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William Walston — 33 Patents

GE: 32 patents #636 of 36,430Top 2%
Maineville, OH: #14 of 270 inventorsTop 6%
Ohio: #1,524 of 73,341 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
William Walston has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in March 2011. William Walston ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list William Walston in Maineville, OH, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7910173 Thermal barrier coating and process therefor Irene Spitsberg, Brett Allen Boutwell, Robert William Bruce, Curtis Alan Johnson, Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj +3 more 2011-03-22 $23,935,000
7597966 Thermal barrier coating and process therefor Irene Spitsberg, Brett Allen Boutwell, Robert William Bruce, Curtis Alan Johnson, Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj 2009-10-06 $103,924,000
7510779 Low-sulfur article having a platinum aluminide protective layer and its preparation Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Wendy H. Murphy 2009-03-31 $61,912,000
7288328 Superalloy article having a gamma-prime nickel aluminide coating Ramgopal Darolia 2007-10-30 $65,915,000
7264888 Coating systems containing gamma-prime nickel aluminide coating Ramgopal Darolia, Joseph David Rigney 2007-09-04 $64,686,000
7026011 Aluminide coating of gas turbine engine blade Roger Dale Wustman, Matthew Saylor, Brian Harvey Pilsner, Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner 2006-04-11 $50,996,000
6974637 Ni-base superalloy having a thermal barrier coating system Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner, Deborah Schorr, Ramgopal Darolia, Joseph David Rigney, Irene Spitsberg 2005-12-13 $45,952,000
6969558 Low sulfur article having a platinum-aluminide protective layer, and its preparation Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Wendy H. Murphy 2005-11-29 $29,559,000
6929825 Method for aluminide coating of gas turbine engine blade Roger Dale Wustman, Matthew Saylor, Brian Harvey Pilsner, Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner 2005-08-16 $40,619,000
6926928 Protection of a gas turbine component by a vapor-deposited oxide coating John Frederick Ackerman, Joseph Aloysius Heaney, Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj, James Hahn, Michael James Weimer +1 more 2005-08-09 $47,407,000
6905559 Nickel-base superalloy composition and its use in single-crystal articles Kevin S. O'Hara, Charles Gitahi Mukira, Melvin Robert Jackson 2005-06-14 $33,388,000
6905730 Aluminide coating of turbine engine component John Frederick Ackerman, Michael James Weimer, Joseph Aloysius Heaney, Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj 2005-06-14 $33,388,000
6887589 Nickel aluminide coating and coating systems formed therewith Ramgopal Darolia, Joseph David Rigney, Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner, Brett Allen Boutwell, Irene Spitsberg +1 more 2005-05-03 $24,103,000
6844086 Nickel-base superalloy article substrate having aluminide coating thereon, and its fabrication Theodore Robert Grossman, Ronald Gustav Rajala, Dwayne E. Burnett, Wendy Howard Murpjy 2005-01-18 $35,809,000
6843861 Method for preventing the formation of secondary reaction zone in susceptible articles, and articles prepared by the method Theodore Robert Grossman, Ronald Gustav Rajala, Dwayne E. Burnett, Wendy Howard Murpjy 2005-01-18 $35,809,000
6797408 Low-sulfur article having a platinum-aluminide protective layer, and its preparation Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Wendy H. Murphy 2004-09-28 $53,036,000
6656533 Low-sulfur article having a platinum-aluminide protective layer, and its preparation Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Wendy H. Murphy 2003-12-02
6582772 Method for preparing an article with a hafnium-silicon-modified platinum-aluminide bond or environmental coating Joseph David Rigney, Ramgopal Darolia 2003-06-24 $47,950,000
6551423 Preparation of low-sulfur platinum and platinum aluminide layers in thermal barrier coatings Irene Spitsberg, Jon Conrad Schaeffer 2003-04-22 $55,231,000
6514629 Article with hafnium-silicon-modified platinum-aluminum bond or environmental coating Joseph David Rigney, Ramgopal Darolia 2003-02-04 $73,993,000
6502304 Turbine airfoil process sequencing for optimized tip performance Joseph David Rigney, Richard John Grylls 2003-01-07 $48,908,000
6468367 Superalloy weld composition and repaired turbine engine component Charles Gitahi Mukira, Melvin Robert Jackson, Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Thomas Froats Broderick 2002-10-22 $51,300,000
6447932 Substrate stabilization of superalloys protected by an aluminum-rich coating Kevin S. O'Hara, Jon Conrad Schaeffer 2002-09-10 $66,452,000
6444057 Compositions and single-crystal articles of hafnium-modified and/or zirconium-modified nickel-base superalloys Ramgopal Darolia, Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner 2002-09-03 $53,463,000
6333121 Low-sulfur article having a platinum-aluminide protective layer and its preparation Jon Conrad Schaeffer, Wendy H. Murphy 2001-12-25