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Darin Cate — 11 Patents

PFPerformance Friction: 9 patents #2 of 22Top 10%
TBTse Brakes: 2 patents #8 of 17Top 50%
York, SC: #7 of 70 inventorsTop 10%
South Carolina: #1,348 of 15,501 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Darin Cate has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Performance Friction. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in March 2023. Darin Cate ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Darin Cate in York, SC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2015 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2021.peak 32015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents20192021: 3 patents20212023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11608866 Spring brake actuator Kok Gaither-Ho 2023-03-21
11209057 Torsion brake retractor, caliper and method Paul Rankin, James Borner 2021-12-28
11209058 Spring brake actuator Kok Gaither-Ho 2021-12-28
11199232 Torsion brake retractor, caliper and method Paul Rankin, James Borner 2021-12-14
10508699 Floating rotor disc brake with marcel expander ring attachment Paul Rankin 2019-12-17
10001187 Brake caliper with brake pad timing and retraction controller Donald L. Burgoon, Peter N. Babbage, Nihal Murthy 2018-06-19
9889833 Integrated parking brake for disk brake Donald L. Burgoon, Mark Wagner 2018-02-13
9759279 Floating brake drum and hat assembly Donald L. Burgoon, Richard Johns, Konan Perez, Mark Wagner 2017-09-12
9512892 Brake caliper with brake pad timing and retraction controller Donald L. Burgoon, Peter N. Babbage, Nihal Murthy 2016-12-06
9145120 Sliding caliper parking brake having positive brake pad retraction Donald L. Burgoon 2015-09-29
9132809 Integrated parking brake for disc brake Donald L. Burgoon, Mark Wagner 2015-09-15