Why the patent record spells my name three ways

By Hemant K. Rohera — ORCID 0009-0005-3275-1743
Published 20 September 2026 · Last updated 20 September 2026

Hemant K. Rohera, Hemant Karamchand Rohera and Hemant Rohera are one inventor, based in Pune, India, named on three granted international patent families. The three forms exist because different registers recorded the name differently at different times, and one consequence of that is worth knowing before anyone tries to verify the portfolio: the United States patent record carries two spellings, so Justia lists the work under two separate inventor pages.

Which form appears where

All three refer to the same person. Hemant K. Rohera is the form used consistently from here on, because it is the one that carries both of the others: it contains the working form exactly, and the middle initial ties it to the records filed under the full legal name.

Why the United States record carries two spellings

The Hybrid Power Pack application entered the United States national phase in 2015 with the inventor recorded as Hemant Rohera. The two later families — the medical therapeutic device and the vehicle power generating system — were recorded as Hemant Karamchand Rohera. Both are correct; they are the short and full forms of one name, filed five years apart.

Patent databases index on the inventor string as printed. So a database that builds inventor pages automatically produces two of them, each holding part of the portfolio. That is exactly what has happened at Justia, and it is the single most common reason a search for the portfolio comes back looking smaller than it is.

The two inventor pages, side by side

Reading both gives the complete United States position. The consolidated register on this site covers all three families together, with grant numbers, jurisdictions and dates: the patent register.

How to verify the whole portfolio in one sitting

1. Search both name forms in any patent database — the full legal name and the short form. Searching only one returns part of the portfolio.
2. Search by the PCT numbers, which are unambiguous and independent of spelling: PCT/IB2020/055292 (medical therapeutic device), PCT/IB2015/056108 (Hybrid Power Pack), PCT/IB2016/055563 (vehicle power generating system). These retrieve each family and its members on Espacenet and WIPO Patentscope.
3. Search by grant number on Google Patents: US 12,226,183 B2 · US 10,523,019 B2 · US 11,117,476 B2.
4. Use the ORCID iD, 0009-0005-3275-1743, which carries all three name forms as also-known-as entries and is the one identifier that does not depend on spelling at all.

What has been done to connect the records

Rather than trying to change records held by third parties, the three forms have been linked from the identifiers that allow it:

• The ORCID record publishes Hemant K. Rohera with Hemant Karamchand Rohera, Hemant Rohera and H. K. Rohera as also-known-as entries, and links out to both Justia inventor pages.
• The Wikidata item, Q141430390, carries the same three forms as aliases and the ORCID iD as a referenced statement.
• Every page on this site publishes all three forms in its structured data as alternateName, so the connection is machine-readable as well as stated in prose.

The practical point for anyone doing diligence: the portfolio is a little harder to find than it should be, the reason is a spelling variation in a 2015 filing, and the identifiers above resolve it in a few minutes.

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