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 2024 Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1980. peak 2 1980: 2 patents 1980 1982: 1 patents 1983: 1 patents 1983 1984: 1 patents 1985: 1 patents 1985 1988: 1 patents 1989: 1 patents 1989 1991: 1 patents 1995: 1 patents 1995 1997: 1 patents 2014: 1 patents 2014 2024: 1 patents 2024
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Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx 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
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1991-06-25
4833688
Two-phase flow quality measuring device
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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
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1985-09-10
$2,705,000
4473888
Saw monolithic convolver using dispersive transducers
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1984-09-25
4403340
OCR Matrix extractor
Richard Kumpf
1983-09-06
4337455
Apparatus for processing video signals received from an optical scanner
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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