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James B. Smith — 40 Patents

Apple: 15 patents #2,200 of 18,612Top 15%
Xerox: 14 patents #992 of 8,622Top 15%
IBM: 3 patents #26,335 of 70,183Top 40%
The Boeing: 1 patents #8,630 of 15,756Top 55%
Cisco: 1 patents #7,948 of 13,007Top 65%
PNPneumafil: 1 patents #8 of 16Top 50%
General Motors: 1 patents #9,441 of 18,328Top 55%
Cupertino, CA: #363 of 6,989 inventorsTop 6%
California: #11,486 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
James B. Smith has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in May 2025. James B. Smith ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list James B. Smith in Cupertino, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12301743 Housing features of an electronic device Matthew D. Hill, Derek C. Krass, Benjamin Shane Bustle, Lucy E. Browning, Michael B. Wittenberg +2 more 2025-05-13
12166911 Handheld electronic device Owen D. Hale, Dale T. Morgan, Andrew U. Leopold, Yifan Zhao, Nicholas Merz +9 more 2024-12-10 $286,613,000
12055973 Dual board-to-board connector battery management circuit module utilizing a switch-back service loop Depeng Wang, Andrew U. Leopold, Gregory N. Stevens, Jonathan C. Wilson 2024-08-06 $268,361,000
11792309 Housing features of an electronic device Matthew D. Hill, Derek C. Krass, Benjamin Shane Bustle, Lucy E. Browning, Michael B. Wittenberg +2 more 2023-10-17 $170,456,000
D961594 Battery for an electronic device Matthew D. Hill, Dale T. Morgan, Ian A. Spraggs 2022-08-23
11073872 Distributed auxiliary hub for a portable electronic device Andrew U. Leopold, Owen D. Hale, Daniel W. Jarvis, David A. Pakula, Ian A. Spraggs +1 more 2021-07-27 $395,238,000
11070655 Housing features of an electronic device Matthew D. Hill, Derek C. Krass, Benjamin Shane Bustle, Lucy E. Browning, Michael B. Wittenberg +2 more 2021-07-20 $287,877,000
11006524 Circuit board interposer Scott A. Myers, Dale T. Morgan, Shayan Malek 2021-05-11 $296,431,000
10696078 Space-efficient flex cable with improved signal integrity for a portable electronic device Jason Sloey, Simon C. Helmore 2020-06-30 $126,650,000
10547717 Housing features of an electronic device Matthew D. Hill, Derek C. Krass, Benjamin Shane Bustle, Lucy E. Browning, Michael B. Wittenberg +2 more 2020-01-28 $144,266,000
D850529 Multifunction office machine William T Clark, III, Keith L. Willis, Andrew T. Martin, Stephen F Skrainar 2019-06-04
10225964 Component shielding structures with magnetic shielding Daniel W. Jarvis, David A. Pakula, Gregory N. Stephens, Nicholas G. L. Merz, Shayan Malek +1 more 2019-03-05 $88,700,000
10218827 Housing features of an electronic device Matthew D. Hill, Derek C. Krass, Benjamin Shane Bustle, Lucy E. Browning, Michael B. Wittenberg +2 more 2019-02-26 $103,017,000
D827706 Multifunction office machine William T Clark, III, Andrew T. Martin, Stephen F Skrainar 2018-09-04
D813269 Printer screen with icon Keith L. Willis 2018-03-20
D795953 Multifunction office machine William T Clark, III, Andrew T. Martin, Stephen F Skrainar 2017-08-29
9733845 Shared virtualized local storage Sesidhar Baddela 2017-08-15 $22,866,000
9658641 Cosmetically self-centering removable module tray Gregory N. Stephens 2017-05-23 $78,322,000
9591110 Housing features of an electronic device Matthew D. Hill, Derek C. Krass, Benjamin Shane Bustle, Lucy E. Browning, Michael B. Wittenberg +2 more 2017-03-07 $87,942,000
D779553 Office machine display screen with graphical user interface including a color function icon Keith L. Willis, Shane Jewitt 2017-02-21
D765772 Office printer William T Clark, III, Andrew T. Martin, Stephen F Skrainar, Keith L. Willis 2016-09-06
9334055 Method and apparatus for attaching a trim to a cover of a bin assembly Lee Alan Beldock, Asim Chadha 2016-05-10 $21,263,000
9318802 Flexible shock absorbing connections within a mobile computing device Gregory N. Stephens, Boon W. Shiu, Shayan Malek, Marwan Rammah, Scott A. Myers +6 more 2016-04-19 $45,541,000
D687436 Desktop scanner Mark S. Penke, Donald A. Brown, Stephen F Skrainar 2013-08-06
D641399 Desktop printer Mark S. Penke, Donald A. Brown 2011-07-12