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David Smith — 5 Patents

Ford: 3 patents #4,990 of 17,473Top 30%
LRLand Rover: 1 patents #14 of 59Top 25%
CUCummins: 1 patents #2,144 of 2,217Top 100%
Knoxville, TN: #583 of 2,927 inventorsTop 20%
Tennessee: #3,760 of 20,272 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
David Smith has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in February 2023. David Smith ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list David Smith in Knoxville, TN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11577581 Apparatus and system for controlling power to an air conditioning compressor for a vehicle Mahesh Madurai Kumar, Gary L. Parker, Subbarao Varigonda, Joseph E. Paquette, Benjamin David Padgett +4 more 2023-02-14 $26,020,000
7699751 Electric park brake system Phil Barber, Balbir Bhajam, Tony Satterthwaite, Richard G. Woodhouse, Mark W. Irvine 2010-04-20
7275610 Closed-loop power control for hybrid electric vehicles Ming Lang Kuang, Fazal Urrahman Syed 2007-10-02 $14,493,000
7117964 Control system for a hybrid electric vehicle powertrain Ming Lang Kuang, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Shailesh Shrikant Kozarekar, Vincent Freyermuth 2006-10-10 $12,684,000
6991053 Closed-loop power control for hybrid electric vehicles Ming Lang Kuang, Fazal Urrahman Syed 2006-01-31 $9,659,000