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William Lee Herron — 32 Patents

GE: 21 patents #1,273 of 36,430Top 4%
TLThe Singer Company Limited: 5 patents #46 of 510Top 10%
TPTrine Products: 3 patents #1 of 8Top 15%
FSFred M. Schildwachter & Sons: 1 patents #4 of 7Top 60%
TTTrine Access Technology: 1 patents #4 of 9Top 45%
Elizabeth, NJ: #3 of 186 inventorsTop 2%
New Jersey: #2,020 of 69,400 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
William Lee Herron has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in September 2013. William Lee Herron ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list William Lee Herron in Elizabeth, NJ, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8536878 Automated sensor specific calibration through sensor parameter download Emad Andarawis Andarawis, Wayne Charles Hasz, David So Keung Chan, David Mulford Shaddock, John Harry Down +5 more 2013-09-17 $16,815,000
8177474 System and method for turbine engine clearance control with rub detection Emad Andarawis Andarawis, Samhita Dasgupta, John Harry Down, Mahadevan Balasubramaniam, David So Keung Chan +1 more 2012-05-15 $13,463,000
8126628 Aircraft gas turbine engine blade tip clearance control John Erik Hershey, Brock Estel Osborn, Donald Lee Gardner, Rafael Ruiz, Sr. 2012-02-28 $15,281,000
8121813 System and method for clearance estimation between two objects Zhiyuan Ren, Wayne Charles Hasz, Emad Andarawis Andarawis, David So Keung Chan, David Mulford Shaddock +5 more 2012-02-21 $16,565,000
8022715 Automated sensor specific calibration through sensor parameter download Emad Andarawis Andarawis, Wayne Charles Hasz, David So Keung Chan, David Mulford Shaddock, John Harry Down +5 more 2011-09-20 $15,956,000
7891938 Multi sensor clearance probe Robert J. Albers, Rafael Ruiz, Sr., Samhita Dasgupta 2011-02-22 $31,851,000
7740443 Transpiration clearance control turbine Kenneth Edward Seitzer, Wojciech Sak, Zhifeng Dong, Robert Paul Ziegler 2010-06-22 $19,229,000
7652489 Multi-range clearance measurement system and method of operation Samhita Dasgupta, Minesh Ashok Shah, Kiyoung Chung, Emad Andarawis Andarawis, Hans Max Ortlepp 2010-01-26 $50,857,000
7577549 System and method for trending exhaust gas temperature in a turbine engine Brock Estel Osborn, John Erik Hershey, Michael Dean Fullington, James Dockendorff, Carl Hansen 2009-08-18 $49,912,000
7431557 Compensating for blade tip clearance deterioration in active clearance control Matthew William Wiseman, Jon Michael Vishnauski, Brian Edward Krupp, Ronald George Maruscik 2008-10-07 $55,413,000
7238008 Turbine blade retainer seal Lawrence Wayne Plemmons, deceased, Robert J. Albers, Melvin Bobo 2007-07-03 $63,432,000
6634685 Electronically-operable door strike with guard clip, springless solenoid and face plate Wolfgang Jaffe, Gary Ferguson, Carlo Frussinetty 2003-10-21
6572337 Turbine rotor torque transmission 2003-06-03 $63,671,000
6527274 Turbine rotor-stator leaf seal and related method Jeffrey John Butkiewicz 2003-03-04 $51,408,000
6343251 Method and system for monitoring the operation of and predicting part life consumption for turbomachinery David R. Germain, Louis Andrew Schick 2002-01-29 $145,178,000
6241471 Turbine bucket tip shroud reinforcement 2001-06-05 $142,245,000
6231287 Rotor windage nut Srihari Balasubramanian, Horst Gunther DeLorenzi, Suryaprakash Ganti 2001-05-15 $99,837,000
6215300 Eddy current wide probe 2001-04-10 $111,168,000
5938023 Tackle box Jerry E. Herron 1999-08-17
5796202 Tie bolt and stacked wheel assembly for the rotor of a rotary machine Frederick Martin Miller, William Gary Klump 1998-08-18 $120,030,000
5654500 Method for determining cyclic service life for rotational parts of a rotary machine Thomas Martini 1997-08-05 $75,514,000
5392812 Offset hinge flapper valve 1995-02-28 $16,992,000
5392202 Low profile illuminated push button 1995-02-21
5136240 Automatically self-adjusting eddy current probe for bolt hole inspection Gerard W. Geier, Charles M. Brouse, Sr. 1992-08-04 $15,057,000
5127691 Strike with rectilinearly movable keeper locking member Wolfgang Jaffe 1992-07-07