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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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John E. Rode — 102 Patents

TPTemper Axle Products: 42 patents #1 of 6Top 20%
TETemper: 17 patents #1 of 2Top 50%
ACAmsted Rail Company: 1 patents #59 of 128Top 50%
Fonda, NY: #1 of 11 inventorsTop 10%
New York: #531 of 115,490 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #13,957 of 4,157,543Top 1%
102 Patents All Time
John E. Rode has been granted 102 US patents while listed as an inventor at Temper Axle Products. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in November 2025. John E. Rode ranks #13,957 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.34%). Patent records list John E. Rode in Fonda, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2017.peak 111994: 1 patents19941995: 2 patents1996: 4 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents1999: 1 patents2001: 3 patents20012002: 4 patents2003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents2007: 3 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 3 patents2010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 9 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 7 patents2016: 1 patents2017: 11 patents20172018: 9 patents2019: 5 patents2020: 8 patents20202021: 3 patents2022: 2 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 3 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 102 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12466040 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing Sean E. Strait 2025-11-11
12292083 Adjustable spacer with hardened ends 2025-05-06
12036643 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing Sean E. Strait 2024-07-16
11964371 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing and aligning a lock nut Sean E. Strait 2024-04-23
11951770 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing and aligning a lock nut Sean E. Strait, Matthew TOWNES 2024-04-09
11754119 Apparatus for preloading a bearing 2023-09-12
11305408 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing and aligning a lock nut Sean E. Strait 2022-04-19
11247319 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing Sean E. Strait 2022-02-15
11193533 Apparatus for preloading a bearing 2021-12-07
11009068 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing and aligning a lock nut 2021-05-18
10982706 Lock nut with adjustable retaining ring 2021-04-20
10837489 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing and aligning a lock nut Matthew TOWNES 2020-11-17
10821582 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing and installing a tamper indicating member Sean E. Strait 2020-11-03
10808754 Adjustable spacer with hardened ends 2020-10-20
10718368 Lock nut with offset retaining ring 2020-07-21
10690174 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing and aligning a lock nut Sean E. Strait, Ronald George Wilson 2020-06-23
10648505 Adjustable spacer with hardened ends 2020-05-12
10590986 Apparatus for preloading a bearing and method of use 2020-03-17
10532451 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing Sean E. Strait 2020-01-14
10493605 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing and aligning a lock nut Sean E. Strait 2019-12-03
10436247 Apparatus for preloading a bearing 2019-10-08
10352360 Adjustable spacer with hardened ends 2019-07-16
10208790 Adjustable spacer with hardened ends 2019-02-19
10184519 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing Sean E. Strait 2019-01-22
10151343 Systems and methods for preloading a bearing and aligning a lock nut 2018-12-11