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John Stephen Smith — 102 Patents

ATAlien Technology: 43 patents #2 of 54Top 4%
Apple: 35 patents #857 of 18,612Top 5%
RLRuizhang Technology Limited: 10 patents #1 of 18Top 6%
University of California: 8 patents #840 of 18,278Top 5%
San Jose, CA: #249 of 32,062 inventorsTop 1%
California: #2,189 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #13,957 of 4,157,543Top 1%
102 Patents All Time
John Stephen Smith has been granted 102 US patents while listed as an inventor at Alien Technology. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in November 2025. John Stephen Smith ranks #13,957 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.34%). Patent records list John Stephen Smith in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 102 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12463563 Electrostatic clutch Jeffrey Lipton, Timothy Amish, Jeffrey Auletta, Chad C. Kessens 2025-11-04
12379791 Power efficient stylus for an electronic device 2025-08-05
12210693 Mechanically sensitive power efficient stylus for an electronic device Daniel J. Bechstein, Duc T. DUONG, Michael Vosgueritchian, Sinan Filiz, Vipin Ayanoor-Vitikkate +1 more 2025-01-28
12210696 Electrostatic discharge protection of a power efficient stylus for an electronic device Daniel J. Bechstein, Blake R. Marshall, Vipin Ayanoor-Vitikkate, Mohammadali Khorrami 2025-01-28
12153764 Stylus with receive architecture for position determination Cody A. Tapscott 2024-11-26 $261,880,000
11997777 Electrostatic discharge robust design for input device Daniel J. Bechstein, Mohammadali Khorrami, Vipin Ayanoor-Vitikkate, Blake R. Marshall, Zhibin Wang +2 more 2024-05-28 $205,493,000
11836297 Keyboard with capacitive key position, key movement, or gesture input sensors David S. Graff, Nicolas M. Golzio, Shahrzad Pouryayevali, Wayne Carl Westerman, Christophe Blondin 2023-12-05 $213,405,000
11531438 Differential drive and sense for touch sensor panel Amit Nayyar, Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Sagar Rajiv Vaze, Marduke Yousefpor 2022-12-20 $242,970,000
11526240 Reducing sensitivity to leakage variation for passive stylus Daniel J. Bechstein, Ullas Pazhayaveetil, Jason Hu, Robert U. Liu, Rexford J. Garland +1 more 2022-12-13 $195,063,000
11467678 Power efficient stylus for an electronic device 2022-10-11
11460933 Shield electrode for input device Daniel J. Bechstein, Siddharth Shekar, Teera Songatikamas, Elvis M. Kibiti, Jared A. Brauner +6 more 2022-10-04 $219,253,000
11449175 System and method for multi-frequency projection scan for input device detection Srinath Hosur, Aryan Hazeghi 2022-09-20 $272,149,000
11153676 Elastomeric pressure transduction based user interface Storrs T. Hoen 2021-10-19 $254,245,000
10944276 Portable power supply device 2021-03-09
10739899 Force determination employing sheet sensor Sinan Filiz, Martin P. Grunthaner, Charley T. Ogata, Christian M. Sauer, Shin John Choi +2 more 2020-08-11 $147,060,000
10659866 Elastomeric pressure transduction based user interface Storrs T. Hoen 2020-05-19 $120,639,000
10591368 Force sensor with strain relief James E. Pedder 2020-03-17 $72,009,000
10496211 Force sensing using measurements of air pressure and air flow 2019-12-03 $109,496,000
10466829 Temperature compensating sensor having a compliant layer separating independent force sensing substrates and sense circuitry to obtain a relative measure between the force sensing substrates Sinan Filiz, James E. Pedder, Charley T. Ogata, Dhaval Chandrakant Patel, Shin John Choi +3 more 2019-11-05 $118,994,000
10423265 Temperature compensating force sensor Sinan Filiz, James E. Pedder, Charley T. Ogata, Dhaval Chandrakant Patel, Shin John Choi +3 more 2019-09-24 $183,092,000
10379657 Force determination employing sheet sensor and capacitive array Sinan Filiz, Martin P. Grunthaner, Charley T. Ogata, Christian M. Sauer, Shin John Choi +2 more 2019-08-13 $108,006,000
10353506 Dual resistive strain and pressure sensor for force touch Michael Vosgueritchian, Sinan Filiz, James E. Pedder, Saahil Mehra, Xiaofan Niu 2019-07-16 $90,112,000
10318089 Common mode control for a resistive force sensor Manu Agarwal, Christian M. Sauer 2019-06-11 $92,962,000
10309846 Magnetic field cancellation for strain sensors 2019-06-04 $74,703,000
10296123 Reducing noise in a force signal in an electronic device Manu Agarwal 2019-05-21 $75,437,000