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David C. Smith — 7 Patents

Apple: 5 patents #5,490 of 18,612Top 30%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
Saratoga, CA: #1,041 of 2,933 inventorsTop 40%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
David C. Smith has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in July 2017. David C. Smith ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list David C. Smith in Saratoga, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9697242 Buffering inserts into a column store database Walter D. Alvey, Matthew A. Huras, Sam B. Lightstone, Chandrasekaran Mohan, Steven R. Pearson +3 more 2017-07-04
7260571 Disambiguation of term occurrences Einat Amitay, Rani Nelken, Niblack Wayne, Aya Soffer 2007-08-21 $7,896,000
5835919 Computer-human interface system which manipulates parts between a desktop and a document Mark Ludwig Stern, David Curbow, Jennifer Chaffee, Jeffrey Kreegar, Michael Thompson +3 more 1998-11-10 $10,489,000
5812862 Computer-human interface system for compound documents Mark Ludwig Stern, David Curbow, Jennifer Chaffee, Jeffrey Kreegar, Michael Thompson +3 more 1998-09-22 $7,620,000
5678013 Multi-type subroutines for graphical rewrite rules G. Allen Cypher 1997-10-14 $20,176,000
5669005 System for automatically embedding or incorporating contents added to a document David Curbow, Kurt Piersol, Mark Ludwig Stern 1997-09-16 $10,128,000
5566295 Extensible simulation system and graphical programming method Allen Cypher, James C. Spohrer 1996-10-15 $7,908,000