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Frederic Stefan — 59 Patents

Ford: 59 patents #219 of 17,473Top 2%
Hohenwaldhausen, DE: #1 of 5 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #40,067 of 4,157,543Top 1%
59 Patents All Time
Frederic Stefan has been granted 59 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in February 2025. Frederic Stefan ranks #40,067 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.96%). Patent records list Frederic Stefan in Hohenwaldhausen, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2015 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2019.peak 122015: 4 patents20152016: 4 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 9 patents2019: 12 patents20192020: 11 patents2021: 5 patents20212022: 4 patents2023: 3 patents20232024: 3 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 59 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12236629 Operating a motor vehicle with stereo camera and LIDAR Turgay Isik Aslandere, Evangelos Bitsanis, Michael Marbaix, Alain Marie Roger Chevalier 2025-02-25
12172574 Method for operating a motor vehicle Christoph Arndt Dr habil 2024-12-24 $13,297,000
12159533 Method for passing along narrow roads Christoph Arndt Dr habil 2024-12-03 $18,435,000
11872981 Operating a motor vehicle with onboard and cloud-based data Christoph Arndt 2024-01-16 $13,437,000
11670075 Adaptation of passage between two vehicles 2023-06-06 $25,869,000
11590964 Method for performing automatic valet parking Michael Marbaix, Evangelos Bitsanis, Turgay Isik Aslandere, Alain Marie Roger Chevalier 2023-02-28 $22,894,000
11544430 Advanced model mapping and simulations Turgay Isik Aslandere, Evangelos Bitsanis, Michael Marbaix, Alain Marie Roger Chevalier 2023-01-03 $9,785,000
11535156 Apparatus for monitoring the blind spot of a motor vehicle Christoph Arndt, Uwe Gussen 2022-12-27 $14,488,000
11400857 Method for operating a high-beam assistance system of a motor vehicle Christoph Arndt, Anke DIECKMANN 2022-08-02 $19,323,000
11242070 Apparatus and method for determining an attention requirement level of a driver of a vehicle 2022-02-08 $97,709,000
11232654 X-in-the-loop tests for self-driving motor vehicles Alain Marie Roger Chevalier, Michael Marbaix, Evangelos Bitsanis, Turgay Isik Aslandere 2022-01-25 $35,126,000
11208110 Method for modeling a motor vehicle sensor in a virtual test environment Alain Marie Roger Chevalier, Michael Marbaix, Evangelos Bitsanis 2021-12-28 $17,869,000
11173924 Test for self-driving motor vehicle Evangelos Bitsanis, Turgay Isik Aslandere, Michael Marbaix, Alain Marie Roger Chevalier 2021-11-16 $25,168,000
11062437 Method for monitoring damage to motor vehicles 2021-07-13 $11,580,000
10988145 Method and device for a vehicle control procedure Erik Alpman, Urs Christen, Rainer Busch 2021-04-27 $8,465,000
10976435 Active parking assist system for a motor vehicle Christoph Arndt Dr habil, Uwe Gussen, Frank Petri 2021-04-13 $14,465,000
10831194 Method and device that recognizes road users in an environment of a vehicle Christoph Arndt, Uwe Gussen 2020-11-10 $6,316,000
10823844 Method and apparatus for analysis of a vehicle environment, and vehicle equipped with such a device Christoph Arndt, Uwe Gussen 2020-11-03 $3,829,000
10800425 Method and system for preventing concentration errors when driving a motor vehicle Uwe Gussen, Christoph Arndt 2020-10-13 $3,908,000
10789787 Method and system for remote control of motor vehicles Uwe Gussen, Christoph Arndt, Rainer Busch 2020-09-29 $6,689,000
10739258 Device that generates salt-state information of a road Uwe Gussen, Christoph Arndt, Frank Petri 2020-08-11 $5,266,000
10710577 Method for operating a driver assistance system to perform an autonomous parking maneuver Uwe Gussen, Christoph Arndt, Rainer Busch 2020-07-14 $5,412,000
10703412 Parking aid for parking on an oncoming lane 2020-07-07 $2,344,000
10697226 Method for automatic closure of a vehicle tailgate Uwe Gussen, Christoph Arndt 2020-06-30 $4,640,000
10597029 Dynamic parking using an assistance system Christoph Arndt 2020-03-24 $2,202,000