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Walter Joseph Ortmann

Ford: 85 patents #126 of 17,473Top 1%
Saline, MI: #5 of 509 inventorsTop 1%
Michigan: #317 of 86,293 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #20,023 of 4,157,543Top 1%
85 Patents All Time

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Showing 1–25 of 85 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12358396 Predictive fuel cell and battery power management for high sustained load conditions Naginder Gogna, Jason Meyer, Stanley Larue Bower, Jr., Rajit Johri 2025-07-15
11912166 Methods and system for operating a fuel cell vehicle David Beck, Kenneth James Miller, Thomas Joseph Cusumano 2024-02-27
11865947 Regenerative braking control system for a hybrid or electric vehicle Ashish Kumar Naidu, Colby Jason Buckman, Mark Anthony Tascillo 2024-01-09
11623627 Engine start control system for a hybrid vehicle Naginder Gogna 2023-04-11
11440532 Method and system for controlling vehicle engine pull-down Ashish Kumar Naidu, Thomas Megli, Mrudula Uday Orpe 2022-09-13
11413970 System and method for improving traction of a vehicle that includes two electric machines David Beck, Matthew Erich von der Lippe, Kevin W. Higgins 2022-08-16
11326571 Methods and system for adaptively switching an engine starting device Jeffrey Allen Doering, James Alfred Hilditch, John Eric Rollinger, Jason Meyer 2022-05-10
11161510 Methods and system for operating a hybrid vehicle Jeffrey Allen Doering, Jason Meyer, Stan L. Bower, Xiaoyong Wang, Yanan Zhao +1 more 2021-11-02
11046299 Methods and system for operating a four wheel drive electric vehicle Jason Meyer, Jose Velazquez Alcantar, Rajit Johri, Kevin Ray Ruybal, Dushyant K. Palejiya 2021-06-29
10981571 Methods and system for operating a vehicle Rajit Johri, Kevin Ray Ruybal, Jose Velazquez Alcantar 2021-04-20
10910614 Electrified vehicles equipped with secondary battery packs Thomas J. Coupar, Kenneth James Miller 2021-02-02
10876617 Methods and system for operating a driveline Jason Meyer, Kevin Ray Ruybal, Jeffrey Allen Doering, Matthew John Shelton, Steven Anatole Frait 2020-12-29
10814727 Regenerative vehicle braking with wheel slip control and yaw stability control Yanan Zhao, Ming Lang Kuang, Dale Scott Crombez, Xiaoyong Wang 2020-10-27
10800275 Hybrid vehicle system Kenneth James Miller, Jude Berthault, Jeffrey Alan Palic 2020-10-13
10793124 Vehicle wheel torque control systems and methods Yanan Zhao, Ming Lang Kuang 2020-10-06
10774919 Systems and methods for improving driveline efficiencies of electrified vehicles Mark Steven Yamazaki, Scott James Thompson, David Crist Gabriel, Christopher Alan Lear 2020-09-15
10730393 Regenerative hybrid vehicle braking system and methods Dale Scott Crombez, David Messih, Yanan Zhao, Ming Lang Kuang, Joseph Jay Torres +1 more 2020-08-04
10562512 Methods and systems for operating a driveline of a hybrid engine powertrain Kenneth James Miller, Jason Meyer, Matthew John Shelton, Michael Glenn Fodor 2020-02-18
10486686 Methods and system for adjusting engine torque Jason Meyer, Jeffrey Allen Doering, Kevin Ray Ruybal 2019-11-26
10487891 Temperature based clutch control Bernard D. Nefcy, Todd McCullough, Christopher Alan Lear, Daniel Scott Colvin 2019-11-26
10473211 Methods and systems for improving hybrid vehicle cooling Bernard D. Nefcy, Marvin Paul Kraska 2019-11-12
10399440 Methods and system for regenerative hybrid vehicle braking Yanan Zhao, Ming Lang Kuang, Xiaoyong Wang, Dale Scott Crombez 2019-09-03
10369982 Hybrid vehicle and method of controlling an engine disconnect clutch for engine start-up Alexander O'Connor Gibson, Felix Nedorezov, Jeffrey Allen Doering, Xiaoyong Wang 2019-08-06
10308239 Powersplit hybrid powertrain with overdrive clutch Bernard D. Nefcy, Daniel Scott Colvin 2019-06-04
10239515 Hybrid vehicle and method of disengaging an overdrive clutch in a hybrid vehicle Bernard D. Nefcy, Daniel Scott Colvin, Luke Ottaway 2019-03-26