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Michael J. Smith — 10 Patents in 2016

Apple: 4 patents #463 of 3,100Top 15%
Google: 4 patents #411 of 5,263Top 8%
GE: 2 patents #540 of 4,215Top 15%
Palo Alto, CA: #50 of 2,001 inventorsTop 3%
California: #1,049 of 57,791 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (2016): #6,489 of 481,213Top 2%
10 Patents 2016

Issued Patents 2016

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9507739 Configurable memory circuit system and method Suresh Rajan, Keith R. Schakel, David T. Wang, Frederick Daniel Weber 2016-11-29 $11,001,000
9489821 Device and method for monitoring the presence of an item Martin T. King, Claes-Fredrik Mannby 2016-11-08 $11,507,000
9433942 Biological sample storage device Stevan Paul Tortorella, Gerard B. O'Beirne 2016-09-06
9400688 Resource restriction systems and methods Jussi-Pekka Mantere, Alexander Tony Maluta, John William Scalo, Eugene Ray Tyacke, Bruce Gaya +2 more 2016-07-26 $110,891,000
9336394 Securely recovering a computing device Dallas B. De Atley, Joshua P. de Cesare, Matthew Reda, Shantonu Sen, John Andrew Wright 2016-05-10 $45,935,000
9329112 Container storing freeze-dried biological sample Stevan Paul Tortorella 2016-05-03
9323784 Image search using text-based elements within the contents of images Martin T. King, Claes-Fredrik Mannby 2016-04-26 $15,164,000
9286783 Device and method for monitoring the presence of items and issuing an alert if an item is not detected Eric Teller, Martin T. King, Claes-Fredrik Mannby 2016-03-15 $17,367,000
9256551 Embedded encryption/secure memory management unit for peripheral interface controller Timothy R. Paaske, David S. Warren, Diarmuid P. Ross, Weihua Mao 2016-02-09 $133,514,000
9237016 System and method for wiping encrypted data on a device having file-level content protection Dallas B. De Atley, Gordon J. Freedman, Thomas Brogan Duffy, Jr., Tahoma M. Toelkes, Paul William Chinn +1 more 2016-01-12 $83,071,000