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Christopher Nave — 14 Patents

Ford: 14 patents #1,271 of 17,473Top 8%
Ypsilanti, MI: #87 of 1,007 inventorsTop 9%
Michigan: #6,429 of 86,293 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Christopher Nave has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in November 2022. Christopher Nave ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Christopher Nave in Ypsilanti, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2016.peak 52011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents20122015: 4 patents20152016: 5 patents20162017: 1 patents20172022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11512968 Systems and methods for queue management of passenger waypoints for autonomous vehicles Michael Hand, Shubham Sharma, Johnathon Gagnon 2022-11-29 $17,507,000
9612596 Hands-off steering wheel governed by pedestrian detection Timothy D. Zwicky, Andy Chuan Hsia, Levasseur Tellis, Reid James Steiger 2017-04-04 $4,928,000
9374562 System and method for calculating a horizontal camera to target distance Roger Arnold Trombley, Erick Michael Lavoie, Bradley G. Hockrein, Don Jacob Mattern 2016-06-21 $9,685,000
9346396 Supplemental vehicle lighting system for vision based target detection Thomas Edward Pilutti, Chad Clement, Udayakumar Ramasami, Sleiman N. Adelnour, Stephen Kenneth Helwig 2016-05-24 $7,817,000
9296423 Maximum trailer angle determination and control for a trailer backup assist system Matt Y. Rupp, David Dean Smit, Roger Arnold Trombley, Thomas Edward Pilutti, Erick Michael Lavoie +4 more 2016-03-29 $5,918,000
9283892 Method and system for monitoring placement of a target on a trailer Roger Arnold Trombley, Thomas Edward Pilutti, John Shutko 2016-03-15 $6,412,000
9248858 Trailer backup assist system Erick Michael Lavoie, Roger Arnold Trombley, John Shutko, Matt Y. Rupp, Kenneth Michael Mayer +4 more 2016-02-02 $7,747,000
9102272 Trailer target monitoring system and method Roger Arnold Trombley, Eric L. Reed, John Shutko 2015-08-11 $6,454,000
9042603 Method and apparatus for estimating the distance from trailer axle to tongue Shane Elwart, John Shutko, Kenneth Michael Mayer, Roger Arnold Trombley 2015-05-26 $8,512,000
9037349 Trailer identification system for trailer backup assist Roger Arnold Trombley, Thomas Edward Pilutti, Erick Michael Lavoie, John Shutko, Rich Lanoue +2 more 2015-05-19 $12,976,000
8930140 Trailer target placement assist system and method Roger Arnold Trombley, Thomas Edward Pilutti, John Shutko, Shane Elwart, Kenneth Michael Mayer 2015-01-06 $12,966,000
8296033 Curve-related accident mitigation Jianbo Lu, Daniel Domek Eisele, Thomas Edward Pilutti, Levasseur Tellis, Jeffrey Daniel Rupp 2012-10-23 $24,801,000
7991551 System and method for determining a collision status of a nearby vehicle Stephen Samuel, W. Trent Yopp, Roger Arnold Trombley 2011-08-02 $30,368,000
7991552 System and method for determining a side-impact collision status of a nearby vehicle Stephen Samuel, W. Trent Yopp, Roger Arnold Trombley 2011-08-02 $30,368,000