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William Thorpe — 12 Patents

Delphi Technologies: 3 patents #1,040 of 4,124Top 30%
BPBritish Telecommunications Plc: 2 patents #81 of 616Top 15%
CDCom Dev: 2 patents #20 of 86Top 25%
APAe Plc: 1 patents #28 of 61Top 50%
FLFederal-Mogul Technology Limited: 1 patents #6 of 35Top 20%
TOThe Post Office: 1 patents #28 of 117Top 25%
TLT&N Technology Limited: 1 patents #18 of 56Top 35%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
William Thorpe has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Delphi Technologies. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in February 2013. William Thorpe ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list William Thorpe in Felixstowe, ON, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2000.peak 21981: 1 patents19811985: 1 patents19851986: 1 patents19861988: 1 patents19881989: 1 patents19891990: 1 patents19902000: 2 patents20002004: 1 patents20042005: 2 patents20052013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8367921 Method and system for assessing a musical performance David Christopher Evans, Benjamin Ruciak 2013-02-05
6915882 Method and apparatus for constructing disc brakes 2005-07-12 $2,554,000
6843350 Method and apparatus for mounting a brake disc with resilient biasing means James Larkin 2005-01-18 $5,193,000
6712184 Method and apparatus for mounting a brake disc Adam Challenor 2004-03-30 $3,142,000
6119820 Ventilated brake disc Colin Steptoe, Marcus Brian Mayhall Fenton, Tseng Kuan Kao 2000-09-19 $7,513,000
6116387 Disc brake rotor Tseng Kuan Kao 2000-09-12
4921734 Cylinder liners David Christopher Evans 1990-05-01
4864308 Frequency-scanning radiometer Anthony R. Raab, Thomas P. G. Healy 1989-09-05
4733201 Stacked ferrite resonance isolator Joseph Helszajn 1988-03-22
4563662 Mounting dielectric resonators 1986-01-07
4496918 Radio frequency alternate-path phase switch 1985-01-29
4307349 Impatt amplifiers Peter W. Huish 1981-12-22