top 15%
UWU.S. Windpower: 2 patents #2 of 11Top 20%
CTClipper Windpower Technology: 1 patents #7 of 11Top 65%
Greer, SC: #54 of 717 inventorsTop 8%
South Carolina: #759 of 15,501 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
William E. Holley has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in November 2022. William E. Holley ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list William E. Holley in Greer, SC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11511408 Impact hand tool 2022-11-29
11472526 Oar apparatus having a pivoting oar blade 2022-10-18
11358694 Oar apparatus having a pivoting oar blade 2022-06-14
10107261 System and method for reducing oscillation loads of wind turbine Danian Zheng, Xiongzhe Huang, Conner Brooks Shane, Raveendra Penmatsa, Jignesh Gandhi +1 more 2018-10-23 $22,850,000
9341159 Methods for controlling wind turbine loading Arne Koerber, Leonardo Cesar Kammer, Charudatta Subhash Mehendale 2016-05-17 $26,969,000
8803352 Wind turbines and methods for controlling wind turbine loading Arne Koerber, Leonardo Cesar Kammer, Charudatta Subhash Mehendale 2014-08-12 $27,659,000
7581921 Methods and apparatus for controlling rotary machines Bharat Sampathkumaran Bagepalli, Patrick Lee Jansen, Gary Randall Barnes, Thomas Frank Fric, James P. Lyons +2 more 2009-09-01 $86,598,000
7352075 Methods and apparatus for controlling rotational speed of a rotor Lawrence D. Willey, John Cunningham, Eric Gebhardt, Ulrich Uphues, Kirk Gee Pierce 2008-04-01 $64,206,000
7095131 Variable speed wind turbine generator Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman 2006-08-22 $24,978,000
7042110 Variable speed distributed drive train wind turbine system Amir S. Mikhail, Kevin L. Cousineau, Lawrence Howes, William L. Erdman 2006-05-09
6856039 Variable speed wind turbine generator Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman 2005-02-15 $36,957,000
6847128 Variable speed wind turbine generator Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman 2005-01-25 $72,382,000
6600240 Variable speed wind turbine generator Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman 2003-07-29 $89,693,000
6420795 Variable speed wind turbine generator Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman 2002-07-16
6137187 Variable speed wind turbine generator Amir S. Mikhail, Craig L. Christenson, Kevin L. Cousineau, William L. Erdman 2000-10-24
5289041 Speed control system for a variable speed wind turbine 1994-02-22
5155375 Speed control system for a variable speed wind turbine 1992-10-13