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Thomas G. Herron — 19 Patents

IDIdatech: 16 patents #4 of 33Top 15%
DSDcns Sa: 1 patents #8 of 17Top 50%
SUState Of Oregon Acting By And Through The State Board Of Higher Ed. On Behalf Of Oregon State Univ.: 1 patents #105 of 338Top 35%
Eureka, CA: #2 of 69 inventorsTop 3%
California: #31,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Thomas G. Herron has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Idatech. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in May 2014. Thomas G. Herron ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Thomas G. Herron in Eureka, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2002.peak 31999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents2002: 3 patents20022004: 1 patents2005: 2 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 1 patents20072010: 3 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8728676 System and method for optimizing fuel cell purge cycles — 2014-05-20
8563188 Fuel cell system controller David J. Edlund, Craig F. Holmes 2013-10-22
8133626 Fuel cell system controller David J. Edlund, Craig F. Holmes 2012-03-13
7971449 Heat-activated heat-pump systems including integrated expander/compressor and regenerator Richard B. Peterson, Monte K. Drost 2011-07-05
7939211 System and method for controlling the operation of a fuel processing system David J. Edlund, William A. Pledger 2011-05-10
7846569 Methods for operating a fuel cell system under reduced load conditions David J. Edlund, Craig F. Holmes 2010-12-07
7771882 System and method for controlling the operation of a fuel processing system David J. Edlund, William A. Pledger 2010-08-10
7655332 System and method for optimizing fuel cell purge cycles — 2010-02-02
7208241 System and method for controlling the operation of a fuel processing system David J. Edlund, William A. Pledger 2007-04-24
7135048 Volatile feedstock delivery system and fuel processing system incorporating the same David J. Edlund 2006-11-14
7005113 Steam reforming method and apparatus incorporating a hydrocarbon feedstock David J. Edlund 2006-02-28
6979507 Fuel cell system controller David J. Edlund, Craig F. Holmes 2005-12-27
6887605 System and method for optimizing fuel cell purge cycles — 2005-05-03
6811908 System and method for controlling the operation of a fuel processing system David J. Edlund, William A. Pledger 2004-11-02
6495277 Fuel cell system controller David J. Edlund, Craig F. Holmes 2002-12-17
6383670 System and method for controlling the operation of a fuel processing system David J. Edlund, William A. Pledger 2002-05-07
6375906 Steam reforming method and apparatus incorporating a hydrocarbon feedstock David J. Edlund 2002-04-23
6242120 System and method for optimizing fuel cell purge cycles — 2001-06-05
5879826 Proton exchange membrane fuel cell Peter A. Lehman, Charles E. Chamberlin, Ronald M. Reid 1999-03-09

Frequent Collaborators

David J. Edlund13 shared
Craig F. Holmes5 shared
William A. Pledger5 shared
Richard B. Peterson1 shared
Monte K. Drost1 shared
Charles E. Chamberlin1 shared

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