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John F. Nathan — 50 Patents

LELear: 49 patents #10 of 1,996Top 1%
Oracle: 1 patents #8,339 of 14,854Top 60%
Waterford Township, MI: #2 of 276 inventorsTop 1%
Michigan: #939 of 86,293 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #53,743 of 4,157,543Top 2%
50 Patents All Time
John F. Nathan has been granted 50 US patents while listed as an inventor at Lear. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in April 2015. John F. Nathan ranks #53,743 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list John F. Nathan in Waterford Township, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2006.peak 132004: 1 patents20042005: 3 patents2006: 13 patents20062007: 4 patents2008: 2 patents20082009: 7 patents2010: 8 patents20102011: 6 patents2012: 2 patents20122014: 3 patents2015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 50 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9013319 Vehicle inlet for use in charging a battery of an electric vehicle (EV) or a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) Reinhard Pusch, Keith R. Kwasny 2015-04-21 $18,134,000
8729856 Thermal wall plug sensing and control David A. Hein, Faisal K. Sallam, Mark Anthony Mueller 2014-05-20 $26,542,000
8686940 Haptic alert waveform generation method and system Karl Kennedy, Santosh Karumathil 2014-04-01 $27,906,000
8668506 Charger receptacle John Stack, Slobodan Pavlovic 2014-03-11 $24,675,000
8141947 Haptic seating system Arti Rohit Mujumdar, Santosh Karumathil, Sandhya Singh, Karl Kennedy 2012-03-27 $14,731,000
8118367 Multi-load floor smartfold hybrid H. Winston Maue, Mark R. Keyser 2012-02-21 $29,099,000
8066324 Reduced power heat mat Karl Kennedy, H. Winston Maue, Santosh Karumathil 2011-11-29 $11,555,000
8052216 Seat fold actuator H. Winston Maue 2011-11-08 $13,201,000
8000887 Method and system of directing vehicles traveling over roadway during emergency H. Winston Maue 2011-08-16 $25,583,000
7965170 Supervised and unsupervised seat folding Karl Kennedy 2011-06-21 $5,894,000
7963793 Hybrid/electric vehicle charge handle latch mechanism Marc Poulin, Keith R. Kwasny, Slobadan Pavlovic, Scott Selesky 2011-06-21 $5,894,000
7916008 RFID systems for vehicular applications H. Winston Maue 2011-03-29 $12,677,000
7841663 Vehicle seat lumbar system 2010-11-30 $11,381,000
7831379 Roadside signage control from vehicle operating data H. Winston Maue 2010-11-09 $21,658,000
7808394 Seat folding apparatus with a passive radio frequency link and foreign object detection system Tom Tang, Riad Ghabra 2010-10-05 $33,326,000
7775596 Smartfold electronic actuation Karl Kennedy, Samuel Hanlon, H. Winston Maue 2010-08-17 $5,919,000
7726742 Vehicle seat having a recliner mechanism Mark R. Keyser, H. Winston Maue, Karl Kennedy 2010-06-01 $78,686,000
7709995 Shape memory alloy wire latch actuator Samuel Hanlon, H. Winston Maue, Mark R. Keyser, Karl Kennedy 2010-05-04 $34,403,000
7709763 Rotational based actuator configured to impart linear movement H. Winston Maue 2010-05-04 $34,403,000
7681949 Haptic vehicle seat H. Winston Maue, David A. Powell, Oliver J. Young 2010-03-23 $48,307,000
7633252 Bidirectional motor stall protection circuit H. Winston Maue, Michael Pajor, Michael Noorman, John R. Ballard, Jerremy Anderson +1 more 2009-12-15 $144,664,000
7581706 Shape memory alloy (SMA) system Karl Kennedy, H. Winston Maue 2009-09-01
7556315 Latch actuator system H. Winston Maue 2009-07-07
7551068 Vehicle seat alert system David A. Powell, H. Winston Maue, Oliver J. Young 2009-06-23 $1,011,000
7547070 Seat fold actuator H. Winston Maue 2009-06-16 $4,944,000