James E. Trainor — 16 Patents at Gentex

James E. Trainor has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Gentex. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in June 2025. James E. Trainor ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list James E. Trainor in Cedar Rapids, IA, US.

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Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12325456	Systems and methods for detecting brake system anomalies	James A. Oswald, Ann K. Grimm, Kevin Angel, Phillip A. Burgart, Kendrick W. Gawne	2025-06-10
12286951	Cloud-enabled vehicle autostart monitoring	Laura Crawford, Garth Wesley Hopkins, Oddy Khamharn, Edward James Lukas, Erich Struckmeyer	2025-04-29
11958512	Monitoring and communication device of a vehicle	Carl L. Haas, Padam Dhoj Swar, Danial Rice, Christopher Claussen, Joseph Gorman +8 more	2024-04-16	$99,336,000
11890965	Vehicle control system and method	James A. Oswald, Jeffrey John Wolff, Timothy W. Brown, Henry Todd Young, Lindsay Short +9 more	2024-02-06	$32,809,000
11773815	Cloud-enabled vehicle autostart monitoring	Laura Crawford, Garth Wesley Hopkins, Oddy Khamharn, Edward James Lukas, Erich Struckmeyer	2023-10-03
11248576	Cloud-enabled vehicle autostart monitoring	Laura Crawford, Garth Wesley Hopkins, Oddy Khamharn, Edward James Lukas, Erich Struckmeyer	2022-02-15
10045183	System and method for configuring a wireless control system of a vehicle	Richard J. Chutorash, Philip J. Vanderwall, Mark L. Zeinstra	2018-08-07	$10,157,000
9600950	Communication system and method	Richard J. Chutorash, Jeffrey Golden, Steven L. Geerlings	2017-03-21	$11,630,000
9406035	System and method of communications	Jeffrey Coil, Jamie Scherkenbach, Roland Kane	2016-08-02
9324230	System and method for configuring a wireless control system of a vehicle using induction field communication	Richard J. Chutorash, Philip J. Vanderwall, Mark L. Zeinstra	2016-04-26	$18,459,000
9189952	Communication system and method	Richard J. Chutorash, Jeffrey Golden, Steven L. Geerlings	2015-11-17	$9,037,000
8878646	Communication system and method	Richard J. Chutorash, Jeffrey Golden, Steven L. Geerlings	2014-11-04	$6,054,000
8843066	System and method for configuring a wireless control system of a vehicle using induction field communication	Richard J. Chutorash, Philip J. Vanderwall, Mark L. Zeinstra	2014-09-23	$8,787,000
8165527	System and method for short-range communication for a vehicle	Michael J. Sims, Carl L. Shearer, Steven L. Geerlings, Todd R. Witkowski, Paul S. Vanlente +1 more	2012-04-24	$58,794,000
6337691	Image data transfer	—	2002-01-08
4550244	Large plate arc welder	John David West, James D. Karman	1985-10-29	$1,135,000

James E. Trainor — 16 Patents

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