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Douglas C. Smith — 22 Patents

ATAT&T: 10 patents #1,789 of 18,772Top 10%
American Telephone And Telegraph: 3 patents #16 of 699Top 3%
Honeywell: 3 patents #4,150 of 16,504Top 30%
HEHercules: 2 patents #317 of 725Top 45%
HAHughes Aircraft: 1 patents #1,260 of 2,963Top 45%
DEDelco Electronics: 1 patents #370 of 908Top 45%
Verizon: 1 patents #3,934 of 6,238Top 65%
BLBell Telephone Laboratories: 1 patents #567 of 1,445Top 40%
Rumson, NJ: #9 of 138 inventorsTop 7%
New Jersey: #3,574 of 69,400 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Douglas C. Smith has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at AT&T. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in January 2015. Douglas C. Smith ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Douglas C. Smith in Rumson, NJ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1988.peak 21984: 1 patents19841985: 1 patents1988: 2 patents19881989: 1 patents1990: 1 patents19901992: 1 patents1993: 2 patents19931994: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 2 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 2 patents20042010: 1 patents2015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8934480 Enriching traffic data in a telephone network Raymond A. Gillis, Robert E. Ritter, Timothy A. Raughley, Venkatasathya Pasupulati, Carol B. Snow +2 more 2015-01-13 $79,349,000
7701161 Motor balanced active user interface assembly Casey Hanlon, James I. Kern, David Anthony Cowling 2010-04-20 $8,407,000
6814539 High energy particle arrestor for air turbine starters Gary A. Farnsworth, Glenn H. Lane 2004-11-09 $22,384,000
6732676 Integrated animal crate and grooming table 2004-05-11
6556868 Methods for improving learning or memory by vagus nerve stimulation Dean Kei Naritoku, Robert A. Jensen, Ronald A. Browning, Kevin B. Clark, Reese S. Terry, Jr. 2003-04-29
6533541 High energy particle arrestor for air turbine starters Gary A. Farnsworth, Glenn H. Lane 2003-03-18 $21,068,000
6339725 Methods of modulating aspects of brain neural plasticity by vagus nerve stimulation Dean Kei Naritoku, Robert A. Jensen, Ronald A. Browning, Kevin B. Clark, Reese S. Terry, Jr. 2002-01-15
6228217 Strength of paper made from pulp containing surface active, carboxyl compounds Jay A. Dickerson, Harry J. Goldy, Ronald R. Staib 2001-05-08 $7,808,000
6104956 Methods of treating traumatic brain injury by vagus nerve stimulation Dean Kei Naritoku, Robert A. Jensen, Ronald A. Browning, Kevin B. Clark, Reese S. Terry, Jr. 2000-08-15
5717558 Electrostatic discharge protection for an electrical device Dale E. Lynn, Mark S. Paradiso 1998-02-10 $19,738,000
D390185 Thermal liner for interior of van Jane Smith 1998-02-03
5646813 Method and apparatus for reducing ESD during thermal shock testing Min-Chung Jon, Joseph Charles Veshinfsky 1997-07-08 $9,263,000
5338406 Dry strength additive for paper 1994-08-16 $4,619,000
5185498 Circuit assembly encapsulated with polybutadiene urethane Henry M. Sanftleben, Ralph D. Hermansen, Gary R. Shelton, Petrina L. Schnabel, Dennis T. Baird 1993-02-09
5184115 Touch-screen arrangement Edward Black 1993-02-02
5119075 Scheme for determining position of surface contact of cathode ray tube screen 1992-06-02
4978907 Apparatus and method for expanding the frequency range over which electrical signal amplitudes can be accurately measured 1990-12-18
4879507 Noise measurement probe 1989-11-07
4751607 Communication line transient protection 1988-06-14
4736415 Resistive line feed circuit Bruce W. McNeill 1988-04-05
4554412 Resistive line circuit 1985-11-19
4475191 Distributed time division multiplexing bus Dennis Bryan James, Bryan S. Moffitt 1984-10-02