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Michael Close — 4 Patents

BOBorgwarner: 3 patents #360 of 1,600Top 25%
Oracle: 1 patents #8,339 of 14,854Top 60%
Apalachin, NY: #44 of 172 inventorsTop 30%
New York: #31,814 of 115,490 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Michael Close has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Borgwarner. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in August 2024. Michael Close ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Michael Close in Apalachin, NY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12071995 Torque limiting coupler for an electric motor shaft Daniel Brown, Shawn Blackmur 2024-08-27 $55,438,000
10233999 Off-axis-loaded anti-backlash planetary drive for e-phaser Chad McCloy 2019-03-19 $11,139,000
10006321 Engine variable camshaft timing phaser with planetary gear set Roger T. Simpson, Thomas Benner 2018-06-26 $6,573,000
6975519 Insertion and extraction mechanism for circuit boards Hassan Siahpolo 2005-12-13 $5,227,000