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Karl Kennedy — 13 Patents

LELear: 12 patents #98 of 1,996Top 5%
Mentor, OH: #47 of 709 inventorsTop 7%
Ohio: #5,928 of 73,341 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Karl Kennedy has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Lear. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in April 2014. Karl Kennedy ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Karl Kennedy in Mentor, OH, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8686940 Haptic alert waveform generation method and system John F. Nathan, Santosh Karumathil 2014-04-01 $27,906,000
8141947 Haptic seating system John F. Nathan, Arti Rohit Mujumdar, Santosh Karumathil, Sandhya Singh 2012-03-27 $14,731,000
8066324 Reduced power heat mat John F. Nathan, H. Winston Maue, Santosh Karumathil 2011-11-29 $11,555,000
7965170 Supervised and unsupervised seat folding John F. Nathan 2011-06-21 $5,894,000
7775596 Smartfold electronic actuation John F. Nathan, Samuel Hanlon, H. Winston Maue 2010-08-17 $5,919,000
7726742 Vehicle seat having a recliner mechanism Mark R. Keyser, H. Winston Maue, John F. Nathan 2010-06-01 $78,686,000
7709995 Shape memory alloy wire latch actuator Samuel Hanlon, John F. Nathan, H. Winston Maue, Mark R. Keyser 2010-05-04 $34,403,000
7708437 Instrument panel system having concealed switches David A. Hein, Christopher Spielman, Gregory Breakey, Thomas J. Fowler 2010-05-04 $34,403,000
7581706 Shape memory alloy (SMA) system H. Winston Maue, John F. Nathan 2009-09-01
7519461 Discriminate input system for decision algorithm Christopher Ricard, John F. Nathan 2009-04-14 $546,000
7053759 Method of determining an equivalent value for a failed sensor in a vehicle seat having an occupancy sensing system Shridhar Malayappan, John F. Nathan, Christopher Ricard, Oliver J. Young 2006-05-30 $5,477,000
7034670 Method of occupancy classification in a vehicle seat John F. Nathan, Christopher Ricard 2006-04-25 $2,291,000
5730345 Bicycle rack Brad Yeckley, Morris George 1998-03-24