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Xiuzhang James Zhang — 27 Patents

GE: 27 patents #851 of 36,430Top 3%
Simpsonville, SC: #46 of 1,013 inventorsTop 5%
South Carolina: #366 of 15,501 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Xiuzhang James Zhang has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in July 2020. Xiuzhang James Zhang ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Xiuzhang James Zhang in Simpsonville, SC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2016.peak 52005: 2 patents20052006: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 5 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 4 patents2020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10704406 Turbomachine blade cooling structure and related methods Jalindar Appa Walunj, Shashwat Swami Jaiswal, Stephen Paul Wassynger 2020-07-07 $13,617,000
10648346 Shroud configurations for turbine rotor blades Kevin Richard Kirtley, Lisa DeBellis 2020-05-12 $14,635,000
10487660 Additively manufactured blade extension with internal features Benjamin Paul Lacy, Kassy Moy Hart 2019-11-26 $17,257,000
10247009 Cooling passage for gas turbine system rotor blade Melbourne James Myers, Stuart Samuel Collins, Camilo Andres Sampayo, Joseph M. Block 2019-04-02 $16,471,000
10196903 Rotor blade cooling circuit Adebukola Oluwaseun Benson, Nicholas Alvin Hogberg 2019-02-05 $13,878,000
10184342 System for cooling seal rails of tip shroud of turbine blade James Tyson Balkcum, III, Ian Darnall Reeves, Joseph Anthony Cotroneo 2019-01-22 $14,601,000
10138735 Turbine airfoil internal core profile Adebukola Oluwaseun Benson, Nicholas Alvin Hogberg, Kenneth Earl Williams 2018-11-27 $14,920,000
10107108 Rotor blade having a flared tip Jeffrey Clarence Jones, Mitchell Allan Merrill 2018-10-23 $22,850,000
10066488 Turbomachine blade with generally radial cooling conduit to wheel space Melbourne James Myers, Camilo Andres Sampayo 2018-09-04 $17,950,000
9995146 Turbine airfoil turbulator arrangement Adebukola Oluwaseun Benson, Nicholas Alvin Hogberg, Gary Michael Itzel, Mitchell Allan Merrill 2018-06-12 $19,573,000
9810072 Rotor blade cooling Zhirui Dong, Jason Adam Neville 2017-11-07 $21,085,000
9759070 Turbine bucket tip shroud Melbourne James Myers, Robert J. Testa, Haiping Wang 2017-09-12 $16,279,000
9708916 Turbine bucket plenum for cooling flows Lisa DeBellis, Haiping Wang 2017-07-18 $14,018,000
9527262 Layered arrangement, hot-gas path component, and process of producing a layered arrangement Haiping Wang 2016-12-27 $15,874,000
9470096 Turbine bucket with notched squealer tip Niraj Kumar Mishra, Murugesan Seerangan, Sachin Kumar Rai 2016-10-18 $13,943,000
9464536 Sealing arrangement for a turbine system and method of sealing between two turbine components Gary Michael Itzel, Ibrahim Sezer 2016-10-11 $18,366,000
9334742 Rotor blade and method for cooling the rotor blade Adebukola Oluwaseun Benson, Zhirui Dong 2016-05-10 $20,337,000
9297262 Cooling structures in the tips of turbine rotor blades Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Anthony Louis Giglio, Brian Peter Arness, Benjamin Paul Lacy 2016-03-29 $26,200,000
9188012 Cooling structures in the tips of turbine rotor blades Benjamin Paul Lacy, Brian Peter Arness 2015-11-17 $28,739,000
9121292 Airfoil and a method for cooling an airfoil platform Stephen Paul Wassynger, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Anthony Louis Giglio 2015-09-01 $20,577,000
9045988 Turbine bucket with squealer tip Niraj Kumar Mishra 2015-06-02 $27,610,000
8657574 System and method for cooling a turbine bucket Sergio Daniel Marques Amaral, Gary Michael Itzel, Camilo Andres Sampayo 2014-02-25 $21,833,000
8434999 Bimetallic spline seal Sergio Daniel Marques Amaral, Gary Michael Itzel 2013-05-07 $30,576,000
8157504 Rotor blades for turbine engines Sergio Daniel Marques Amaral, Michael Sullivan, Gary Michael Itzel, Felipe Roman-Morales, Scott Edmond Ellis 2012-04-17 $21,809,000
6984112 Methods and apparatus for cooling gas turbine rotor blades Olivier Muller, Tahar Bouktir 2006-01-10 $38,377,000