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Chad Reed — 13 Patents

MEMethode Electronics: 10 patents #13 of 253Top 6%
Ford: 5 patents #3,393 of 17,473Top 20%
SSSiemens Transportation Systems: 1 patents #2 of 14Top 15%
Ypsilanti, MI: #96 of 1,007 inventorsTop 10%
Michigan: #7,031 of 86,293 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Chad Reed has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Methode Electronics. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in January 2025. Chad Reed ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Chad Reed in Ypsilanti, MI, US.

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Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12187294 Differential transfer case torque sensor apparatus and method Johannes Gießibl 2025-01-07
12138973 Methods and apparatus for a dual reacting, single load sensing element coupled to a hitch receiver Andrew Niedert, Kevin Stanton Giaier, Elliott Pearson, Anton Rogness, Johannes Gießibl 2024-11-12 $13,385,000
11787248 Modular double pin load sensing hitches including two-piece pin mounts Kevin Stanton Giaier, Andrew Niedert, Elliott Pearson, Anton Rogness, Johannes Gießibl 2023-10-17 $11,685,000
11607919 Methods and apparatus for a dual reacting, single load sensing element coupled to a hitch receiver Andrew Niedert, Kevin Stanton Giaier, Elliott Pearson, Anton Rogness, Johannes Gießibl 2023-03-21 $12,184,000
11491832 Towing systems and methods using magnetic field sensing Julius Beck, Florian Burghardt, Johannes Gießibl, Chris Liston 2022-11-08 $9,223,000
11221262 Towing systems and methods using magnetic field sensing Julius Beck, Florian Burghardt, Johannes Gießibl, Chris Liston 2022-01-11 $5,664,000
11135882 Towing systems and methods using magnetic field sensing Julius Beck, Florian Burghardt, Johannes Gießibl, Chris Liston 2021-10-05 $5,054,000
11097580 Methods and apparatus for a modular double pin load sensor coupled to a hitch receiver Andrew Niedert, Christopher Eric Allard, Peter Simeon Lazarevski, Kevin Stanton Giaier, Johannes Gießibl 2021-08-24 $14,787,000
11084342 Towing systems and methods using magnetic field sensing Julius Beck, Florian Burghardt, Johannes Gießibl, Chris Liston 2021-08-10 $14,187,000
11014417 Towing systems and methods using magnetic field sensing Julius Beck, Florian Burghardt, Johannes Gießibl 2021-05-25 $15,029,000
10899183 Systems and methods for magnetoelastic hitch receiver force detection Andrew Niedert, Rinku Patel, Anton Rogness, Elliott Pearson, Johannes Gießibl 2021-01-26 $11,486,000
10670479 Towing systems and methods using magnetic field sensing Julius Beck, Florian Burghardt, Johannes Gießibl 2020-06-02 $10,692,000
6654682 Transit planning system Roland Kane, David C. Krueger, Gareth R. Strope, Richard A. Stanek 2003-11-25 $241,000