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Michael J. Smith — 30 Patents

Caterpillar: 5 patents #1,328 of 8,398Top 20%
RORosemount: 2 patents #215 of 629Top 35%
FIFireking International: 2 patents #2 of 11Top 20%
CACarrier: 2 patents #900 of 2,507Top 40%
NBNxp B.V.: 1 patents #1,722 of 3,591Top 50%
WAWavephore: 1 patents #8 of 13Top 65%
AMD: 1 patents #8,089 of 9,280Top 90%
DLData Recording Instrument Company Limited: 1 patents #3 of 12Top 25%
DGDorel Juvenile Group: 1 patents #54 of 109Top 50%
Philips: 1 patents #3,761 of 7,731Top 50%
Forsyth, IL: #3 of 28 inventorsTop 15%
Illinois: #2,039 of 84,256 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Michael J. Smith has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Caterpillar. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in January 2022. Michael J. Smith ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Michael J. Smith in Forsyth, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2003.peak 31988: 1 patents19881989: 2 patents1991: 1 patents1993: 2 patents19931995: 1 patents1996: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 2 patents2001: 2 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 3 patents2004: 2 patents2005: 2 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents2017: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11219853 Negative air filtration system Kevin Mercer 2022-01-11
10823185 Motor interface assembly and a method of using the same Kevin Mercer, Sunny Ahmed 2020-11-03
10450795 Security gate Laura Kay Raffi 2019-10-22
9573681 Wing-drive mechanism with unidirectional drive 2017-02-21
8181907 Wing-drive mechanism and vehicle employing same 2012-05-22
7673579 Traffic flow indicator with traffic cone-mounted movable pointer 2010-03-09
7219278 Configurator arrangement and approach therefor Daniel Lee Avery, Joel Bailey, Randall Pendley 2007-05-15
7117274 Graphical user interface and approach therefor Daniel Lee Avery, Joel Bailey, Jerry H. Schumacher 2006-10-03 $1,394,000
7063252 Centralized electronic safe and accounting control system Jonathan H. Bosch, Richard Thurman, Mark THOMAS, Richard R. Cornell, Jr., Jane Mary Chernomordik 2006-06-20
6971966 Belt damper Robert C. Gibson, Kevin Knox, Marvin P. Schneider 2005-12-06 $47,319,000
6966828 Money tube and associated dispensing units Richard Thurman, Richard R. Cornell, Jr. 2005-11-22
6783097 Wing-drive mechanism and vehicle employing same 2004-08-31
6724306 Luggage locating system Ralph O. Parsley, Jr., Ralph O. Parsley, Sr. 2004-04-20
6658804 Self-bearing flexible curtain wall system Vladimir S. Leytes, Xiaocong Gu 2003-12-09
6568634 Wing-drive mechanism and vehicle employing same 2003-05-27
6565039 Wing-drive mechanism and vehicle employing same 2003-05-20
6418914 Constraint idler Robert C. Gibson, Kevin Knox, Marvin P. Schneider, Lloyd E. Thompson 2002-07-16 $15,011,000
6326806 FPGA-based communications access point and system for reconfiguration Hamish T. Fallside 2001-12-04 $115,413,000
6206324 Wing-drive mechanism, vehicle employing same, and method for controlling the wing-drive mechanism and vehicle employing same 2001-03-27
5771114 Optical interface with safety shutdown Anders Andersson 1998-06-23 $58,179,000
5727110 Electro-optic interface for field instrument George Charles Hausler 1998-03-10 $43,340,000
5685197 Backlash adjustment mechanism Steven R. Baker, Benny Ballheimer 1997-11-11 $19,599,000
5540112 Backlash adjustment mechanism Steven R. Baker, Benny Ballheimer 1996-07-30 $13,206,000
5457714 Software controlled adaptive delta modulator Melvyn Engel, Michael D. Bethel, Michael A. Sowell 1995-10-10 $3,365,000
5272937 Active inertia torque absorbing system Thomas A. Brosowske, Geoffrey Turk, Jose M. Salazar-Vior, Robert C. Heitzman, Nelson A. Jones +1 more 1993-12-28 $11,501,000