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Ryan R. Bellinger — 25 Patents

WHWhirlpool: 23 patents #168 of 3,654Top 5%
Three Rivers, MI: #35 of 578 inventorsTop 7%
Michigan: #2,912 of 86,293 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Ryan R. Bellinger has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Whirlpool. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in November 2025. Ryan R. Bellinger ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Ryan R. Bellinger in Three Rivers, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2013.peak 62012: 3 patents20122013: 6 patents20132014: 3 patents20142015: 3 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents20182023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12473685 Foreign particulate algorithm for a laundry appliance Timothy Noah Blatchley, Mark J. Christensen, Ryan Douglas Kuhn, Wesley Paul Traylor 2025-11-18
12442125 Foreign particulate collector for a laundry appliance Timothy Noah Blatchley, Mark J. Christensen, Ryan Douglas Kuhn, Nolan Robert Maryanski, Wesley Paul Traylor 2025-10-14
12410552 Three-dimensional steam generating system for performing a steam cycle within a laundry appliance Shannon Wynne, Mark J. Christensen 2025-09-09
12055909 Night cycle algorithm for a laundry appliance to minimize operational noise Matthew E. Borgerson 2024-08-06 $6,309,000
11767633 Drying appliance having an accessory port for providing external airflow for powered accessories Seth E. Bixby, Timothy E. Heater, Jacob Charles Ickes, Sayer J. Murphy, Giuseppe Netti +1 more 2023-09-26 $8,453,000
9957653 Laundry treating appliance with tumble pattern control Farhad Ashrafzadeh 2018-05-01 $18,344,000
9765463 Laundry treating appliance with tumble pattern control Farhad Ashrafzadeh 2017-09-19 $6,707,000
9593442 Method to control a drying cycle of a laundry treating appliance David J. Kmet, Peter J. Richmond 2017-03-14 $7,930,000
9580860 Method for operating a clothes dryer using load temperature determined by an infrared sensor Fredrick E. Chernetski, Christopher J. Woerdehoff 2017-02-28 $13,859,000
9499934 Laundry treating appliances and methods of controlling the same to determine an end of-cycle condition Farhad Ashrafzadeh, James P. Carow, Moeed Mukhtar 2016-11-22 $9,806,000
9139951 Laundry treating appliance and method of controlling the heater thereof Brian A. Black 2015-09-22 $8,517,000
9080283 Method to control a drying cycle of a laundry treating appliance David J. Kmet, Peter J. Richmond 2015-07-14 $10,646,000
9027258 Laundry treating appliance with controlled cycle time David J. Kmet, Scott D. Parde, Michele A. Paustian, Joseph M. Shaw, David M. Williams 2015-05-12 $26,457,000
8819958 End of cycle detection for a laundry treating appliance Christopher J. Woerdehoff 2014-09-02 $10,020,000
8661706 Method for determining load size in a clothes dryer using an infrared sensor 2014-03-04 $75,047,000
8631527 Laundry treating appliance with tumble pattern control Farhad Ashrafzadeh 2014-01-21 $79,428,000
8578532 Laundry treating appliance with controlled mechanical energy Farhad Ashrafzadeh, Duane M. Kobos, Richard A. Sunshine 2013-11-12 $10,305,000
8555522 Laundry treating appliance with inlet temperature compensation James P. Carow, Michele A. Paustian, David M. Williams 2013-10-15 $14,457,000
8549770 Apparatus and method of drying laundry with drying uniformity determination Andrew Spangler, Christopher J. Woerdehoff 2013-10-08 $12,210,000
8474152 Method to detect an empty load in a clothes dryer David M. Williams, Christopher J. Woerdehoff 2013-07-02 $9,668,000
8468717 Method to detect an end of cycle in a clothes dryer David M. Williams, Christopher J. Woerdehoff 2013-06-25 $9,628,000
8365434 Dispensing dryer dosing sensing James P. Carow, FRANCESCO JATTA 2013-02-05 $11,052,000
8245415 Method for determining load size in a clothes dryer using an infrared sensor 2012-08-21 $8,314,000
8215134 Method and apparatus for determining laundry load size Farhad Ashrafzadeh 2012-07-10 $5,181,000
8166590 Method and apparatus for determining laundry load size Farhad Ashrafzadeh 2012-05-01 $8,001,000