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John Sparkman — 16 Patents

General Motors: 8 patents #1,982 of 18,328Top 15%
Delphi Technologies: 3 patents #1,040 of 4,124Top 30%
AAAutoliv Development Ab: 2 patents #289 of 1,363Top 25%
HSHill-Rom Services: 2 patents #488 of 861Top 60%
Orlando, FL: #201 of 4,387 inventorsTop 5%
Florida: #3,136 of 67,251 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
John Sparkman has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at General Motors. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in October 2019. John Sparkman ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list John Sparkman in Orlando, FL, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10426370 Electromyographic controlled vehicles and chairs Brendan Jones, Albert Manero, II 2019-10-01
9687401 Person support apparatuses having exercise therapy features Shelley L. Alford, John V. Harmeyer, David W. Hornbach, Robert M. Zerhusen, Michael P. Bish +2 more 2017-06-27 $24,083,000
8701230 Core instability system Robert M. Zerhusen, Charles A. Howell 2014-04-22 $10,464,000
8037905 Gas fill process and inflator weld design simplification Charles M. Woods, William H. Phipps 2011-10-18 $27,961,000
7959185 Inflator bottle for combustible gas mixture Charles M. Woods, William H. Phipps 2011-06-14 $10,387,000
6799777 Apparatus and methods of venting gas in an airbag module Laura Hawthorn, Stephanie Dunkle, Mark T. Winters, Shawn Ryan, Ann Kneisly +1 more 2004-10-05 $1,100,000
6203061 Variable output air bag module with PAV heat sink Robert Raymond Niederman, Allen Richard Starner, Shawn Ryan, Graham Thornton Spencer 2001-03-20 $25,714,000
6196582 Variable output inflator for an air bag Shawn Ryan, Allen Richard Starner, Robert Raymond Niederman 2001-03-06 $17,142,000
5803486 Air bag module with mounting and diffuser bracket Graham Thornton Spencer, James L. Webber, Margaret Ann Fisher, Mark Harvey Doxey 1998-09-08
5700028 Air bag module with energy absorbing mounting bracket Jeffrey Allen Logan, John Clifford Hattery, Jr., David A. Pray 1997-12-23
5690354 Air bag module Jeffrey Allen Logan, John Clifford Hattery, Jr., Graham Thornton Spencer, Margaret Ann Fisher 1997-11-25
5687987 Air bag module with clamshell cover Graham Thornton Spencer, Margaret Ann Fisher, James L. Webber 1997-11-18
5605350 Air bag fold and method Sonya A. Bates 1997-02-25
5560648 Air bag deployment bias apparatus Daniel Allen Rhule 1996-10-01
5498030 Air bag module Timothy W. Hill, Mark A. Oleszko, Graham Thornton Spencer 1996-03-12
5409256 Driver-side air bag module assembly John E. Gordon, Robert E. Huffman, David Schenck, Steven W. Stukenborg, Robert Bowser 1995-04-25