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William R. Smith — 13 Patents

CACaere: 3 patents #6 of 25Top 25%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
CECombustion Engineering: 1 patents #304 of 732Top 45%
HAHughes Aircraft: 1 patents #1,260 of 2,963Top 45%
TFThe Scott Fetzer: 1 patents #99 of 173Top 60%
GE: 1 patents #19,940 of 36,430Top 55%
Northrop Grumman: 1 patents #1,512 of 1,695Top 90%
UAUS Army: 1 patents #2,854 of 6,974Top 45%
AAAluminum Company Of America: 1 patents #495 of 1,017Top 50%
Mountain View, CA: #1,706 of 11,022 inventorsTop 20%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
William R. Smith has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Caere. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in July 2024. William R. Smith ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list William R. Smith in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1980.peak 21980: 2 patents19801982: 1 patents1983: 1 patents19831984: 1 patents1985: 1 patents19851988: 1 patents1989: 1 patents19891991: 1 patents1995: 1 patents19951997: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12038951 Map item cluster control Douglas M. Dyer, Verner Keith Devlin 2024-07-16 $96,030,000
8813140 Content retrieval for digital media recorder devices Oliver M. Deakin, Neil R. Hardman, Lucas W. Partridge 2014-08-19 $3,895,000
5652863 Graphical method of media partitioning on a hard disk Miguel Fernando Asensio, Pedro C. Rodriguez, Vickie Elaine Szarek, Duane Stephen Wood 1997-07-29 $23,816,000
5452224 Method of computing multi-conductor parasitic capacitances for VLSI circuits Richard A. Brodie, Michael W. Beaven 1995-09-19
5026003 Lighter-than-air aircraft 1991-06-25
4833688 Two-phase flow quality measuring device 1989-05-23 $1,842,000
4792462 Method of applying insulating material to windings in electrical machinery Marvin W. Sheets, Paul W. Greenlee 1988-12-20 $14,537,000
4539725 Apparatus for cleaning furnace walls 1985-09-10 $2,705,000
4473888 Saw monolithic convolver using dispersive transducers 1984-09-25
4403340 OCR Matrix extractor Richard Kumpf 1983-09-06
4337455 Apparatus for processing video signals received from an optical scanner 1982-06-29
4240748 Hand-held optical character recognition wand with visual aligner Serge Blanc 1980-12-23
4200951 Machine for cleaning surfaces Jack L. Burgoon 1980-05-06 $2,990,000