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Donald E. Erickson — 52 Patents

WHWhirlpool: 44 patents #49 of 3,654Top 2%
MAMaytag: 7 patents #75 of 601Top 15%
Stevensville, MI: #10 of 246 inventorsTop 5%
Michigan: #872 of 86,293 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
Donald E. Erickson has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at Whirlpool. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in October 2025. Donald E. Erickson ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Donald E. Erickson in Stevensville, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2017.peak 61987: 1 patents19871988: 1 patents1992: 1 patents19921999: 2 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092014: 1 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 6 patents20172018: 6 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 5 patents2021: 5 patents20212022: 4 patents2023: 4 patents20232024: 4 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12448717 Laundry appliance with a deflector Darryl C. Bodine, Gregg P. Fitzgerald, Stephen D. Ostdiek, Manfred W. Schmidt, Todd J. Tunzi 2025-10-21
12215451 Laundry appliance Darryl C. Bodine, Gregg P. Fitzgerald, Eric A. Hill, Patrick A. McCormick, Stephen D. Ostdiek +5 more 2025-02-04
12146256 Fabric cleaning appliance with performance enhancement selector Amberdeep S. Aurora, Michael J. Bauman, SARAH E. IHNE, Nicholas Leep, Karl David McAllister +2 more 2024-11-19 $7,598,000
12018423 User interface solutions for accessing appliance control through cosmetic outer cabinet Kevin B. Ayers, Seth E. Bixby, Eric A. Hill, Dennis Kehl, Andrew C. Kubasiak +2 more 2024-06-25 $4,460,000
11946186 Laundry appliance with a deflector Darryl C. Bodine, Gregg P. Fitzgerald, Stephen D. Ostdiek, Marcel Schmidt, Todd J. Tunzi 2024-04-02 $5,692,000
11932979 Laundry treating appliance having a removable clothes mover Jonathan A. Andrejczuk, Adam Gary, Philip J. Czarnecki, Benjamin D. Lowell, Sayer J. Murphy +9 more 2024-03-19 $11,092,000
11795598 Laundry treating appliance with dynamic balancer Mark R. Haslanger, Stephen D. Ostdiek, Jaime E. Rodriguez 2023-10-24 $5,587,000
11725326 Fabric cleaning appliance with performance enhancement selector Amberdeep S. Aurora, Michael J. Bauman, SARAH E. IHNE, Nicholas Leep, Karl David McAllister +2 more 2023-08-15 $2,403,000
11708656 Laundry treating appliance Steven Fricke, CHRISTIAN GIANNI, Thomas Kessler, Praveen Poojary, Erica L. Roberts +2 more 2023-07-25 $5,546,000
11655582 Laundry appliance having an ultrasonic drying mechanism Mark J. Christensen, Jordan M. Grider, Alexander Halbleib, Christopher A. Hartnett, Christopher A. Jones +3 more 2023-05-23 $6,437,000
11512421 Laundry treating appliance Steven Fricke, CHRISTIAN GIANNI, Thomas Kessler, Praveen Poojary, Erica L. Roberts +2 more 2022-11-29 $27,420,000
11434594 Laundry appliance Darryl C. Bodine, Gregg P. Fitzgerald, Andrew C. Kubasiak, Patrick A. McCormick, Stephen D. Ostdiek +4 more 2022-09-06 $5,031,000
11242636 Laundry treating appliance with dynamic balancer Mark R. Haslanger, Stephen D. Ostdiek, Jaime E. Rodriguez 2022-02-08 $3,063,000
11236458 Laundry treating appliance Douglas Mikkelsen, Christoph J. Miller, Eric J. Walsh 2022-02-01 $6,478,000
11208750 Laundry appliance with a deflector Darryl C. Bodine, Gregg P. Fitzgerald, Stephen D. Ostdiek, Marcel Schmidt, Todd J. Tunzi 2021-12-28 $43,142,000
11203834 Laundry appliance having an ultrasonic drying mechanism Mark J. Christensen, Jordan M. Grider, Alexander Halbleib, Christopher A. Hartnett, Christopher A. Jones +3 more 2021-12-21 $39,831,000
11193229 User interface solutions for accessing appliance control through cosmetic outer cabinet Kevin B. Ayers, Seth E. Bixby, Eric A. Hill, Dennis Kehl, Andrew C. Kubasiak +2 more 2021-12-07 $19,692,000
10988881 Fabric cleaning appliance with performance enhancement selector Amberdeep S. Aurora, Michael J. Bauman, SARAH E. IHNE, Nicholas Leep, Karl David McAllister +2 more 2021-04-27 $12,280,000
10907290 Laundry treating appliance Steven Fricke, CHRISTIAN GIANNI, Thomas Kessler, Praveen Poojary, Erica L. Roberts +2 more 2021-02-02 $3,781,000
10774453 Laundry treating appliance with a static tub and a water trap vapor seal Brenner M. Sharp 2020-09-15 $13,647,000
10704189 Laundry appliance having an ultrasonic drying mechanism Mark J. Christensen, Jordan M. Grider, Alexander Halbleib, Christopher A. Hartnett, Christopher A. Jones +3 more 2020-07-07 $8,157,000
10676851 Laundry treating appliance with liquid dam George Wallace Rodrigues Malheiros, Christoph J. Miller 2020-06-09 $9,908,000
10590585 Laundry treating appliance with dynamic balancer Mark R. Haslanger, Stephen D. Ostdiek, Jaime E. Rodriguez 2020-03-17 $5,452,000
10585407 Home appliance and method of operating a home appliance Darryl C. Bodine, MICHELLE K. FLACHS, TERRY K. LITAKER, CHRIS W. PARASKEVOPOULOS, Scott Alan Albright +1 more 2020-03-10 $6,034,000
10373770 Laundry treating appliance and method of operation for a laundry treating appliance Darryl C. Bodine, MICHELLE K. FLACHS, TERRY K. LITAKER, CHRIS W. PARASKEVOPOULOS, Scott Alan Albright +1 more 2019-08-06 $7,339,000