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Christopher Michael Kava — 11 Patents

Ford: 11 patents #1,653 of 17,473Top 10%
Taylor, MI: #9 of 221 inventorsTop 5%
Michigan: #8,574 of 86,293 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Christopher Michael Kava has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in December 2024. Christopher Michael Kava ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Christopher Michael Kava in Taylor, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2017 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2017.peak 22017: 2 patents20172019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12168434 Hybrid vehicle engine start/stop system Kenneth Frederick, Floyd Cadwell, Justin Reuel Badger 2024-12-17 $19,597,000
11548485 Electrified vehicle configured to address excess braking request by selectively increasing drag Shevon Vannitamby, Joshua Boerger 2023-01-10 $11,777,000
11273686 Electrified vehicle with control strategy for managing battery and cabin cooling Jennifer Helen Chang, Craig Lechlitner, Brett Allen Dunn 2022-03-15 $29,679,000
11241968 Hybrid vehicle and battery depletion control system for a hybrid vehicle Alan Robert Dona, Brandon R. Masterson 2022-02-08 $97,709,000
11173892 Methods and system for operating a hybrid vehicle in a performance mode Mark Anthony Rockwell, Kent Hancock 2021-11-16 $25,168,000
11117483 Traction battery charging method and charging system Shevon Vannitamby, Lori Kohrs, Mike Padgett 2021-09-14 $14,764,000
10857991 Hybrid vehicle engine start/stop system Kenneth Frederick, Floyd Cadwell, Justin Reuel Badger 2020-12-08 $12,431,000
10377243 Electrified vehicle energy dissipation Justin Reuel Badger, Mark Anthony Rockwell, Donald Mitchem 2019-08-13
10308237 Hybrid vehicle launch control strategy Alan Robert Dona 2019-06-04 $3,543,000
9637112 Vehicle performance preload enabler Mark Anthony Rockwell, Justin Reuel Badger 2017-05-02 $4,343,000
9586485 Electrified vehicle energy dissipation Justin Reuel Badger, Mark Anthony Rockwell, Donald Mitchem 2017-03-07 $7,168,000