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Derek Kinch — 32 Patents

Ford: 31 patents #496 of 17,473Top 3%
General Motors: 1 patents #9,441 of 18,328Top 55%
Ypsilanti, MI: #27 of 1,007 inventorsTop 3%
Michigan: #1,992 of 86,293 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Derek Kinch has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in January 2024. Derek Kinch ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Derek Kinch in Ypsilanti, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2016.peak 72008: 1 patents20082013: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 4 patents2016: 7 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 3 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 2 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11867286 Transmission fluid temperature control system Raymond Gage, Sylvia Chen 2024-01-09 $23,025,000
11754169 Lubrication and cooling oil distribution system for a vehicle transaxle William David Guarino, Bharath Madduri, Kyle Ogrodzinski 2023-09-12 $7,721,000
11692622 Transmission shift with pressure controlled cleaning pulses Joseph Scott Slayton, Stephen Michael Cicala, Bradley Dean Riedle, Richard Reynolds Hathaway 2023-07-04
10995775 Hydraulic boost valve Abdul Motin, Raymond Gage, Sylvia Chen 2021-05-04 $17,560,000
10941856 Dual sump transmission hydraulic control system 2021-03-09 $14,807,000
10704677 Method of discharging transmission accumulator Scott Joseph Gittins, Lisa Waldock, Stephen Michael Cicala, Joseph Scott Slayton, Timothy Fedullo +1 more 2020-07-07 $2,344,000
10697541 Transmission park control system Scott Joseph Gittins, Timothy Fedullo, Samuel Melville Glauber, Joseph Scott Slayton 2020-06-30 $4,640,000
10480651 Transmission park control system Timothy Andrew Sikowski 2019-11-19
10408347 Transmission park control system Scott Joseph Gittins, Timothy Fedullo, Samuel Melville Glauber, Matthew Scott Malnar, Joseph Scott Slayton 2019-09-10
10337573 Two-phase transmission clutch staging Ravindra Velamakanni, Cory Benson LaRoche, John Randall Armstead, Joseph Scott Slayton 2019-07-02 $2,926,000
10119540 Variable displacement vane pump Dengfu Zhang, Robert J. Miller, Mark Davis, Akhter Zaman 2018-11-06 $3,872,000
10006541 Regulator valve with integrated direct acting solenoid Robert O. Burkhart, John Butwin, Anthony Koenings, Hrudaya Mahapatro, Wei-Wei Zhuang 2018-06-26 $3,743,000
9982779 Transmission hydraulic control system including thermal valve David A. Pollard 2018-05-29 $5,236,000
9951861 Transmission hydraulic control system 2018-04-24 $5,563,000
9803637 Variable displacement hydraulic pump control Mark R. Dobson, Lev Pekarsky, Hrudaya Mahapatro 2017-10-31 $5,187,000
9803638 Control circuit for transmission variable displacement pump with improved efficiency Mark R. Dobson, Lev Pekarsky, Hrudaya Mahapatro 2017-10-31 $5,187,000
9683666 Transmission hydraulic control system 2017-06-20 $4,387,000
9512919 Transmission hydraulic control system 2016-12-06 $8,867,000
9506548 Control valve and method of controlling torque converter lock-up clutch 2016-11-29 $6,847,000
9441732 Regulator valve with integrated direct acting solenoid Robert O. Burkhart, John Butwin, Anthony Koenings, Hrudaya Mahapatro, Wei-Wei Zhuang 2016-09-13 $5,233,000
9371903 Method for shifting a shift-by-wire transmission without engine power Brian J. Deurloo, Jeffrey James Tumavitch, Richard Reynolds Hathaway, Todd Curtis Spaulding 2016-06-21 $9,685,000
9353853 Control of transmission latch valve Alexander Phillip McDonnell, Kendrick Morrison, Cory Benson LaRoche, John Randall Armstead, Brian Michael O'Neil +1 more 2016-05-31 $8,994,000
9341261 Torque converter clutch control valve system Joel H. Gunderson 2016-05-17 $11,737,000
9233666 Shift-by-wire vehicle and method to verify securement Emad Al-Regib, Brian J. Deurloo, Todd Curtis Spaulding, Jeffrey James Tumavitch, Richard Reynolds Hathaway 2016-01-12 $12,053,000
9114790 Shift-by-wire actuation of a transmission park brake Steven Anatole Frait 2015-08-25 $7,621,000