Thermal Processes and Apparatus

Citations to U.S. patents by U.S. patents granted in 2021

Top 10   [Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]

Related WIPO fields:[Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Engines, pumps, turbines | Control | Other consumer goods | Mechanical elements | Environmental technology | Chemical engineering All WIPO fields

[Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]
Most Cited by Examiners

  1. 7 6082443    Cooling device with heat pipe
  Inventors: Masaaki Yamamoto; Jun Niekawa; Tatuhiko Ueki; Masami Ikeda; Ken Sasaki

  1. 7 6729383    Fluid-cooled heat sink with turbulence-enhancing support pins
  Inventors: Michael J. Cannell; Roger Cooley; Richard Garman; Geoffrey F. Green; Peter N. Harrison; Joseph Walters

  3. 6 4823684    Pellet-fired barbecue
  Inventors: Joseph P. Traeger; Randolph J. Traeger; Mark A. Traeger

  3. 6 5253702    Integral heat pipe, heat exchanger, and clamping plate
  Inventors: Howard L. Davidson; Ehsan Ettehadieh

  3. 6 6119767    Cooling apparatus using boiling and condensing refrigerant
  Inventors: Shigeru Kadota; Kiyoshi Kawaguchi; Tetsuya Takeuti; Kazuo Kobayashi; Takahide Ohara; Masahiko Suzuki; Hajime Sugito; Junichi Semura

  3. 6 9466749    Balanced solar tracker clamp
  Inventors: Alexander W. Au

  7. 5 5076351    Heat pipe
  Inventors: Masaaki Munekawa; Chuichi Takahashi; Kaoru Hasegawa; Koichiro Fukui; Yuichi Furukawa

  7. 5 6397935    Flat type heat pipe
  Inventors: Masaaki Yamamoto; Jun Niekawa; Yuichi Kimura; Kenichi Namba

  7. 5 6629886    Demand ventilation module
  Inventors: Kevin Estepp

  7. 5 7531741    Tracking solar shelter
  Inventors: David S. Melton; Odes Armijo-Caster

  7. 5 8919426    Micro-channel pulsating heat pipe
  Inventors: Robert E. Hardesty

  7. 5 9423192    Heat spreading device and method with sectioning forming multiple chambers
  Inventors: Vadim Tsoi; Uno Henningsson; Yuping Hong; Feng Peng; Hua Yang; Haipeng Li

[Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]
Most Cited by Applicants

  1. 17 7469550    System and method for controlling appliances and thermostat for use therewith
  Inventors: John Gilman Chapman, Jr.; Nicholas Ashworth; Robert Burt; Timothy E. Wallaert; Joseph Rao

  2. 16 6332323    Heat transfer apparatus and method employing active regenerative cycle
  Inventors: Christopher Reid; Kenneth William Kratschmar; John A. Barclay; Adrian Corless

  2. 16 6851621    PDA diagnosis of thermostats
  Inventors: Paul Wacker; Richard A. Wruck

  4. 15 6478233    Thermal comfort controller having an integral energy savings estimator
  Inventors: Dipak J. Shah

  5. 14 8010237    System and method for using ramped setpoint temperature variation with networked thermostats to improve efficiency
  Inventors: Leo Cheung; Scott Douglas Hublou; John Douglas Steinberg

  5. 14 8280536    Thermostat user interface
  Inventors: Anthony M. Fadell; Matthew Lee Rogers; David Sloo; Michael Matas; Fred Bould; Shigefumi Honjo; Brian Huppi; John Benjamin Filson

  5. 14 8510255    Occupancy pattern detection, estimation and prediction
  Inventors: Anthony M. Fadell; Matthew Lee Rogers; Kipp Avery Rogers; Abraham K. Ishihara; Shahar Ben-Menahem; Rangoli Sharan

  8. 13 10139877    Method and apparatus for managing an energy consuming load
  Inventors: Roman Kulyk; Mark Kerbel

  8. 13 4107935    High temperature refrigerator
  Inventors: William A. Steyert

  8. 13 4332135    Active magnetic regenerator
  Inventors: John A. Barclay; William A. Steyert

  8. 13 5249424    Active magnetic regenerator method and apparatus
  Inventors: Anthony J. DeGregoria; Carl Bruno Zimm; Dennis J. Janda; Richard A. Lubasz; Alexander G. Jastrab; Joseph W. Johnson; Evan McNeil Ludeman

