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John A. Cafeo — 17 Patents

General Motors: 17 patents #830 of 18,328Top 5%
HLHrl Laboratories: 1 patents #490 of 709Top 70%
Farmington, MI: #20 of 283 inventorsTop 8%
Michigan: #5,079 of 86,293 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
John A. Cafeo has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at General Motors. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in February 2022. John A. Cafeo ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list John A. Cafeo in Farmington, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2010.peak 31989: 1 patents19892009: 1 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 2 patents2012: 1 patents20122014: 3 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11244115 Hypergraph-based method for segmenting and clustering customer observables for vehicles Jiejun Xu, Tsai-Ching Lu, Dnyanesh Rajpathak 2022-02-08
11155153 Energy sharing system and method for a vehicle Madhusudan Raghavan, Wei Li, Anil Bika, Azeem Sarwar, Ran Y. Gazit +3 more 2021-10-26 $50,550,000
10482178 Semantic similarity analysis to determine relatedness of heterogeneous data Dnyanesh Rajpathak, Baiyang Wang 2019-11-19 $7,776,000
9539986 Enhanced vehicle wiper blade using active materials Nicholas W. Pinto, IV, Scott R. Webb, Alan L. Browne, Paul W. Alexander, Xiujie Gao +2 more 2017-01-10 $15,540,000
9358956 Enhanced vehicle wiper blade using active materials Nicholas W. Pinto, IV, Scott R. Webb, Alan L. Browne, Paul W. Alexander, Xiujie Gao +2 more 2016-06-07 $9,750,000
9317596 Function-based method for classifying and fusing system behavior information in product development Joseph A. Donndelinger, Soumen De, Dnyanesh Rajpathak, Prakash Mohan Peranandam, Kay L. Darden 2016-04-19 $13,382,000
8769946 Cooling system Paul W. Alexander, Alan L. Browne, Nancy L. Johnson, Patrick B. Usoro, Nilesh D. Mankame +3 more 2014-07-08 $6,643,000
8769947 Exhaust system Paul W. Alexander, Alan L. Browne, Nancy L. Johnson, Patrick B. Usoro, Nilesh D. Mankame +4 more 2014-07-08 $6,643,000
8677550 Vehicle wiper blade including active material de-icer Nicholas W. Pinto, IV, Scott R. Webb, Paul W. Alexander, Alan L. Browne, Nancy L. Johnson +1 more 2014-03-25 $6,950,000
8246100 Active material based closure hinge and latch assembly Alan L. Browne, Gary L. Jones, Nancy L. Johnson 2012-08-21 $9,843,000
8061550 Reconfigurable storage bins having a structural component formed of a shape memory material Alan L. Browne, Nancy L. Johnson, Robert R. Mayer, Jan H. Aase 2011-11-22 $8,872,000
7967367 Active material based closure hinge and alignment process Alan L. Browne, Gary L. Jones, Nancy L. Johnson 2011-06-28 $13,770,000
7758121 Active material based conformable and reconfigurable seats Alan L. Browne, Nancy L. Johnson, Pablo D. Zavattieri, Ukpai I. Ukpai, John C. Ulicny +6 more 2010-07-20
7677639 Active material based closure hinge and alignment process Alan L. Browne, Gary L. Jones, Nancy L. Johnson 2010-03-16
7655170 Adjustable shims and washers Alan L. Browne, Nancy L. Johnson 2010-02-02
7538472 Programmable shims for manufacturing and assembly lines Alan L. Browne, Charles W. Wampler, II, Andrew C. Keefe, Nancy L. Johnson, Gary L. Jones +2 more 2009-05-26 $1,720,000
4852527 Low noise valve train John M. Beardmore 1989-08-01