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Blair E. Carlson — 77 Patents

General Motors: 76 patents #70 of 18,328Top 1%
SASaab Automobile Ab: 2 patents #9 of 84Top 15%
Delphi Technologies: 1 patents #2,130 of 4,124Top 55%
Northwestern University: 1 patents #1,629 of 3,846Top 45%
UTUt-Battelle: 1 patents #807 of 1,792Top 50%
Ann Arbor, MI: #54 of 6,071 inventorsTop 1%
Michigan: #402 of 86,293 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #24,274 of 4,157,543Top 1%
77 Patents All Time
Blair E. Carlson has been granted 77 US patents while listed as an inventor at General Motors. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in August 2025. Blair E. Carlson ranks #24,274 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.58%). Patent records list Blair E. Carlson in Ann Arbor, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 15 patents in 2019.peak 152002: 1 patents20022004: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112013: 4 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 7 patents20182019: 15 patents2020: 15 patents20202021: 9 patents2022: 6 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 77 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12384045 Supplemental and targeted heating of vehicle body-in-white interior components/areas for paint ovens Wayne W. Cai, Hua Fan, Jennifer Therese BRACEY, Mark E. Baylis, Kenneth W. McLean +2 more 2025-08-12
12358174 Ultrasonic pre-surface and post-surface processing for laser brazing and laser welding Guangze Li, Hui Wang, Michael G. Poss, Ping Guo 2025-07-15
12345696 Methods for inspection of press-hardening steel surfaces prior to spot-welding for improved welding quality Hassan Ghassemi-Armaki, Zhenke Teng, Jason M. Brown 2025-07-01
12226816 Systems and methods for spingback compensation in bend forming processes Lu Huang, Hui Wang, Bradley J. Blaski, Joshua Lee Solomon 2025-02-18
12073555 Inspection of reflective surfaces based on image correlation Zerun Ma, Guangze Li, Hui Wang, Yan Cai 2024-08-27 $36,856,000
12023757 Air management system for laser welding with airflow optimizing deflector Joshua Lee Solomon, Kuo-huey Chen, Baixuan Yang, Ahmed Alkhafaji 2024-07-02 $22,015,000
11701738 Laser welded assembly having a heat affected zone reinforcement and method of making the same Nannan Chen, Joshua Lee Solomon, Hui Wang, Zixuan Wan, Paulina G. Torres Guzman 2023-07-18 $32,453,000
11534972 Post-build quick powder removal system for powder bed fusion additive manufacturing Richard J. Skurkis, Whitney A. Poling, Mark A. Smith, Tyson W. Brown, Md Ashabul Anam +1 more 2022-12-27 $34,059,000
11524358 Mechanical performance of al-steel weld joints David R. Sigler, Amberlee S. Haselhuhn, Michael J. Karagoulis 2022-12-13 $28,350,000
11389828 Additive energy director and method of formation Saul S. Lee, Yongqiang Li, Jorge F. Arinez 2022-07-19 $30,299,000
11358330 Filament deposition head and method of depositing filament material for joining workpieces Ryan Gergely, David A. Okonski, William R. Rodgers, James W. Wells 2022-06-14 $22,466,000
11358328 Composite fusion filament David A. Okonski, Ryan Gergely, William R. Rodgers 2022-06-14 $22,466,000
11288424 Adaptive time scaling for accelerating explicit finite element analysis Jian Chen, Hui Huang, Zhili Feng, Hui Wang, Wayne W. Cai 2022-03-29 $70,767,000
11132986 Tailored panel assembly and method of manufacturing the same Anil K. Sachdev, Raja K. Mishra, Jon T. Carter, Tyson W. Brown, David R. Sigler +2 more 2021-09-28 $43,266,000
11123816 Aluminum alloy to steel welding process David R. Sigler, James G. Schroth, Yelena Myasnikova, David Yang 2021-09-21 $47,256,000
11084119 Electrode for resistance spot welding of dissimilar materials David Yang, David R. Sigler, James G. Schroth, Michael J. Karagoulis 2021-08-10 $44,234,000
11065710 Resistance spot welding workpiece stack-ups having a steel workpiece and an aluminum workpiece with a steel plate David R. Sigler, Charles E. Jensen 2021-07-20 $45,993,000
11007713 High throughput additive manufacturing system John Patrick Spicer, Jason J. Nolte, Thomas A. Perry, Anil K. Sachdev, HyungMin Chae +1 more 2021-05-18 $66,558,000
10981243 Multi-step direct welding of an aluminum-based workpiece to a steel workpiece David R. Sigler, Yelena Myasnikova, Michael J. Karagoulis 2021-04-20 $26,620,000
10981244 Resistance welding electrode Hui Wang, David R. Sigler, Amberlee S. Haselhuhn, Michael J. Karagoulis 2021-04-20 $26,620,000
10953497 Method for laser welding steel workpieces Hui Wang, Yu Pan, Joshua Lee Solomon, William P. Payne, David Yang +1 more 2021-03-23 $44,996,000
10933590 Joining thermoplastic workpieces with induction heating Ryan Gergely, David A. Okonski 2021-03-02 $71,308,000
10857618 Improving mechanical performance of Al-steel weld joints by limiting steel sheet deformation David R. Sigler, Amberlee S. Haselhuhn 2020-12-08 $39,095,000
10857619 Control of intermetallic compound growth in aluminum to steel resistance welding Tyson W. Brown, David R. Sigler, Amberlee S. Haselhuhn 2020-12-08 $39,095,000
10766095 Mating electrodes for resistance spot welding of aluminum workpieces to steel workpieces Hui Wang, David R. Sigler, Michael J. Karagoulis 2020-09-08 $42,078,000