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Anna C. Schelling — 48 Patents

WHWhirlpool: 27 patents #125 of 3,654Top 4%
Eastman Kodak: 20 patents #514 of 8,114Top 7%
Stevensville, MI: #14 of 246 inventorsTop 6%
Michigan: #1,001 of 86,293 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #57,596 of 4,157,543Top 2%
48 Patents All Time
Anna C. Schelling has been granted 48 US patents while listed as an inventor at Whirlpool. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in August 2025. Anna C. Schelling ranks #57,596 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Anna C. Schelling in Stevensville, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2019.peak 71995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 4 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 4 patents2001: 4 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 3 patents20032018: 1 patents2019: 7 patents20192020: 5 patents2021: 4 patents20212022: 4 patents2023: 3 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 48 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12378716 Laundry appliance Darryl C. Bodine, Michael A. Ledford, Sayer J. Murphy, Meagan Kathleen VanderVelde 2025-08-05
12215451 Laundry appliance Darryl C. Bodine, Donald E. Erickson, Gregg P. Fitzgerald, Eric A. Hill, Patrick A. McCormick +5 more 2025-02-04
D1044174 Combined laundry treating appliance and pedestal Daniel Polonsky 2024-09-24
11761134 Laundry appliance Darryl C. Bodine, Gregg P. Fitzgerald, Eric A. Hill, Patrick A. McCormick, Stephen D. Ostdiek +3 more 2023-09-19 $8,458,000
11739469 Integrated single dose and bulk dispenser for a laundry treating appliance Kevin B. Ayers, Seth E. Bixby, Richard K. Gresens, Sayer J. Murphy 2023-08-29 $4,864,000
D980809 Push button knob with illumination capabilities for a laundry treating appliance Kevin B. Ayers, Andrew C. Kubasiak, Todd W. Lambkin, Daniel Polonsky 2023-03-14
11434594 Laundry appliance Darryl C. Bodine, Donald E. Erickson, Gregg P. Fitzgerald, Andrew C. Kubasiak, Patrick A. McCormick +4 more 2022-09-06 $5,031,000
D958479 Laundry treating appliance Gregg P. Fitzgerald, Jose Aldo Ramirez, Richard K. Gresens, Seth E. Bixby 2022-07-19
D957766 Fabric care appliance Kevin B. Ayers, Andrew C. Kubasiak, Mark W. Schulz 2022-07-12
11346039 Door assembly for a laundry treating appliance Jun Young Park, Seth E. Bixby, Dario Grasselli, Andrew C. Kubasiak, Giuseppe Netti +3 more 2022-05-31 $12,670,000
D938110 Fabric care appliance Kevin B. Ayers, Andrew C. Kubasiak, Mark W. Schulz 2021-12-07
11105033 Integrated single dose and bulk dispenser for a laundry treating appliance Kevin B. Ayers, Seth E. Bixby, Richard K. Gresens, Sayer J. Murphy 2021-08-31 $48,262,000
D909694 Fabric care appliance Kevin B. Ayers, Andrew C. Kubasiak, Mark W. Schulz 2021-02-02
D909316 Push button knob with illumination capabilities for a laundry treating appliance Kevin B. Ayers, Andrew C. Kubasiak, Todd W. Lambkin, Daniel Polonsky 2021-02-02
D900418 Laundry treating appliance Daniel Polonsky 2020-10-27
D899720 Laundry treating appliance Gregg P. Fitzgerald, Jose Aldo Ramirez, Richard K. Gresens, Seth E. Bixby 2020-10-20
10774462 Laundry treating appliance with separate container Kevin B. Ayers, Seth E. Bixby, Trevor R. Haney, Sayer J. Murphy, Haley K. Rich 2020-09-15 $13,647,000
D877431 User interface Scott T. Thalls, Daniel Polonsky, Richard K. Gresens, Patrick J. Schiavone, Wei Zheng 2020-03-03
D874764 User interface Xuehui Liu, Daniel Polonsky, Wei Zheng 2020-02-04
10494755 Secondary drying chamber for a clothes dryer Timothy E. Heater, Nicholas E. Mawhorr, Lisa M. Pawloski 2019-12-03 $28,498,000
D866887 Pedestal Andrew C. Kubasiak, Jaroslav Ridilla 2019-11-12
D865306 Laundry treating appliance door Daniel Polonsky 2019-10-29
D863237 Push button knob with illumination capabilities for a laundry treating appliance Kevin B. Ayers, Andrew C. Kubasiak, Todd W. Lambkin, Daniel Polonsky 2019-10-15
10422070 Laundry treating appliance and dispenser Seth E. Bixby, Richard K. Gresens, Todd W. Lambkin, Michael R. Mackay, Sayer J. Murphy 2019-09-24 $8,497,000
D848692 Bulk dispensing drawer Joel Aldebaran Salazar, Ndjeka K. Luhahi, Juraj Nestorik 2019-05-14