David C. Smith — 20 Patents at Canon

David C. Smith has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Canon. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in September 2025. David C. Smith ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list David C. Smith in La Porte, TX, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12423017	System and method for performing and verifying data erasure	Phyllis Tsu, Michael Mercado, Jianning Yue, Samuel Hinkhouse	2025-09-23
8938118	Method of neighbor embedding for OCR enhancement	Rajiv Jain	2015-01-20
8705118	Threshold-based load balancing printing system	—	2014-04-22	$44,000
8638470	Efficient banded hybrid rendering	Thomas Benjamin Sanjay Thomas	2014-01-28	$59,000
7975632	Seed planter	Joseph Kevin Gogerty, Daniel Goldman, Kent Hoeppner, James L. Hunter, Jason J. Kelsick +5 more	2011-07-12
7938075	Automated seed detection and planting synchronization apparatus, method and system	Matthew K. Glendenning, Daniel Goldman, David E. Johnson, Jason J. Kelsick	2011-05-10
7755629	Method of rendering graphic objects	—	2010-07-13	$148,000
7583397	Method for generating a display list	—	2009-09-01	$477,000
7477265	System and method for optimising halftoning printer performance	Giles Puckett	2009-01-13	$633,000
7454337	Method of modeling single data class from multi-class data	Daniel J. Richman	2008-11-18
7286142	System and method for optimising halftoning printer performance	Giles Puckett	2007-10-23	$434,000
6891536	Method of determining active priorities	—	2005-05-10	$184,000
6212989	High pressure, high temperature window assembly and method of making the same	Richard A. Beyer, Gregory Burke, John J. O'Reilly, Henry Kerwien, Mark Todaro	2001-04-10
4962556	Lightweight, collapsible bridge module, and system with deployment and retrieval trailer	Richard W. Helmke, Mark P. Levine	1990-10-16
4815003	Structured design method for high density standard cell and macrocell layout of VLSI chips	Rathindra N. Putatunda, Stephen A. McNeary	1989-03-21	$4,603,000
4811237	Structured design method for generating a mesh power bus structure in high density layout of VLSI chips	Rathindra N. Putatunda, Stephen A. McNeary	1989-03-07	$7,105,000
4686629	Logic cell placement method in computer-aided-customization of universal arrays and resulting integrated circuit	Richard Noto	1987-08-11
4636965	Routing method in computer-aided-customization of universal arrays and resulting integrated circuit	Richard Noto	1987-01-13
4613941	Routing method in computer aided customization of a two level automated universal array	Richard Noto	1986-09-23
4500963	Automatic layout program for hybrid microcircuits (HYPAR)	Richard Noto	1985-02-19

David C. Smith — 20 Patents

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