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Daniel M. King — 28 Patents

Ford: 28 patents #560 of 17,473Top 4%
Northville, MI: #51 of 1,240 inventorsTop 5%
Michigan: #2,413 of 86,293 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Daniel M. King has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in October 2025. Daniel M. King ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Daniel M. King in Northville, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2022.peak 72001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042009: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 2 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 3 patents2021: 3 patents20212022: 7 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12434719 Enhanced vehicle activation Ming Lang Kuang, Mark Douglas Malone, Yuanzhen Niu, David Celinske, Scott J. Lauffer +4 more 2025-10-07
12139100 Systems and methods for enhanced vehicle valet mode Aaron Matthew DeLong, Eugene Karpinsky, Cameron Smyth, Timothy Thivierge, Jr., Kevin Thomas Hille +3 more 2024-11-12 $13,385,000
11919478 Systems and methods for enhanced vehicle valet mode Aaron Matthew DeLong, Eugene Karpinsky, Cameron Smyth, Timothy Thivierge, Jr., Kevin Thomas Hille +3 more 2024-03-05 $10,764,000
11681788 Autonomous vehicle authentication key delivery Mohammad TALHA, Ali Hassani, Hamid M. Golgiri 2023-06-20 $18,748,000
11535194 Systems and methods for reducing latency in vehicle access requests Ali Hassani, Hamid M. Golgiri, Ryan Joseph Gorski 2022-12-27 $14,488,000
11529886 Power supply during vehicle off state Yuming Niu, Ming Lang Kuang, Mark Douglas Malone 2022-12-20 $17,793,000
11530673 Method and system for activating in-vehicle power source Michael Hrecznyj, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Timothy Thivierge, Jr., Zeljko Deljevic, Jason Myslinski 2022-12-20 $17,793,000
11391257 Power supply during vehicle startup Yuming Niu, Ming Lang Kuang, Mark Douglas Malone 2022-07-19 $17,157,000
11370392 Authentication PIN collision prevention for autonomous vehicles Hamid M. Golgiri, Ali Hassani, Ryan Edwin Hanson, Howard Paul Tsvi Linden 2022-06-28 $12,337,000
11290271 Secure storage enhancements for authentication systems Ali Hassani, Ryan Edwin Hanson, Hamid M. Golgiri, Cameron Smyth 2022-03-29 $23,955,000
11275368 Key fobs for vehicle remote park-assist John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Erick Michael Lavoie, Ali Hassani, Alyssa Chatten 2022-03-15 $29,679,000
11037388 Systems and methods for creating a password and/or a keypad code for executing keyless operations upon a vehicle Aaron Matthew DeLong, Eugene Karpinsky, Cameron Smyth, Timothy Thivierge, Jr., Kevin Thomas Hille +3 more 2021-06-15 $12,974,000
10919497 Systems and methods for starting a vehicle using a secure password entry system Aaron Matthew DeLong, Eugene Karpinsky, Cameron Smyth, Timothy Thivierge, Jr., Kevin Thomas Hille +3 more 2021-02-16 $9,885,000
10895235 Method and system for activating in-vehicle power source Michael Hrecznyj, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Timothy Thivierge, Jr., Zeljko Deljevic, Jason Myslinski 2021-01-19 $24,673,000
10407023 Remote starting of engines via vehicle keypads Vivekanandh Elangovan, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Timothy Thivierge, Jr. 2019-09-10
10328940 Secure idle for a vehicle generator James Theodore Cikalo, Thomas Lee Miller, Kevin Thomas Hille, Micheal Nikiforuk, Scott Alan Watkins 2019-06-25 $4,885,000
10293787 Vehicle key management Ronald Patrick Brombach, Maria Eugenia Protopapas, Maeen Mawari 2019-05-21 $5,551,000
9894492 System and method for determining mobile device location relative to vehicle cabin Vivekanandh Elangovan, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Kevin Thomas Hille 2018-02-13 $3,601,000
9694824 Method and system for selecting vehicle performance Frank J. Desjarlais, Thomas Lee Miller, Charles Richard Drake, Eric L. Reed 2017-07-04
9656629 Timed independent vehicle secure compartment access Arie Groeneveld, Steven T. Skikun, Robert S. Kern, William M. Gardner, Jr., Steven Erno +1 more 2017-05-23 $3,725,000
9272688 Method and system for selecting vehicle performance Frank J. Desjarlais, Thomas Lee Miller, Charles Richard Drake, Eric L. Reed 2016-03-01 $8,878,000
9132805 Unattended-vehicle engine-idling system Thomas Lee Miller, Kevin Thomas Hille, Scott Alan Watkins, James E. Kaminske 2015-09-15 $17,937,000
9002569 Vehicle shut-down functionality for PEPS-equipped vehicles Filip Tomik, Kirk Pebley, William David Treharne, Kevin Thomas Hille 2015-04-07 $8,477,000
8838325 Vehicle shut-down functionality for peps-equipped vehicles Filip Tomik, Kirk Pebley, William David Treharne, Kevin Thomas Hille 2014-09-16 $9,784,000
7547058 System and method for operating an automotive liftgate Greg Conner, Ryan Edwin Hanson, Michael Wrobel, Jr., Colm Deloughery, Dennis Montville 2009-06-16 $40,421,000