Inventor · Stanford, CA, US

Robert B. Laughlin

15Patents
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8Co-inventors
61Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 4, 2011 → Oct 25, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9932830B2 Adiabatic salt electric energy storage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 48 Active
US10288357B2 Hybrid pumped thermal systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Active
US10012448B2 Systems and methods for energy storage and retrieval Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Active
US10094219B2 Adiabatic salt energy storage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 35 Active
US10907513B2 Adiabatic salt energy storage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Active
US10458721B2 Pumped thermal storage cycles with recuperation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Active
US10443452B2 Methods of hot and cold side charging in thermal energy storage systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Active
US11156385B2 Pumped thermal storage cycles with working fluid management Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Active
US11761336B2 Adiabatic salt energy storage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US11754319B2 Pumped thermal storage cycles with turbomachine speed control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US10422250B2 Pumped thermal systems with variable stator pressure ratio control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US10210970B2 Metallic-magnetic-domain-wall-based nonvolatile tunable resistor for memory and sensor applications Electricity 2 Active
US10458283B2 Varying compression ratios in energy storage and retrieval systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US10428694B2 Pumped thermal and energy storage system units with pumped thermal system and energy storage system subunits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US10428693B2 Pumped thermal systems with dedicated compressor/turbine pairs Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.