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Robert Smith — 42 Patents

ASAltria Client Services: 30 patents #47 of 418Top 15%
PUPhilip Morris Usa: 1 patents #601 of 607Top 100%
Glen Allen, VA: #9 of 521 inventorsTop 2%
Virginia: #391 of 34,511 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
Robert Smith has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at Altria Client Services. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in November 2025. Robert Smith ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Robert Smith in Glen Allen, VA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12482953 Alignment and constraining devices for maintaining positional optimizations between antenna array components Dane J. Phillips, Michael Hollenbeck 2025-11-25
12193473 Product portion enrobing machines and methods Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke 2025-01-14
12161147 Product portion enrobing process and apparatus, and resulting products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke 2024-12-10 $25,794,000
12151260 Polymer encased smokeless tobacco products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Christopher Joseph DiNovi +2 more 2024-11-26 $72,604,000
12075818 Banded cigarette wrapper with opened-area bands Timothy S. Sherwood, Robert Kikkert, Ali A. Rostami, Georgios D. Karles 2024-09-03 $39,126,000
11889857 Product portion enrobing machines and methods Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke 2024-02-06 $38,426,000
11812776 Methods and machines for pouching smokeless tobacco and tobacco substitute products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Christopher Joseph DiNovi +2 more 2023-11-14 $59,677,000
11731162 Polymer encased smokeless tobacco products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Christopher Joseph DiNovi +2 more 2023-08-22 $41,708,000
11707082 Process of preparing printing solution and making patterned cigarette wrapper Marc W. Rose, Timothy S. Sherwood 2023-07-25 $49,327,000
11602161 Cigarette wrapper with novel pattern Marc W. Rose, Timothy S. Sherwood 2023-03-14 $64,181,000
11382350 Product portion enrobing process and apparatus, and resulting products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke 2022-07-12 $48,250,000
11375740 Methods and machines for pouching smokeless tobacco and tobacco substitute products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Christopher Joseph DiNovi +2 more 2022-07-05 $61,919,000
11284643 Methods and machines for pouching smokeless tobacco and tobacco substitute products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Christopher Joseph DiNovi +2 more 2022-03-29 $90,848,000
11198151 Polymer encased smokeless tobacco products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Christopher Joseph DiNovi +2 more 2021-12-14 $93,153,000
11103002 Product portion enrobing machines and methods Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke 2021-08-31 $115,217,000
11064729 Cigarette wrapper with novel pattern Marc W. Rose, Timothy S. Sherwood 2021-07-20 $58,398,000
10905154 Alternating patterns in cigarette wrapper, smoking article and method Timothy S. Sherwood, Marc W. Rose, Tyrone W. Murray 2021-02-02 $64,764,000
10813382 Methods and machines for pouching smokeless tobacco and tobacco substitute products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Christopher Joseph DiNovi +2 more 2020-10-27 $112,614,000
10765142 Methods and machines for pouching smokeless tobacco and tobacco substitute products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Christopher Joseph DiNovi +2 more 2020-09-08 $61,249,000
10681935 Banded cigarette wrapper with opened-area bands Timothy S. Sherwood, Robert Kikkert, Ali A. Rostami, Georgios D. Karles 2020-06-16 $170,690,000
10588339 Product portion enrobing machines and methods Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke 2020-03-17 $41,381,000
10531685 Product portion enrobing process and apparatus, and resulting products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke 2020-01-14 $263,043,000
10384816 Polymer encased smokeless tobacco products Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Christopher Joseph DiNovi +2 more 2019-08-20 $109,257,000
10375988 Cigarette wrapper with novel pattern Marc W. Rose, Timothy S. Sherwood 2019-08-13 $54,495,000
10306916 Product portion enrobing machines and methods Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke 2019-06-04 $140,177,000