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Franco Leonardi — 64 Patents

Ford: 64 patents #191 of 17,473Top 2%
Dearborn Heights, MI: #3 of 429 inventorsTop 1%
Michigan: #567 of 86,293 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #34,494 of 4,157,543Top 1%
64 Patents All Time
Franco Leonardi has been granted 64 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in September 2025. Franco Leonardi ranks #34,494 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.83%). Patent records list Franco Leonardi in Dearborn Heights, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 14 patents in 2023.peak 142003: 1 patents20032004: 2 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 3 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152018: 5 patents2019: 3 patents20192020: 4 patents2021: 3 patents20212022: 7 patents2023: 14 patents20232024: 5 patents2025: 7 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 64 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12424891 Adhesive mixture including hard magnetic material for e-machine rotor Chuanbing Rong, Chun Tang, Wanfeng Li, Michael W. Degner 2025-09-23
12381026 Systems and methods for demagnetization of a permanent magnet rotor Wanfeng Li, Michael W. Degner 2025-08-05
12362607 Stator with serpentine coolant path on the outer surface Michael W. Degner 2025-07-15
12348099 Electric machine end winding design without conductor overlap Becky Sue Morris 2025-07-01
12243683 Additive manufacturing of ND—FE—B magnets with insulating layers Wanfeng Li, Michael W. Degner 2025-03-04
12237103 Electrical steel lamination stacks with magnetic insulator coating for electrical apparatus cores Leyi Zhu, Michael W. Degner 2025-02-25
12237720 Electric machine thermal management Dengfu Zhang, Brian Christian Orr, Alfredo R. Munoz, Joel Hetrick 2025-02-25
12113413 Electrified vehicle having electric machine stator with embedded wire support overmold Michael W. Degner, Man Prakash Gupta, Christopher White, Steven C. White, Gary T. Martini +1 more 2024-10-08 $17,043,000
11948733 Processing of anisotropic permanent magnet without magnetic field Wanfeng Li, Chuanbing Rong, Michael W. Degner 2024-04-02 $19,923,000
11923738 Electric machine for vehicle Michael W. Degner, Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti 2024-03-05 $10,764,000
11923133 Additive manufacturing of Nd-Fe-B magnets with insulating layers Wanfeng Li, Michael W. Degner 2024-03-05 $10,764,000
11901769 Stator with piloting supports Brian Christian Orr, Joel Hetrick 2024-02-13 $11,094,000
11843281 Electric machine for vehicle Michael W. Degner 2023-12-12 $21,917,000
11837939 Electric machine Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti, Michael W. Degner 2023-12-05 $27,966,000
11799361 End covers configured to direct fluid for thermal management of electric machine for electrified vehicle Man Prakash Gupta, Alfredo R. Munoz, Michael W. Degner, Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti 2023-10-24 $6,742,000
11796574 Integration of current sensor with busbar Christopher Wolf, Michael W. Degner, Seth Avery 2023-10-24 $6,742,000
11742708 In slot cooling enhancement for coated stator Man Prakash Gupta 2023-08-29 $11,639,000
11728702 Electrical machine rotor with eliminated iron bridge Michael W. Degner, Chun Tang, Edward Chan-Jiun Jih, Kewei XIAO 2023-08-15 $10,154,000
11682932 Additively manufactured magnetic materials with structural designs Leyi Zhu, Chun Tang, Michael W. Degner 2023-06-20 $18,748,000
11677283 Electric machine having vibration attenuating stator laminations Christopher Wolf, Michael W. Degner 2023-06-13 $17,133,000
11658533 Thermal management assembly with end cap and seal for an electrified vehicle Michael W. Degner, Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti, Myung Ki Sung 2023-05-23 $8,947,000
11637467 Adhesive mixture including hard magnetic material for e-machine rotor Chuanbing Rong, Chun Tang, Wanfeng Li, Michael W. Degner 2023-04-25 $18,761,000
11621594 Electric machine rotor Chun Tang, Michael W. Degner, Jacob Krizan 2023-04-04 $10,438,000
11616409 Electric machine rotor Chun Tang, Michael W. Degner, Jacob Krizan 2023-03-28 $20,341,000
11557947 Stators and rotors with varying insulative density Michael W. Degner 2023-01-17 $15,841,000