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Wonhee M. Kim — 39 Patents

General Motors: 39 patents #248 of 18,328Top 2%
University of Michigan: 6 patents #297 of 4,352Top 7%
Royal Oak, MI: #14 of 1,428 inventorsTop 1%
Michigan: #1,422 of 86,293 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #81,245 of 4,157,543Top 2%
39 Patents All Time
Wonhee M. Kim has been granted 39 US patents while listed as an inventor at General Motors. The first was granted in 2019 and the most recent in September 2025. Wonhee M. Kim ranks #81,245 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Wonhee M. Kim in Royal Oak, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2019 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2023.peak 102019: 2 patents20192020: 5 patents20202021: 8 patents20212022: 5 patents20222023: 10 patents20232024: 6 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 39 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12410021 Deployable truck ramp with bladders Paul W. Alexander, Craig A. Kollar, Joseph M. Polewarczyk, Bhavesh Shah, Rafael Gabriel Casalduc 2025-09-09
12365306 Extendable arm assembly Paul W. Alexander, Tiantian LI 2025-07-22
12194910 Variable friction cargo surface system for vehicles Paul W. Alexander, Diann Brei, Jonathan E. Luntz, Koray Benli, Laura Alejandra Giner Munoz 2025-01-14
12115891 Cushion member having variable stiffness Nilesh D. Mankame, Paul W. Alexander 2024-10-15 $27,145,000
12104672 Inflatable with elastic constraint tethers Paul W. Alexander, Diann Brei, Jonathan E. Luntz, Koray Benli 2024-10-01 $31,813,000
11975643 Seat upper arm supports Nilesh D. Mankame, Chin-Hsu Lin, Paul W. Alexander, Manuel Forero Rueda 2024-05-07 $46,476,000
11951051 Lifting system and vehicle including a lifting system Paul W. Alexander 2024-04-09 $12,565,000
11912546 Load lifting tensioned inflatable structure Paul W. Alexander, Yun-Ju Kim, Diann Brei, Koray Benli, Jonathan E. Luntz +1 more 2024-02-27 $12,163,000
11897408 Inflatables used to address rollover Jeff E. Nasca, Daniel W. Booth, Peter J. Gareau, William J. Barnes 2024-02-13 $26,782,000
11840395 Inflatable insulation panel and vehicle including inflatable insulation panels that define a cargo area of the vehicle Paul E. Krajewski, Taeyoung Han 2023-12-12 $23,069,000
11760292 Sleeping bedsheet crash protection system for lie-flat sleeping passenger Yi-Pen Cheng, Chin-Hsu Lin, Louis D. Thole 2023-09-19 $17,967,000
11745297 Shape control in gripping systems and methods HyungMin Chae, Tyson W. Brown, Mark A. Smith, Richard J. Skurkis 2023-09-05 $15,384,000
11698683 Distributed inflatable touch sensing Paul W. Alexander, Diann Brei, Jonathan E. Luntz, Koray Benli, Laura Alejandra Giner Munoz +1 more 2023-07-11 $27,511,000
11666998 Rigid insert shape control in layer jammming systems and methods HyungMin Chae, Tyson W. Brown, Richard J. Skurkis, Md Ashabul Anam 2023-06-06 $24,889,000
11658544 Shape memory alloy actuator for controlling coolant flowrate to a rotor of an electric motor SeungHwan Keum 2023-05-23 $14,600,000
11617438 Inflatable delivery cabinet Paul E. Krajewski, Paul W. Alexander 2023-04-04 $23,573,000
11614083 Internally tensioned inflatable structure that is posable in multiple positions Paul W. Alexander, Jonathan E. Luntz, Diann Brei, Laura Alejandra Giner Munoz, Kunj P. PATEL +2 more 2023-03-28 $29,468,000
11572949 Skin constrained inflatable bellows Paul W. Alexander, Diann Brei, Jonathan E. Luntz, Laura Alejandra Giner Munoz, Koray Benli +2 more 2023-02-07 $25,171,000
11541795 Reconfigurable seating and cargo systems with inflatable panels Paul W. Alexander, Louis D. Thole, Conner J. Stormer, Daniel W. Booth, David Acosta 2023-01-03 $23,292,000
11458808 Features of shutter system using modular SMA spring actuator Calin Tapuchievici, Nicholas J. Christoff, Kevin P. Nguyen 2022-10-04 $43,420,000
11390331 Reconfigurable pickup bed sides and endgate Louis D. Thole, Karan Moorjani, Paul W. Alexander 2022-07-19 $30,299,000
11351923 Masked fabrication inflatable devices Paul W. Alexander, Jonathan E. Luntz, Diann Brei, Laura Alejandra Giner Munoz, Boyu Wan +3 more 2022-06-07 $32,116,000
11299084 Selectively rigidizable membrane Paul W. Alexander, Jonathan E. Luntz, Diann Brei, Koray Benli, Sarah M. Sober +2 more 2022-04-12 $15,071,000
11260542 Universal vacuum cup and method of lifting an object HyungMin Chae, Dooil Hwang 2022-03-01 $39,272,000
11125253 Pneumatic articulating structure system with internal tile architecture Paul W. Alexander, Jonathan E. Luntz, Diann Brei, Koray Benli, Tiantian LI +4 more 2021-09-21 $47,256,000