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Robert Gordon Smith — 13 Patents

3M: 8 patents #1,969 of 11,543Top 20%
SISeiko Instruments: 2 patents #605 of 1,437Top 45%
PAParker-Hannifin: 1 patents #1,449 of 1,664Top 90%
Vadnais Heights, MN: #39 of 216 inventorsTop 20%
Minnesota: #5,817 of 52,454 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Robert Gordon Smith has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3M. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in December 2014. Robert Gordon Smith ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Robert Gordon Smith in Vadnais Heights, MN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8917478 Bearing with grease pockets, bearing device with plural bearings, and recording device equipped with bearing device Kenji Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Kashiwada, Virat Sornsiri 2014-12-23
8630062 Bearing apparatus having concentric inner and outer roller bearings and information recording/reproducing apparatus Sumio Shimizu 2014-01-14
8453676 Fugitive emission reducing valve arrangement Mathew William Davis, Andrew Spencer Nicholson 2013-06-04 $60,579,000
8345386 Bearing device and information recording and reproducing apparatus Virat Sornsiri 2013-01-01
8221003 Bearing unit and pivot device Virat Sornsiri 2012-07-17
6798954 Packaged optical micro-mechanical device Barry S. Carpenter, Kathy L. Hagen 2004-09-28 $17,558,000
6711318 Optical switch based on rotating vertical micro-mirror Mike E. Hamerly, Silva K. Theiss, Billy L. Weaver 2004-03-23 $24,289,000
6708491 Direct acting vertical thermal actuator Billy L. Weaver, Douglas P. Goetz, Kathy L. Hagen, Mike E. Hamerly, Silva K. Theiss 2004-03-23 $24,289,000
6647164 Gimbaled micro-mirror positionable by thermal actuators Billy L. Weaver, Mike E. Hamerly 2003-11-11 $15,797,000
6531947 Direct acting vertical thermal actuator with controlled bending Billy L. Weaver, Douglas P. Goetz, Kathy L. Hagen, Mike E. Hamerly, Silva K. Theiss 2003-03-11 $17,999,000
6483419 Combination horizontal and vertical thermal actuator Billy L. Weaver, Douglas P. Goetz, Kathy L. Hagen, Mike E. Hamerly, Silva K. Theiss 2002-11-19 $15,700,000
6483957 MEMS-based polarization mode dispersion compensator Mike E. Hamerly, Terry L. Smith, Silva K. Theiss, Billy L. Weaver 2002-11-19 $15,700,000
6438954 Multi-directional thermal actuator Douglas P. Goetz, Mike E. Hamerly, Daniel B. Pendergrass, Jr., Silva K. Theiss, Billy L. Weaver 2002-08-27 $17,412,000