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Robert J. DeGroot — 17 Patents

TGTrinity Rail Group: 6 patents #4 of 49Top 9%
MMModine Manufacturing: 5 patents #57 of 442Top 15%
Motorola Mobility: 3 patents #432 of 2,091Top 25%
Motorola: 3 patents #4,822 of 14,142Top 35%
Cary, IL: #28 of 337 inventorsTop 9%
Illinois: #4,775 of 84,256 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Robert J. DeGroot has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Trinity Rail Group. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in May 2023. Robert J. DeGroot ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Robert J. DeGroot in Cary, IL, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11649744 Capstan-driven air pump system for opening and closing a longitudinal railcar door Kenneth W. Huck 2023-05-16
11608091 System and method for reconfiguring an autorack Kyle R. Coston, David W. Higginbotham 2023-03-21
11600907 Antenna design in the body of a wearable device Katherine Coles, Michael E. Russell, Eric Krenz 2023-03-07 $25,064,000
11318966 System and method for reconfiguring an autorack Kyle R. Coston, Gary V. Turner, David W. Higginbotham 2022-05-03
11305789 System and method for reconfiguring an autorack Kyle R. Coston, David W. Higginbotham 2022-04-19
11233317 Antenna design in the body of a wearable device Katherine Coles, Michael E. Russell, Eric Krenz 2022-01-25 $14,874,000
11014582 System and method for reconfiguring an autorack Kyle R. Coston, Gary V. Turner, David W. Higginbotham 2021-05-25
10700421 Antenna design in the body of a wearable device Katherine Coles, Michael E. Russell, Eric Krenz 2020-06-30 $18,261,000
10576998 System and method for reconfiguring an autorack Kyle R. Coston, David W. Higginbotham 2020-03-03
8794299 2-Pass heat exchanger including thermal expansion joints Robert Barfknecht, Biao Yu, LeRoy Goines, Peter Kottal, Steven P. Meshenky +1 more 2014-08-05 $5,057,000
7441620 Radiator and isolation and mount system Martin J. Riniker, Craig D. Endres, Gregg D. Olson, James R. Prochniak 2008-10-28 $2,414,000
7413006 Header plate for use in a heat exchanger Daniel R. DeRosia, Gregory DaPra 2008-08-19 $5,753,000
7121329 Plastic tanked heat exchanger-side, header tank assembly Thomas Shields, Rachel Olsonawski 2006-10-17 $2,559,000
6446711 Side piece for heat exchangers Michael P. Devine 2002-09-10 $7,022,000
5945964 Multi-band antenna structure for a portable radio James P. Phillips 1999-08-31 $15,455,000
5808586 Side-by-side coil-fed antenna for a portable radio James P. Phillips 1998-09-15 $7,478,000
5608761 Method, device, and radio for compensating for modulator frequency drift while allowing for data transmission George F. Opas 1997-03-04 $16,283,000