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Devin R. Hess — 12 Patents

General Motors: 12 patents #1,261 of 18,328Top 7%
Clarkston, MI: #68 of 750 inventorsTop 10%
Michigan: #7,722 of 86,293 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Devin R. Hess has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at General Motors. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in May 2025. Devin R. Hess ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Devin R. Hess in Clarkston, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2024.peak 32014: 1 patents20142016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents20182022: 2 patents20222023: 1 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12312656 Method for production of graphene composite components having enhanced thermal conductivity Yi Liu, Qigui Wang, Ronald C. Daul 2025-05-27
12276010 Aluminum alloy for high pressure die casting of ultra-large vehicle body structures Qigui Wang, Liang Wang, Daniel J. Wilson, Dale A. Gerard, Paul J. Boone 2025-04-15
12241431 Laser hardened pattern array in cylinder bores Yi Liu, Qigui Wang, Richard L. Metcalf, Angela Zsidi Alksninis, Purushotham Kunduru +1 more 2025-03-04
12172210 System of high-pressure die casting of ultra-large aluminum castings Qigui Wang, Liang Wang, Daniel J. Wilson, Dale A. Gerard, Paul J. Boone 2024-12-24 $21,753,000
12097555 Repair ultra-large casting Daniel J. Wilson, Liang Wang, Qigui Wang, Michelle Wood, Ronald C. Daul +1 more 2024-09-24 $29,572,000
12097583 Method of in-situ repair of an ultra-large single-piece casting Daniel J. Wilson, Liang Wang, Qigui Wang, Michelle Wood, Ali Shabbir +3 more 2024-09-24 $29,572,000
11639672 Valve seat for automotive cylinder head Daniel J. Wilson, Huaxin Li, Edward J. Keating, Liang Wang 2023-05-02 $27,843,000
11473456 Cylinder head valve seat with high thermal conductivity and multiple material cross-section Qigui Wang, Jeffrey B. Harris, Herbert W. Doty, Dale A. Gerard 2022-10-18 $23,706,000
11326485 Method of manufacture and design of cast-in-place valve seats Qigui Wang, Thomas W. Gustafson, Dale A. Gerard 2022-05-10 $21,624,000
9981310 Degassing and microstructure refinement of shape casting aluminum alloys Qigui Wang, Jason R. Traub, Christopher D. Cogan, Andrew J. Genualdi 2018-05-29 $13,079,000
9500594 Method for automatic quantification of dendrite arm spacing in dendritic microstructures Qigui Wang, James W. Knight 2016-11-22 $12,431,000
8672018 Cylinder head and method Gerald Francis Johnson 2014-03-18 $7,239,000