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Gregory Thomas Hedderly — 28 Patents

Ford: 25 patents #638 of 17,473Top 4%
VTVisteon Global Technologies: 3 patents #313 of 1,929Top 20%
Livonia, MI: #36 of 1,586 inventorsTop 3%
Michigan: #2,413 of 86,293 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Gregory Thomas Hedderly has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in November 2012. Gregory Thomas Hedderly ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Gregory Thomas Hedderly in Livonia, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2010.peak 71996: 3 patents19961997: 2 patents19972000: 2 patents20002001: 2 patents20012002: 3 patents20022003: 1 patents20032009: 4 patents20092010: 7 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 3 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8317964 Method of manufacturing a vehicle 2012-11-27 $54,530,000
8177277 Vehicle having a body panel 2012-05-15 $10,016,000
8123284 Vehicle body component and mating feature 2012-02-28 $27,806,000
8038205 Vehicle having a passenger compartment body structure 2011-10-18 $37,086,000
7850226 Vehicle having a passenger compartment body structure 2010-12-14 $49,784,000
7849601 Method of manufacturing a vehicle 2010-12-14 $49,784,000
7810876 Vehicle having a rear end body structure 2010-10-12 $22,371,000
7798560 Vehicle body structure 2010-09-21 $27,824,000
7717465 Vehicle having an engine support structure 2010-05-18 $25,369,000
7703841 Vehicle body assembly 2010-04-27 $46,225,000
7677649 Vehicle having an interlocking floor assembly 2010-03-16 $52,980,000
7618087 Vehicle having a front end body structure 2009-11-17 $67,167,000
7594690 Vehicle having a closure system 2009-09-29 $82,271,000
7591502 Tunable inner fender structure 2009-09-22 $96,939,000
7571954 Inner fender structure 2009-08-11 $65,015,000
6517145 Integrated steering column, instrument panel, and cowl body structure 2003-02-11 $14,055,000
6488330 Integrated steering column, instrument panel, and cowl body structure 2002-12-03 $14,533,000
6460427 Adjustment linkage for tilting and telescoping a steering column assembly 2002-10-08 $14,705,000
6371551 Integrated steering column, instrument panel, and cowl body structure 2002-04-16 $23,053,000
6237439 Single release lever for steering column tilt and telescope William Francis Weber, Thomas Junior Luckett, Patricia Kaye Kutsche 2001-05-29 $16,170,000
6234040 Rotating, traveling energy absorber for steering column William Francis Weber, Thomas Junior Luckett, Patricia Kaye Kutsche 2001-05-22 $8,119,000
6152488 Steering column with variable collapse force Craig Hammann Stephan, Edward Joseph Abramoski, Joseph Paul Tekelly, Leonard Murray Brown 2000-11-28 $62,152,000
6152489 Integrated steering column and instrument panel structure apparatus Robert Daniel Restauri, Michael Patrick Rodgers, William L. Fisher, Kumar Balakrishna Kulkarni, Thomas Junior Luckett +1 more 2000-11-28 $7,021,000
5609063 Steering column support for a collapsible steering column Lisa A. Tyus, Leonard Murray Brown 1997-03-11 $15,952,000
5606892 Modular steering column assembly 1997-03-04 $19,156,000