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Rainer Kaufmann — 26 Patents

DADaimler Ag: 3 patents #307 of 2,089Top 15%
Daimlerchrysler Ag: 3 patents #620 of 4,854Top 15%
AKAristo Graphic Systeme Gmbh & Co. Kg: 1 patents #3 of 9Top 35%
ADAvery Dennison: 1 patents #568 of 1,021Top 60%
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: 1 patents #10,653 of 22,248Top 50%
Stuttgart, DE: #143 of 5,983 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Rainer Kaufmann has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Daimler Ag. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in November 2025. Rainer Kaufmann ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Rainer Kaufmann in Stuttgart, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2000.peak 41982: 1 patents19821984: 1 patents1992: 1 patents19921994: 2 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents2000: 4 patents20002001: 2 patents2002: 3 patents20022003: 2 patents2005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102013: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152019: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12476272 Battery for an at least partially electrically operable motor vehicle having at least one flexible tensioning device which is supported on a motor vehicle component, and motor vehicle Thomas Soczka-Guth, Ulrich Beck, Anselm MUELBERGER, Jens Meintschel 2025-11-18
11764788 Electrical equipment and method for rectifying device faults Dennis Persdorf 2023-09-19
10276851 Battery comprising a number of individual cells connected electrically to one another and method for maintaining, repairing and/or optimizing such a battery Norbert Bachmann, Tillmann Hoefer, Jens Meintschel, Rudolf Reinhardt, Dirk Schroeter +1 more 2019-04-30
9005797 Battery with a stack of bipolar individual battery cells Dirk Schroeter, Jens Meintschel, Martin Ertle, Claudia Brasse, Claus-Rupert Hohenthanner +1 more 2015-04-14
8568918 Battery having a plurality of single cells Dirk Schroeter, Jens Meintschel, Arnold Lamm, Wolfgang Warthmann 2013-10-29
7648297 Writing utensil 2010-01-19
7286916 Method for determining the time and extent of maintenance operations Robert Hoeflacher, Walter Kostelezky, Kurt Lay, Rupert Reiger 2007-10-23 $177,657,000
6876908 Method for creating a maintenance algorithm Regine Crämer, Ursula Felger, Andrej Krauth, Jurgen Trost 2005-04-05 $30,185,000
6609051 Method and system for condition monitoring of vehicles Claude-Nicolas Fiechter, Mehmet H. Göker, Daniel Grill, Thorsten Engelhardt, Achim Bertsche 2003-08-19 $65,467,000
6602334 Method and ink for producing waterproof markings on plastic surfaces 2003-08-05
6497527 Liquid applicator implement 2002-12-24
6416242 Efficient fluid dispensing utensil 2002-07-09
6413001 Liquid applicator implement 2002-07-02
6322268 Efficient fluid dispensing utensil Dale Harder 2001-11-27 $41,933,000
6183155 Device for applying liquids onto a base using an applicator element 2001-02-06
6164858 Fluid regulator for supplying a consumer element with fluid from a fluid reservoir 2000-12-26
6113677 Coloring agent 2000-09-05
6095707 Writing utensil with a container for receiving freely a writing liquid 2000-08-01
6089776 Fluid dispensing utensil 2000-07-18
5641078 Device for filling writing, drawing, printing, or painting utensils 1997-06-24
5482191 Device for filling writing, drawing, printing or painting utensils 1996-01-09
5352052 Device for applying writing, drawing, printing and painting fluids onto a surface 1994-10-04
5279652 Use of solids as antiblocking additives for marker liquids Gunther Herrnring 1994-01-18
5102251 Supply system for devices that operate with the aid of capillary forces and are used to apply liquids 1992-04-07
4487516 Printing needle apparatus 1984-12-11