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Stuart N. Ford — 22 Patents

Ford: 20 patents #857 of 17,473Top 5%
Farmington Hills, MI: #79 of 2,032 inventorsTop 4%
Michigan: #3,548 of 86,293 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Stuart N. Ford has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in November 2024. Stuart N. Ford ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Stuart N. Ford in Farmington Hills, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2019.peak 41994: 1 patents19942000: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 2 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 4 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 3 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12146536 Method and system for a vehicle clutch performance detection system using clutch torque and clutch pressure Weitian Chen, Ankit Saini, Qingyu Zhang, Scott Joseph Gittins, Zhengyu Dai +1 more 2024-11-19 $24,641,000
11787412 Methods and systems for NVH-based vehicle powertrain control Adam Nathan Banker 2023-10-17 $11,685,000
11628818 Methods and system for stopping an engine of a hybrid vehicle Yanan Zhao, Christopher John Teslak, Ralph Wayne Cunningham, Judhajit Roy, Chenliu Stephen Lu +1 more 2023-04-18 $13,247,000
11220253 Methods and system for reactivating engine cylinders Amey Y. Karnik, Jeffrey Allen Doering, Adam Nathan Banker 2022-01-11 $37,119,000
11142207 Methods and systems for NVH-based vehicle powertrain control Adam Nathan Banker 2021-10-12 $18,998,000
10994734 Methods and system for controlling launch of a vehicle having an automatic transmission Weitian Chen, Yang Xu, Zhengyu Dai, Qi Wang, Hong Jiang 2021-05-04 $17,560,000
10920705 Method and system for variable displacement engine John Erik Mikael Hellstrom, Bradley Dean Riedle 2021-02-16 $9,885,000
10800396 Methods and system for adapting operation of a driveline disconnect clutch Alexander O'Connor Gibson, Corey James Blue 2020-10-13 $3,908,000
10746291 Engine torque and torque converter bypass clutch slip control during vehicle launch Yang Xu, Weitian Chen, Zhengyu Dai, Qi Wang, Hong Jiang 2020-08-18 $4,408,000
10661784 Operating methods and system for a driveline disconnect clutch Corey James Blue, Todd McCullough 2020-05-26 $30,440,000
10625730 System and method for starting a hybrid powertrain for a vehicle Todd McCullough, Scott James Thompson, Minku Lee 2020-04-21 $2,515,000
10518781 Powertrain with anti-shuffle control Weitian Chen, Zhengyu Dai, Todd McCullough, Hong Jiang 2019-12-31
10451125 Vehicle transmission clutch engagement control system Gregory Michael Pietron, Qi Wang, Yuji Fujii, Rohit Hippalgaonkar, Joseph F. Kucharski +1 more 2019-10-22
10393258 Hybrid vehicle clutch control system Yanan Zhao, Bernard D. Nefcy, Bradley Dean Riedle 2019-08-27
10189468 Paddle shifter control of hybrid powertrain Bernard D. Nefcy, Ming Lang Kuang, Brian Thomas Soo, Mark Davison, Matthew Joseph Meinhart 2019-01-29 $4,361,000
10150467 Control of transmission during regenerative braking Todd McCullough, Bernard D. Nefcy 2018-12-11 $4,232,000
10071724 Regenerative torque limit control Yanan Zhao, Ming Lang Kuang, Bernard D. Nefcy, Todd McCullough 2018-09-11 $5,747,000
9650047 Method of operating a transmission clutch Matthew John Shelton, Alexander O'Connor Gibson, James William Loch McCallum, Hong Jiang 2017-05-16 $5,735,000
9643590 Methods and system for shifting a hybrid vehicle Alexander O'Connor Gibson, Felix Nedorezov, Matthew John Shelton, Todd McCullough 2017-05-09 $5,187,000
9527505 Methods and system for operating a driveline disconnect clutch Alexander O'Connor Gibson, Todd McCullough, Felix Nedorezov, Akshay Bichkar, Walter Joseph Ortmann 2016-12-27 $5,130,000
6058806 Automatic chain saw sharpener 2000-05-09
5340035 Combination chipper and shredder apparatus and lawn vacuum machine 1994-08-23