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Kenneth Frederick — 20 Patents

Ford: 18 patents #974 of 17,473Top 6%
UPUPS: 2 patents #267 of 650Top 45%
Dearborn, MI: #89 of 1,494 inventorsTop 6%
Michigan: #4,078 of 86,293 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Kenneth Frederick has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in December 2024. Kenneth Frederick ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Kenneth Frederick in Dearborn, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2020.peak 52008: 1 patents20082010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 3 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents2020: 5 patents20202021: 2 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12168434 Hybrid vehicle engine start/stop system Christopher Michael Kava, Floyd Cadwell, Justin Reuel Badger 2024-12-17 $19,597,000
11092049 Methods and system for operating an engine Justin Reuel Badger, Robert Hurley 2021-08-17 $15,508,000
10969011 Method and system for disengaging parking pawl in hybrid transmission Robert Hurley 2021-04-06 $11,554,000
10876511 Methods and system for automatically stopping an engine Justin Reuel Badger, Robert Hurley 2020-12-29 $12,914,000
10857991 Hybrid vehicle engine start/stop system Christopher Michael Kava, Floyd Cadwell, Justin Reuel Badger 2020-12-08 $12,431,000
10746150 Methods and system for automatically stopping an engine Justin Reuel Badger, Robert Hurley 2020-08-18 $4,408,000
10632996 Systems and methods for controlling a hybrid electric powertrain Craig Lechlitner, Floyd Cadwell 2020-04-28 $2,369,000
10569763 HEV engine start vibration reduction system Yu-Hua Liu, Floyd Cadwell, Xiaoyong Wang 2020-02-25 $3,146,000
10093304 Enhanced electric drive mode having predicted destinations to reduce engine starts Jimmy Kapadia, Kenneth James Miller 2018-10-09 $3,074,000
9932914 Method for increasing electric operation in hybrid electric vehicles Mohamad Mansour, Shunsuke Okubo, Carol Louise Okubo, Paul Stephen Bryan, Floyd Cadwell 2018-04-03 $5,065,000
9789873 Vehicle coasting control system and method Dale Scott Crombez, Ryan J. Skaff 2017-10-17 $6,097,000
8818589 System and method for controlling a vehicle Matthew David Smith 2014-08-26 $12,939,000
8718896 Hybrid vehicle and associated output torque control method Qing Wang, Ming Lang Kuang, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Ryan Abraham McGee 2014-05-06 $15,859,000
8676415 Engine power demand load-leveling for a hybrid electric vehicle Carol Louise Okubo, Christopher Alan Lear 2014-03-18 $23,745,000
8467927 Method and system for speed control of a hybrid vehicle Scott James Thompson 2013-06-18 $14,373,000
8215429 Generator power-based cold start strategy Paul Stephen Bryan, Christopher Adam Ochocinski, Shunsuke Okubo 2012-07-10 $12,658,000
8020652 Generator power-based cold start strategy Paul Stephen Bryan, Christopher Adam Ochocinski, Shunsuke Okubo 2011-09-20 $22,325,000
7832198 System and method for controlling an operating temperature of a catalyst of a vehicle exhaust system Shunsuke Okubo, Ming Lang Kuang, Matthew David Smith 2010-11-16 $22,495,000
7752143 Method and system for add-in module for obtaining shipping information 2010-07-06 $83,362,000
7349854 Method, apparatus and medium for obtaining shipping information 2008-03-25 $177,971,000