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Christopher H. Knieper — 12 Patents

General Motors: 10 patents #1,567 of 18,328Top 9%
Delphi Technologies: 2 patents #1,417 of 4,124Top 35%
Owosso, MI: #4 of 136 inventorsTop 3%
Michigan: #7,722 of 86,293 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Christopher H. Knieper has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at General Motors. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in May 2021. Christopher H. Knieper ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Christopher H. Knieper in Owosso, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2018.peak 32006: 2 patents20062014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152018: 3 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents20202021: 2 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10996134 Coolant leak diagnosis Shiming Duan, Paul E. Krajewski, Calvin S. Wang 2021-05-04 $40,166,000
10975857 Cooling sysytem mechanical pump diagnosis Michael A. Smith, Eugene V. Gonze, Eric E. Klauser 2021-04-13 $34,757,000
10857854 Cooling system air flow diagnosis Shiming Duan, Calvin S. Wang 2020-12-08 $39,095,000
10672205 Method and apparatus to monitor an on-vehicle fluidic subsystem Shiming Duan, Yao Hu 2020-06-02 $16,247,000
10273867 Prognostic system and method for an electric coolant pump Shiming Duan 2019-04-30 $9,833,000
10054030 Engine cooling systems and methods Shiming Duan 2018-08-21 $9,824,000
10006335 Coolant temperature correction systems and methods Eugene V. Gonze, Vijay Ramappan 2018-06-26 $12,799,000
9964022 Engine off cooling strategy Eugene V. Gonze, Yue-Ming Chen, Vijay Ramappan 2018-05-08 $16,307,000
9086026 System and method for controlling torque output of an engine when a water pump coupled to the engine is switched on or off Stephen Paul Levijoki 2015-07-21 $9,446,000
8900095 Automatic transmission synchronous gear shift Christopher E. Whitney, Ronald W. Van Diepen, Ning Jin, Matthew D. Whitton 2014-12-02 $11,608,000
7036366 Air flow measurement system having reduced sensitivity to flow field changes Charles G. Emmert, Jr., Dan H. Emmert, Edward R. Fizell 2006-05-02
7021284 Method and apparatus for minimizing engine air tip-in noise Keith A. Confer, Gary A. Nichols 2006-04-04