WC

Wayne W. Cai

General Motors: 39 patents #245 of 18,328Top 2%
University of Michigan: 2 patents #1,079 of 4,352Top 25%
NS Novellus Systems: 1 patents #479 of 780Top 65%
UT Ut-Battelle: 1 patents #807 of 1,792Top 50%
WARF: 1 patents #1,912 of 4,123Top 50%
Overall (All Time): #78,381 of 4,157,543Top 2%
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Patents All Time

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Showing 25 most recent of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12384045 Supplemental and targeted heating of vehicle body-in-white interior components/areas for paint ovens Hua Fan, Blair E. Carlson, Jennifer Therese BRACEY, Mark E. Baylis, Kenneth W. McLean +2 more 2025-08-12
12136747 Method of making a battery cell including clamping, tapering, trimming and ultrasonic welding of electrode foils Thomas Alumoottil, Jennifer Therese BRACEY, Teresa J. Rinker, Cammi L. Siu 2024-11-05
12005532 Systems, methods, and apparatuses, of an arc welding (AW) process and quality monitoring Debejyo Chakraborty, Miguel Arturo Saez, John Patrick Spicer, Pei-Chung Wang, Spyros P. Mellas +1 more 2024-06-11
11942619 Method of fabricating an electrode for an electrochemical cell Erik Damon Huemiller, Shaomao Xu, Ryan C. Sekol, Michael P. Balogh, Xiaowei Yu 2024-03-26
11554417 Article for producing ultra-fine powders and method of manufacture thereof Zhongyi Liu, Bin Hu, Xiaosong Huang 2023-01-17
11288424 Adaptive time scaling for accelerating explicit finite element analysis Jian Chen, Hui Huang, Zhili Feng, Blair E. Carlson, Hui Wang 2022-03-29
11167381 Clamp system and method for control of welding a first substrate to a second substrate Miguel Arturo Saez, John Patrick Spicer, Spyros P. Mellas, Richard J. Skurkis, Pei-Chung Wang +2 more 2021-11-09
11045897 Method and apparatus to form a workpiece employing vibration welding Teresa J. Rinker, Michael P. Balogh, Nicholas W. Pinto, IV 2021-06-29
10944096 Method of manufacturing a lithium metal negative electrode Fang Dai, Hongliang Wang, Mei Cai, Michael P. Balogh 2021-03-09
10919112 Method and system for manufacturing a lithium metal negative electrode Fang Dai, Hongliang Wang, Mei Cai 2021-02-16
10759006 Method and apparatus for evaluating an ultrasonic weld junction Debejyo Chakraborty, Qian Lin, John M. Moote, Anthony Ottomano, Teresa J. Rinker 2020-09-01
10632571 Metal joining using ultrasonic and reaction metallurgical welding processes Hongliang Wang, Chen Zhou 2020-04-28
10557832 Portable acoustic apparatus for in-situ monitoring of a weld in a workpiece Megan E. McGovern, Jeffrey A. Abell 2020-02-11
10530019 Battery module with resistance-welded senseline tabs and method of manufacturing the same Evan J. Dawley 2020-01-07
10481215 Method and apparatus for evaluating a battery cell Debejyo Chakraborty, Teresa J. Rinker, Megan E. McGovern, Ryan C. Sekol, Diana M. Wegner +1 more 2019-11-19
10249857 Battery bus bar design and laser welding Steven D. Lorentz, Chih-Chang Chen, Nikolay Kondratyev, Roger M. Brisbane 2019-04-02
10241090 Method and apparatus for evaluating an ultrasonic weld junction Debejyo Chakraborty, Qian Lin, John M. Moote, Anthony Ottomano, Teresa J. Rinker 2019-03-26
10191471 Automatic monitoring of the alignment and wear of vibration welding equipment John Patrick Spicer, Debejyo Chakraborty, Keith Mink 2019-01-29
10189118 Method and apparatus for evaluating an ultrasonic weld junction Debejyo Chakraborty, Qian Lin, John M. Moote, Anthony Ottomano, Teresa J. Rinker 2019-01-29
10086587 Sandwich structures including a polymeric/electrically non-conducting core for weldability Steven C. Lang, Nilesh D. Mankame 2018-10-02
9658612 Automatic monitoring of the alignment and wear of vibration welding equipment John Patrick Spicer, Debejyo Chakraborty, Keith Mink 2017-05-23
9618410 Clamp force and alignment checking device John Patrick Spicer, Debejyo Chakraborty, Keith Mink 2017-04-11
9573221 Elimination of tool adhesion in an ultrasonic welding process Michael P. Balogh, Teresa J. Rinker, Thomas J. Chapaton, Peng Lu, Eric G. Hartnagle 2017-02-21
9120186 Method and system for online quality monitoring and control of a vibration welding process Jeffrey A. Abell, Jason C. H. Tang, Michael Anthony Wincek, Paul J. Boor, Paul F. Spacher +1 more 2015-09-01
8894721 Beam welding of a multi-sheet work stack with a single common welding interface Thomas B. Stoughton, Xiang Zhao 2014-11-25