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Daniel Benjamin Kok — 21 Patents

Ford: 21 patents #813 of 17,473Top 5%
Ann Arbor, MI: #405 of 6,071 inventorsTop 7%
Michigan: #3,808 of 86,293 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Daniel Benjamin Kok has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in March 2023. Daniel Benjamin Kok ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Daniel Benjamin Kok in Ann Arbor, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2021.peak 72003: 1 patents20032006: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122015: 1 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 2 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 7 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11597252 Plug-in electric vehicle and method for heating a passenger cabin Thomas Zenner, Timothy Noah Blatchley, Mark G. Smith 2023-03-07 $16,203,000
11059351 System and method for heating passenger cabin with combination of power electronics and electric machine waste heat Thomas Zenner, Serdar Hakki Yonak, Kenneth J. Jackson 2021-07-13 $11,580,000
11001163 Electrified vehicle with splittable battery and associated method Thomas Zenner 2021-05-11 $11,202,000
11002172 Method and system for exhaust-gas heat management Thomas Zenner, Martin Wirth, Lars Kaufmann, Mehmet Toeremis 2021-05-11 $11,202,000
10994587 System and method for heating passenger cabin with combination of inverter waste heat and refrigerant Thomas Zenner, Kenneth J. Jackson, Serdar Hakki Yonak 2021-05-04 $17,560,000
10906377 System and method for heating passenger cabin with inverter waste heat boosted by a heater Thomas Zenner, Kenneth J. Jackson, Serdar Hakki Yonak 2021-02-02 $9,520,000
10899248 Assembly and method for cooling a traction battery of a vehicle using at least one cooling rib Thomas Zenner, Caroline Born 2021-01-26 $11,486,000
10894486 Assembly and method for cooling a traction battery of a vehicle using fuel Thomas Zenner, Caroline Born 2021-01-19 $24,673,000
10780794 Assembly and method for cooling a traction battery of a vehicle using fuel Thomas Zenner, Caroline Born 2020-09-22 $9,158,000
10749229 Arrangement for tempering a battery, vehicle, and methods for heating and cooling a battery Thomas Zenner, Mazen Hammoud 2020-08-18 $4,408,000
10493819 System and method for heating passenger cabin with combination of inverter waste heat and refrigerant Thomas Zenner, Kenneth J. Jackson, Serdar Hakki Yonak 2019-12-03
10239416 System and method for improving reverse driving capability of electrified vehicles Thomas Zenner, Derek Hartl 2019-03-26 $5,124,000
10150371 Regenerative braking method Thomas Zenner, Jimmy Kapadia 2018-12-11
9994108 Regenerative braking power distribution David Anthony Symanow, Derek Hartl, Jeffrey Raymond Mohr, William David Treharne 2018-06-12 $4,469,000
9964090 Control of a rolling stop-start vehicle engine Hafiz Shafeek Khafagy, Ahmed Awadi, Raed Younis, Mohannad Hakeem 2018-05-08 $4,537,000
9133810 Method and apparatus for starting an engine Donatus Andreas Josephine Kees, James Andrew Straker 2015-09-15 $17,937,000
8308607 Method for automatically restarting an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle Urs Christen, Rainer Busch, Anthemios Philemon Petridis, David Hesketh, Christopher Edward PEDLAR +1 more 2012-11-13 $19,366,000
7969040 Dual battery vehicle electrical systems Mark Conen, Muhammad Ali Siddiqui, Paul Taberham, Darren Lee Cousen 2011-06-28 $19,241,000
7410445 Locking mechanism for the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine Erik Surewaard, Don Andreas Josephine Kees, Engbert Spijker, Mark Eifert 2008-08-12 $16,360,000
7038427 Method for supplying power in an electrical power supply system having a supercapacitor Engbert Spijker, Lutz Gaedt 2006-05-02 $16,758,000
6605773 Thermoelectric generator for a vehicle Rainer Busch 2003-08-12 $20,200,000