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Thomas E. Braford, Jr. — 26 Patents

BOBorgwarner: 23 patents #19 of 1,733Top 2%
FLFca Us Llc.: 1 patents #519 of 1,371Top 40%
MPMagna Powertrain: 1 patents #74 of 107Top 70%
Brighton, MI: #23 of 809 inventorsTop 3%
Michigan: #2,730 of 86,293 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Thomas E. Braford, Jr. has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Borgwarner. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in July 2025. Thomas E. Braford, Jr. ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Thomas E. Braford, Jr. in Brighton, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2001.peak 42000: 1 patents20002001: 4 patents2005: 4 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 1 patents20072009: 3 patents2010: 1 patents20102012: 2 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 2 patents20152025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12359716 Electric drive module dual sump arrangement for oil management 2025-07-15
9156351 Power transfer device with low effort mode shift system Wolfram Hasewend, Matthew Girlando 2015-10-13
9080621 Freewheeling synchronizer 2015-07-14 $8,204,000
8844391 Power flow configuration for dual clutch transmission mechanism 2014-09-30 $47,357,000
8714326 Dual clutch mechanism for a transmission Hans Juergen Hauck 2014-05-06 $17,260,000
8453816 Flexplate coupling for a wet clutch transmission Paul T. McCrary 2013-06-04 $11,350,000
8429992 Power flow configuration for dual clutch transmission mechanism 2013-04-30 $22,053,000
8375816 Dual clutch transmission 2013-02-19 $9,102,000
8313406 Dual clutch transmission 2012-11-20 $22,686,000
8220608 Integrated clutch assembly damper arrangement Karl-Heinz Bauer, Hans Jurgen Hauck, Till Ebner 2012-07-17 $51,477,000
7784595 Integrated clutch assembly damper arrangement Karl-Heinz Bauer, Hans Jurgen Hauck, Till Ebner 2010-08-31 $36,949,000
7559415 Hydraulic synchronizer 2009-07-14 $50,071,000
7534171 Spline connector 2009-05-19 $16,237,000
7497312 Clutch assembly 2009-03-03 $7,906,000
7246692 Dual clutch mechanism for a transmission 2007-07-24 $12,206,000
7127961 Integrated control module for a dual clutch transmission Brian K. Stefina 2006-10-31 $15,086,000
7121392 Hydraulic double clutch Karl-Heinz Bauer 2006-10-17 $5,447,000
6953412 Reversible one-way clutch for planetary transmission Daniel P. Costin 2005-10-11
6868949 Start-up clutch assembly 2005-03-22 $6,930,000
6854580 Torsional damper having variable bypass clutch with centrifugal release mechanism 2005-02-15 $4,908,000
6840363 Multi-disk friction device selective lubrication on demand Thomas Schmidt 2005-01-11 $7,874,000
6227340 Automatic transmission with dual gain multi-disk friction device 2001-05-08 $8,976,000
6213272 Automatic transmission having nested clutch housings 2001-04-10 $4,473,000
6209695 Multi-speed transmission with no lag electronically controlled valving 2001-04-03 $2,975,000
6202814 Automatic transmission having grounded clutch with convergent cooling 2001-03-20 $2,950,000