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David Wheeler — 16 Patents

Tesla: 6 patents #122 of 838Top 15%
General Motors: 1 patents #9,441 of 18,328Top 55%
Sony: 1 patents #17,321 of 25,231Top 70%
Pleasanton, CA: #423 of 3,062 inventorsTop 15%
California: #37,952 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
David Wheeler has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Tesla. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in July 2020. David Wheeler ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list David Wheeler in Pleasanton, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10718592 Firearm sight system — 2020-07-21
10648757 Firearm muzzle device attachment facility — 2020-05-12
10358857 Vehicle front door power opening system Chris McCarthy, Jacob Warman, Austin L. Newman, John Hughes 2019-07-23
9797181 Vehicle front door power opening system Chris McCarthy, Jacob Warman, Austin L. Newman, John Hughes 2017-10-24
9103143 Door handle apparatus for vehicles Adam Scott Kilgore, Scott P Cromwell, Daryl Zalan, Robert E. Mooney, Peter Dore Rawlinson +1 more 2015-08-11 $259,675,000
9080352 Controller apparatus and sensors for a vehicle door handle Joris Aerts, Adam Scott Kilgore, Brenda Cucci, Ian Craven 2015-07-14 $90,078,000
8935053 Power release hood latch method and system Brenda Cucci, Adam Scott Kilgore, Dan Adams, Robert B. Mooney 2015-01-13 $64,309,000
8807807 Illumination apparatus for vehicles Brenda Cucci, Adam Scott Kilgore, Daryl Zalan 2014-08-19 $57,008,000
7945599 Method and apparatus for process design Kenneth R. Allen, John Prouty 2011-05-17
7756914 Method and apparatus for process design Kenneth R. Allen, John Prouty 2010-07-13
7536748 Gooseneck hinge assembly for vehicles David T. Renke, David E. Thomas, Mark A. Seiler, Robert Flatley 2009-05-26 $1,720,000
7254594 Method and apparatus for process design Kenneth R. Allen, John Prouty 2007-08-07
6768984 Method and apparatus for process design Kenneth R. Allen, John Prouty 2004-07-27
6058102 Method and apparatus for performing service level analysis of communications network performance metrics R. Scott Drysdale, James D. Ennis, Jr., John E. Hasselkus, Thomas R. Nisbet, Robert Troutman +1 more 2000-05-02 $20,609,000
D393079 Sill block — 1998-03-31
5206929 Offline editing system Ted E. Langford 1993-04-27 $159,000

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