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Cecil D. Smith — 14 Patents

CICiena: 13 patents #72 of 1,406Top 6%
Broomfield, CO: #99 of 1,198 inventorsTop 9%
Colorado: #3,168 of 40,980 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Cecil D. Smith has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ciena. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in November 2015. Cecil D. Smith ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Cecil D. Smith in Broomfield, CO, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9191117 High-speed optical transponder systems Stephen B. Alexander, Michael Y. Frankel, Steve W. Chaddick, Roy C. Litz 2015-11-17 $10,013,000
8306424 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Roy C. Litz 2012-11-06 $1,934,000
7903981 Software-based electro-optic modulator bias control systems and methods Steve S. Cho 2011-03-08 $21,423,000
7809270 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Roy C. Litz 2010-10-05 $2,948,000
7369780 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Roy C. Litz 2008-05-06 $10,949,000
6647079 Surface acoustic wave-based clock and data recovery circuit William J. Ulrich, Mark C. Lucas, Bradley M. Kanack 2003-11-11 $48,022,000
6618176 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Roy C. Litz 2003-09-09 $30,540,000
6344915 System and method for shutting off an optical energy source in a communication system having optical amplifiers Stephen B. Alexander, Roy C. Litz, Robert Corwin, John Lynn Shanton, III, Donald T. Newman 2002-02-05 $81,833,000
6233077 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Roy C. Litz 2001-05-15 $244,822,000
5784184 WDM Optical communication systems with remodulators and remodulating channel selectors Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Roy C. Litz 1998-07-21 $126,710,000
5726784 WDM optical communication system with remodulators and diverse optical transmitters Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, David R. Huber 1998-03-10 $73,968,000
5715076 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Roy C. Litz 1998-02-03 $89,036,000
5504609 WDM optical communication system with remodulators Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, David R. Huber 1996-04-02
4475676 Easy carry-easy access golf marker and tee caddy 1984-10-09