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Michael Hafner — 31 Patents

Ford: 28 patents #560 of 17,473Top 4%
Zimmer: 1 patents #943 of 1,179Top 80%
The Boeing: 1 patents #8,630 of 15,756Top 55%
San Carlos, CA: #74 of 427 inventorsTop 20%
California: #16,606 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Michael Hafner has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in June 2025. Michael Hafner ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Michael Hafner in San Carlos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2017.peak 51998: 1 patents19982011: 1 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 5 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 4 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 4 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12330633 Obstacle avoidance for vehicle Abhishek Sharma, Mohit Srinivasan, Mrdjan J. Jankovic, Erol Dogan Sumer, Alexander Jaeckel +1 more 2025-06-17
12304515 Vehicle path adjustment Erol Dogan Sumer, Abhishek Sharma, Mohit Srinivasan, Alexander Jaeckel, Mrdjan J. Jankovic +1 more 2025-05-20
12296845 Vehicle path adjustment with control barrier function Mohit Srinivasan, Abhishek Sharma, Mrdjan J. Jankovic, Erol Dogan Sumer, Alexander Jaeckel +1 more 2025-05-13
12233857 Obstacle avoidance for vehicle Mohit Srinivasan, Hongtei Eric Tseng, Mrdjan J. Jankovic, Abhishek Sharma, Erol Dogan Sumer +2 more 2025-02-25
12172636 Vehicle path adjustment using a virtual boundary that is based on a shape of a vehicle body Mohit Srinivasan, Abhishek Sharma, Mrdjan J. Jankovic, Dogan Sumer, Alexander Jaeckel +1 more 2024-12-24 $13,297,000
11827217 Vehicle detection and response Mrdjan J. Jankovic, Yousaf Rahman, Abhishek Sharma, Mario Anthony Santillo 2023-11-28 $14,144,000
11673548 Vehicle detection and response Mrdjan J. Jankovic, Yousaf Rahman, Mario Anthony Santillo, Abhishek Sharma 2023-06-13 $17,133,000
11169520 Enhanced vehicle operation Nitendra Nath, Aaron L. Mills, Jonathan Scott Mcneely, Andrew Brown, Andreas Giersiefer +3 more 2021-11-09 $25,423,000
11142209 Vehicle road friction control Kyle Simmons, Eric Hongtei Tseng, Mohsen Lakehal-ayat 2021-10-12 $18,998,000
11124235 Speed optimized trajectory control for motor vehicles Erick Michael Lavoie, Nathaniel Abram Rolfes, Bradley G. Hochrein, Darrel Alan Recker, Donald Jacob Mattern 2021-09-21 $11,561,000
11117577 Vehicle path processing Nitendra Nath, Aaron L. Mills, Zhao Wang, Bahgat Aboushaban 2021-09-14 $14,764,000
10737693 Autonomous steering control Quazi Farooqi, Xingping Chen, Darrel Alan Recker 2020-08-11 $5,266,000
10710585 Trailer backup assist system with predictive hitch angle functionality Zheng Hu, Erick Michael Lavoie, Darrel Alan Recker, John P. Joyce, Donald Jacob Mattern +3 more 2020-07-14 $5,412,000
10479332 Vehicle parking assist system John Bales 2019-11-19
10286950 Speed optimized trajectory control for motor vehicles Erick Michael Lavoie, Nathaniel Abram Rolfes, Bradley G. Hochrein, Darrel Alan Recker, Donald Jacob Mattern 2019-05-14 $4,038,000
10279803 Trailer curvature control and mode management with powertrain and brake support Erick Michael Lavoie, Roger Arnold Trombley, Thomas Edward Pilutti, Nathaniel Abram Rolfes 2019-05-07 $5,783,000
10222804 Inertial reference for TBA speed limiting Brian George Buss 2019-03-05 $3,318,000
9981656 Vehicle parking assist system John Bales, Kevin Smith, Erick Michael Lavoie 2018-05-29 $5,236,000
9969428 Trailer backup assist system with waypoint selection John Shutko, Thomas Edward Pilutti, Roger Arnold Trombley 2018-05-15 $5,509,000
9926008 Trailer backup assist system with waypoint selection Thomas Edward Pilutti 2018-03-27 $4,309,000
9925988 Steering and braking control system Timothy D. Zwicky, Shane Elwart, Xingping Chen, Paul James Novak, Jiyi Liu +3 more 2018-03-27
9849864 Vehicle parking assist system John Bales 2017-12-26 $3,647,000
9783230 Trailer backup assist system with off-shoot correction Thomas Edward Pilutti 2017-10-10 $4,029,000
9708000 Trajectory planner for a trailer backup assist system Thomas Edward Pilutti 2017-07-18 $5,101,000
9676377 Speed limiting comfort enhancement Erick Michael Lavoie 2017-06-13 $4,312,000