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Benjamin D. Sumers — 8 Patents

Tesla: 5 patents #150 of 838Top 20%
QBQbotix: 3 patents #1 of 11Top 10%
Los Altos Hills, CA: #295 of 812 inventorsTop 40%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Benjamin D. Sumers has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Tesla. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in May 2018. Benjamin D. Sumers ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Benjamin D. Sumers in Los Altos Hills, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2015.peak 42014: 1 patents20142015: 4 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9982722 Torque transfer in laterally engaging drive couplers exhibiting axial misalignment with driven couplers Daniel I. Fukuba, Jeremy Dittmer, Merritt J. Jenkins, Kevin C. Chu, Vayardo L. Ruiz 2018-05-29
9689957 Solar tracking system using periodic scan patterns with a shielding tube Jos Goble, Salomon Trujillo, Christopher O. Perkins 2017-06-27
9428198 Monorail vehicle apparatus with gravity-augmented contact load John S. Camp, Ryan Feeley 2016-08-30 $20,477,000
9221471 Monorail vehicle apparatus with gravity-augmented contact load John S. Camp, Ryan Feeley 2015-12-29 $36,171,000
9222523 Dual-mode torque transfer in laterally engaging drive couplers exhibiting axial misalignment with driven couplers Daniel I. Fukuba, Jeremy Dittmer, Merritt J. Jenkins, Kevin C. Chu, Vayardo L. Ruiz 2015-12-29 $36,171,000
8950336 Monorail vehicle apparatus with gravity-controlled roll attitude and loading John S. Camp, Ryan Feeley, Kevin T. Mori, Daniel I. Fukuba, Wasiq Bokhari 2015-02-10
8939085 Monorail vehicle apparatus with gravity-augmented contact load John S. Camp, Ryan Feeley 2015-01-27
8878113 Solar tracking system using periodic scan patterns with a shielding tube Jos Goble, Salomon Trujillo, Christopher O. Perkins 2014-11-04