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David C. Mills — 11 Patents

BOBorgwarner: 11 patents #83 of 1,733Top 5%
Lake Orion, MI: #61 of 676 inventorsTop 10%
Michigan: #8,574 of 86,293 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
David C. Mills has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Borgwarner. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in October 2019. David C. Mills ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list David C. Mills in Lake Orion, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2016.peak 21999: 1 patents19992003: 1 patents20032007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents20102014: 1 patents20142016: 2 patents20162018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10428933 Transmission valve manifold and method of manufacturing a transmission valve manifold 2019-10-01 $14,851,000
10102954 Solenoid actuator assembly with press fit housing assembly Jeffrey J. Waterstredt 2018-10-16 $6,410,000
9887031 Solenoid actuator assembly with press fit housing assembly Jeffrey J. Waterstredt 2018-02-06 $28,077,000
9528626 Mono bearing one piece core solenoid Garrett R. Holmes 2016-12-27 $12,108,000
9423045 Method for solenoid motor venting with contamination protection via a hydraulic sleeve Garrett R. Holmes, Scott M. Weber 2016-08-23 $26,214,000
8800399 Hydraulic circuit for automatic transmission having area controlled shift actuator valve with flow force compensation 2014-08-12 $13,022,000
7856999 Automatic transmission having hydraulic valves with flow force compensation Xiaoning Xiang, Melissa Koenig, William J. Vukovich 2010-12-28 $54,022,000
7331565 On/off solenoid Scott M. Weber, Howard Saxon 2008-02-19 $15,489,000
7240894 Pulse width modulated solenoid Ryan True, Aaron Biefer 2007-07-10 $13,248,000
6544138 Electro-hydraulic module for automatic transmission control Ryan True, Howard Saxon 2003-04-08 $2,004,000
5957161 Long stroke balanced solenoid Bradley C. Erickson, Jerry A. Sowik 1999-09-28 $4,925,000