  8. 13 6526759    Rotating bed magnetic refrigeration apparatus
  Inventors: Carl Bruno Zimm; Alexander Sternberg; Alexander G. Jastrab; Andre Michael Boeder; Lewis Lawton; Jeremy Jonathan Chell

  8. 13 7159789    Thermostat with mechanical user interface
  Inventors: Paul G. Schwendinger; Jason L. Ableitner; James Gray; Tim Redmann

  8. 13 7313926    High efficiency absorption heat pump and methods of use
  Inventors: Michael Gurin

  8. 13 7894946    Apparatus for managing an energy consuming load by compiling load state data from other loads
  Inventors: Roman Kulyk; Mark Kerbel

  8. 13 7904209    Open web services-based indoor climate control system
  Inventors: Marek Podgorny; Luke Beca; Roman Markowski; Edward A. Bogucz; Suresh Santanam; Edward Lipson; Paul Roman; Greg Michalak; Gregg Lewandowski; Paul D. Gelling

  8. 13 8061147    Magnetic regenerator, a method of making a magnetic regenerator, a method of making an active magnetic refrigerator and an active magnetic refrigerator
  Inventors: Anders Reves Dinesen; Soren Linderoth; Nini Pryds; Anders Smith

  8. 13 8180492    System and method for using a networked electronic device as an occupancy sensor for an energy management system
  Inventors: John Douglas Steinberg

  8. 13 8195313    Thermostat user interface
  Inventors: Anthony M. Fadell; Matthew Lee Rogers; David Sloo; Michael Matas; Fred Bould; Shigefumi Honjo; Brian Huppi; John Benjamin Filson

  8. 13 8239066    System and method of use for a user interface dashboard of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning network
  Inventors: Jacob Jennings; Thomas Pavlak; Amanda Filbeck; Christopher Spencer

  8. 13 8511576    Power management in energy buffered building control unit
  Inventors: Daniel Adam Warren; Hugo Fiennes; Jonathan Alan Dutra; David Bell; Anthony M. Fadell; Matthew Lee Rogers; Ian C. Smith; Edwin H. Satterthwaite, Jr.; Joseph E. Palmer; Grant M. Erickson; Andrea Mucignat

  8. 13 8511577    Thermostat with power stealing delay interval at transitions between power stealing states
  Inventors: Daniel Adam Warren; Edwin H. Satterthwaite, Jr.; Ian C. Smith

  8. 13 8551210    Composite article with magnetocalorically active material and method for its production
  Inventors: Georg Werner Reppel; Matthias Katter

  8. 13 8560128    Adjusting proximity thresholds for activating a device user interface
  Inventors: Joseph Adam Ruff; Jonathan Solnit; Edwin H. Satterthwaite, Jr.

  8. 13 8674816    Remote device control and energy monitoring by analyzing data and applying rules including geographic location
  Inventors: Stephen Scott Trundle; Alison Jane Slavin; Jean-Paul Martin; David James Hutz

  8. 13 8918223    Apparatus for managing an energy consuming load
  Inventors: Roman Kulyk; Mark Kerbel

  8. 13 9110647    Method and apparatus for managing an energy consuming load
  Inventors: Roman Kulyk; Mark Kerbel

  8. 13 9175885    Article made of a granular magnetocalorically active material for heat exchange
  Inventors: Matthias Katter

  8. 13 9298196    Energy efficiency promoting schedule learning algorithms for intelligent thermostat
  Inventors: Yoky Matsuoka; Frank E. Astier; Rangoli Sharan; David Sloo; Anthony M. Fadell

  8. 13 9298197    Automated adjustment of an HVAC schedule for resource conservation
  Inventors: Yoky Matsuoka; Mark Rajan Malhotra; Evan J. Fisher

  8. 13 9703339    Method and apparatus for managing an energy consuming load
  Inventors: Roman Kulyk; Mark Kerbel

 
 
References:
Raw data from: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. "Data Download Tables." PatentsView. Accessed October 30, 2025. https://patentsview.org/download/data-download-tables.

Please contact me (carlos@candeloro.net) for data driven intellectual property legal services, methodology for stats presented in this website, or if you know or believe the information presented is not correct.

Labeled "Attorney Advertisement" as may be required by law.
Copyright 2026
Published: February 18, 2026