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Eric G. Smith — 36 Patents

Apple: 18 patents #1,823 of 18,612Top 10%
WBWestinghouse Air Brake: 11 patents #30 of 220Top 15%
WGWabco Gmbh: 5 patents #41 of 358Top 15%
Palo Alto, CA: #597 of 9,675 inventorsTop 7%
California: #13,468 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Eric G. Smith has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in January 2024. Eric G. Smith ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Eric G. Smith in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11880111 Tunable lens systems with voltage selection circuitry Patrick R. Gill, Yu Horie 2024-01-23 $290,302,000
11703698 Adjustable lens systems Miikka M. Kangas, Qing Liu, Jeffrey G. Koller 2023-07-18 $362,289,000
11125826 Battery impedance measurement Qing Liu 2021-09-21 $348,543,000
10658859 Time-domain multiplexing of power and data Bryan R. Hinch, Tommee So 2020-05-19 $120,639,000
9774207 Time-domain multiplexing of power and data Bryan R. Hinch, Tommee So 2017-09-26 $86,247,000
9658634 Under voltage detection and performance throttling Brijesh Tripathi, Erik P. Machnicki, Jung Wook Cho, Khaled M. Alashmouny, Kiran B. Kattel +3 more 2017-05-23 $78,322,000
9590519 Power adapter with a step-down transformer and a voltage step-up circuit Louis Luh 2017-03-07 $87,942,000
9454196 Active peak power management of a high performance embedded microprocessor cluster Matthias Knoth, Rohit Kumar, Louis Luh 2016-09-27 $72,288,000
9086737 Dynamically controlled keyboard Gavin J. Reid 2015-07-21 $90,600,000
9048743 Controlling an adapter transformer voltage Louis Luh 2015-06-02 $78,914,000
9013113 Keyboard backlight driver IC Alejandro Lara Ascorra, Steven J. Sfarzo 2015-04-21 $85,669,000
8933643 Display backlight driver IC configuration Alejandro Lara Ascorra, Shimon Elkayam, Asif Hussain, Brad Lee Patton, Steven J. Sfarzo 2015-01-13
8836287 Time-domain multiplexing of power and data Bryan R. Hinch, Tommee So 2014-09-16 $52,432,000
8817493 Controlling an adapter transformer voltage Louis Luh, P. Jeffrey Ungar 2014-08-26 $72,159,000
8661268 Methods and apparatus for intelligently providing power to a device Benjamin Brooks 2014-02-25 $91,032,000
8610411 High-voltage regulated power supply P. Jeffrey Ungar, Heather R. Sullens 2013-12-17 $66,897,000
8547321 LED backlight driver synchronization and power reduction 2013-10-01 $90,690,000
8291241 Low power peer detection circuit Colin Whitby-Strevens, Eric W. Anderson 2012-10-16 $118,372,000
7772818 Method and apparatus for measuring an average output current of a switching regulator using current-sensing-circuitry 2010-08-10 $80,134,000
5738416 Railway braking apparatus to effect a change in a handbrake Wajih Kanjo, Thomas J. Demoise, Michael Girotti, Thomas McCabe, Charles B. Fessler +1 more 1998-04-14 $908,000
5701974 Railway hand brake apparatus with visual condition indicator Wajih Kanjo, Thomas J. Demoise, Michael Girotti, Thomas McCabe, Charles B. Fessler +1 more 1997-12-30 $1,388,000
5669674 Electro-pneumatic freight brake control system Albert A. McKay 1997-09-23 $2,175,000
5593214 Railway parking braking apparatus Wajih Kanjo, Thomas J. Demoise, Michael Girotti, Thomas McCabe, Charles B. Fessler +1 more 1997-01-14 $2,617,000
5586812 Railway braking apparatus Wajih Kanjo, Thomas J. Demoise, Michael Girotti, Thomas McCabe, Charles B. Fessler +1 more 1996-12-24 $960,000
5586813 Electro-pneumatic freight brake control system Albert A. McKay 1996-12-24 $960,000