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Eric Whinnem — 12 Patents

The Boeing: 12 patents #816 of 15,756Top 6%
Whittier, CA: #29 of 578 inventorsTop 6%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Eric Whinnem has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at The Boeing. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in April 2018. Eric Whinnem ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Eric Whinnem in Whittier, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2011.peak 32003: 2 patents20032009: 2 patents20092011: 3 patents20112014: 1 patents20142017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9943889 Hole cleaning apparatus and method Gary A. Lipczynski, Wesley E. Holleman, Daniel Wayne Barnett 2018-04-17 $56,624,000
9643260 Systems and methods for forming an opening in a stack Gary A. Lipczynski, Wesley E. Holleman, William P. Zanteson 2017-05-09 $9,471,000
9545697 Automated hole generation Gary A. Lipczynski, John A. Baumann 2017-01-17 $16,500,000
9539624 Hole cleaning apparatus and method Gary A. Lipczynski, Wesley E. Holleman, Daniel Wayne Barnett 2017-01-10 $18,911,000
8714890 Cutter for drilling and reaming Angelica Davancens 2014-05-06 $16,373,000
8057137 Aligning a machine tool with a target location on a structure Gary A. Lipczynski 2011-11-15 $8,349,000
7914242 Aligning a machine tool with a target location on a structure Gary A. Lipczynski 2011-03-29 $12,773,000
7901165 Aligning a machine tool with a target location on a structure Gary A. Lipczynski 2011-03-08 $11,600,000
7627940 Orbital hole match drilling David Hassan Amirehteshami, Branko Sarh, Angelica Davancens 2009-12-08 $19,875,000
7611314 Aligning a machine tool with a target location on a structure Gary A. Lipczynski 2009-11-03 $20,984,000
6644897 Pneumatic drilling end effector Antonio Martinez, Angelica Davancens, William P. Zanteson 2003-11-11 $36,477,000
6514018 Pneumatic drilling end effector Antonio Martinez, Angelica Davancens, William P. Zanteson 2003-02-04 $38,042,000