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David Karl Bidner

Ford: 159 patents #53 of 17,473Top 1%
📍 Livonia, MI: #3 of 1,586 inventorsTop 1%
🗺 Michigan: #99 of 86,293 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #5,480 of 4,157,543Top 1%
159
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Showing 101–125 of 159 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7448983 System and method for utilizing estimated driver braking effort Jeff Doering, Shane Elwart, Gopichandra Surnilla, Yonghua Li 2008-11-11
7311079 Engine system and method with cylinder deactivation Gopichandra Surnilla, Shane Elwart, Jeff Doering, Christian T. Goralski 2007-12-25
7249583 System for controlling valve timing of an engine with cylinder deactivation Gopichandra Surnilla, Jeff Doering 2007-07-31
7194854 Method for improved performance of a vehicle having an internal combustion engine Gopichandra Surnilla 2007-03-27
7146799 Computer controlled engine air-fuel ratio adjustment Gopichandra Surnilla, Shane Elwart 2006-12-12
7089102 Coasting downshift control for automatic transmissions Joseph Scott Slayton, Bradley Dean Riedle, Pramod Jain, Balaram Sankpal, Steven Meisner +1 more 2006-08-08
7059112 Degradation detection method for an engine having a NOx sensor Gopichandra Surnilla 2006-06-13
7032572 Method for controlling an engine to obtain rapid catalyst heating Gopichandra Surnilla 2006-04-25
7025039 System and method for controlling valve timing of an engine with cylinder deactivation Gopichandra Surnilla, Jeff Doering 2006-04-11
6990799 Method of determining emission control system operability Gopichandra Sumilla 2006-01-31
6978204 Engine system and method with cylinder deactivation Gopichandra Surnilla, Shane Elwart, Jeff Doering, Christian T. Goralski 2005-12-20
6912842 Oxygen storage capacity estimation Grant Alan Ingram, Gopichandra Surnilla 2005-07-05
6907337 Vehicle torque resolution Anthony Mark Phillips, Johan Tollmen, Bengt Norén, Fredrick Hansson, Diana Yanakiev 2005-06-14
6901327 Computer instructions for control of multi-path exhaust system in an engine Gopichandra Surnilla, Michael John Cullen, Shane Elwart 2005-05-31
6889132 Vehicle drive control for 4×4 mode Dennis Allen Light, Michael John Cullen, Ralph Wayne Cunningham, Richard John Hippley 2005-05-03
6860100 Degradation detection method for an engine having a NOx sensor Gopichandra Surnilla 2005-03-01
6843051 Method and apparatus for controlling lean-burn engine to purge trap of stored NOx Gopichandra Surnilla 2005-01-18
6810659 Method for determining emission control system operability Gopichandra Surnilla 2004-11-02
6778898 Computer controller for vehicle and engine system with carbon canister vapor storage Gopichandra Surnilla, Yonghua Li 2004-08-17
6766641 Temperature control via computing device Gopichandra Surnilla, Shane Elwart 2004-07-27
6763656 Method and apparatus for optimizing purge fuel for purging emissions control device Gopichandra Surnilla 2004-07-20
6754578 Computer instructions for control of multi-path exhaust system in an engine Gopichandra Surnilla, Michael John Cullen, Shane Elwart 2004-06-22
6715462 Method to control fuel vapor purging Gopichandra Surnilla 2004-04-06
6708483 Method and apparatus for controlling lean-burn engine based upon predicted performance impact Jerry D. Robichaux, Gopichandra Surnilla 2004-03-23
6701246 Engine torque determination for powertrain with torque converter Bradley Dean Riedle, Jeffrey Allen Doering, Vincent J. Winstead 2004-03-02