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James A. Carpenter — 38 Patents

General Motors: 35 patents #290 of 18,328Top 2%
VTVisteon Global Technologies: 1 patents #779 of 1,929Top 45%
Eagle, MI: #1 of 12 inventorsTop 9%
Michigan: #1,487 of 86,293 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #84,675 of 4,157,543Top 3%
38 Patents All Time
James A. Carpenter has been granted 38 US patents while listed as an inventor at General Motors. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in November 2025. James A. Carpenter ranks #84,675 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list James A. Carpenter in Eagle, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2019.peak 91993: 1 patents19932018: 6 patents20182019: 9 patents20192020: 7 patents20202021: 7 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 3 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 38 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12469423 Dynamic image enhancement for vehicle display Elijah Auger, Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf 2025-11-11
12372709 Display backlight for avoiding windshield reflections Pawel Murzyn, Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf 2025-07-29
11950913 Electrocardiogram sensor 2024-04-09
11772086 Multifunctional self-cleaning surface layer and methods of forming the same Thomas A. Seder, Gayatri Vyas Dadheech 2023-10-03 $15,798,000
11658204 Microled display with pixelated sensors Kai-Han Chang, Thomas A. Seder 2023-05-23 $14,600,000
11579340 Self-cleaning system for displays using light emitting diodes emitting invisible violet light Thomas A. Seder, Kai-Han Chang, Gayatri Vyas Dadheech 2023-02-14 $31,903,000
11448872 Light-enhanced self-cleaning film system and method of forming same Thomas A. Seder, Gayatri Vyas Dadheech 2022-09-20 $23,153,000
11341621 Enhanced imaging system for a motor vehicle Sai Vishnu Aluru, Jayasimha V. Rao 2022-05-24 $24,869,000
11200829 Grayscale and dimming control systems and methods using variable gamma Thomas A. Seder, Sungwook Cho 2021-12-14 $99,212,000
11179711 Self-cleaning film system and method of forming same Gayatri Vyas Dadheech, Thomas A. Seder 2021-11-23 $79,484,000
11067721 Textured self-cleaning film system and method of forming same Thomas A. Seder, Gayatri Vyas Dadheech 2021-07-20 $45,993,000
11059035 Self-cleaning film system and method of forming same Thomas A. Seder, Gayatri Vyas Dadheech 2021-07-13 $56,527,000
11007507 Self-cleaning film system Gayatri Vyas Dadheech, Thomas A. Seder 2021-05-18 $66,558,000
10981195 Method of forming a self-cleaning film system Gayatri Vyas Dadheech, Thomas A. Seder 2021-04-20 $26,620,000
10901588 Method and apparatus for location and calibration for controls on a touch surface Michael J. Boesch, Jayasimha V. Rao 2021-01-26 $67,120,000
10829665 Method of forming a self-cleaning film system Gayatri Vyas Dadheech, Thomas A. Seder 2020-11-10 $81,262,000
10754067 Textured self-cleaning film system and method of forming same Thomas A. Seder, Gayatri Vyas Dadheech 2020-08-25 $27,737,000
10747367 OBDII failure diagnostics techniques for knobs and buttons Jayasimha V. Rao, Michael J. Boesch, Zhongya Lou 2020-08-18 $26,981,000
10583428 Self-cleaning film system and method of forming same Thomas A. Seder, Gayatri Vyas Dadheech 2020-03-10 $23,112,000
10569263 Self-cleaning film system and method of forming same Gayatri Vyas Dadheech, Thomas A. Seder 2020-02-25 $8,506,000
10556231 Self-cleaning film system and method of forming same Gayatri Vyas Dadheech, Thomas A. Seder 2020-02-11 $12,010,000
10533249 Method of forming a self-cleaning film system Gayatri Vyas Dadheech, Thomas A. Seder 2020-01-14 $24,813,000
10486149 Nucleation layers for enhancing photocatalytic activity of titanium dioxide (TIO2) coatings Gayatri Vyas Dadheech, Thomas A. Seder 2019-11-26 $7,022,000
10474289 Touchscreen panel with heating function Thomas A. Seder, William E. Conway, Reno V. Ramsey, Davide Silvestri, George Degener 2019-11-12 $5,300,000
10429641 Light-enhanced self-cleaning film system and method of forming same Thomas A. Seder, Gayatri Vyas Dadheech 2019-10-01 $6,886,000