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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Richard Smith — 23 Patents

Cisco: 6 patents #2,380 of 13,007Top 20%
BPBhp Billiton Petroleum Pty: 4 patents #5 of 10Top 50%
HP: 4 patents #4,645 of 16,619Top 30%
W&W. R. Grace &: 2 patents #100 of 433Top 25%
RCRose Communications: 2 patents #4 of 13Top 35%
CTCooper Technologies: 2 patents #441 of 859Top 55%
SLSonardyne International Limited: 1 patents #2 of 6Top 35%
Middleburg Heights, OH: #4 of 97 inventorsTop 5%
Ohio: #2,717 of 73,341 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Richard Smith has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in May 2023. Richard Smith ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Richard Smith in Middleburg Heights, OH, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2011.peak 31980: 1 patents19801981: 1 patents1984: 1 patents19841992: 2 patents2001: 2 patents20012003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042009: 1 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 3 patents20122014: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11647019 Systems and methods for providing security orchestration for trusted traffic segmentation on untrusted devices Alberto Rodriguez Natal, Mikhail Davidov, Lorand Jakab, Fabio R. Maino 2023-05-09 $76,981,000
11233743 Extending enterprise trusted policy framework to cloud native applications Alberto Rodriguez Natal, Fabio R. Maino, Bradford Pielech, Mikhail Davidov, Lorand Jakab 2022-01-25 $43,374,000
9143524 Propagation of malicious code through an information technology network Jonathan Griffin, Andrew Norman 2015-09-22 $5,490,000
8720066 Hose Joel Aron Witz, David Cox, Gerard Anthony Hall 2014-05-13
8713797 Hose Joel Aron Witz, David Cox, Gerard Anthony Hall 2014-05-06
8232473 Tank assembly for 1 phase padmount transformer that prevents pad openings Wayne W. Lien 2012-07-31
8161558 Network management and administration 2012-04-17 $16,050,000
8139442 Robust underwater communication system Christopher Pearce 2012-03-20
8079619 Hose end fitting Joel Aron Witz, David Cox, Gerard Anthony Hall, Matthew Vernon Ridolfi, Anthony James Wort 2011-12-20
8051482 Nullification of malicious code by data file transformation Keith Harrison 2011-11-01 $11,005,000
8046592 Method and apparatus for securing the privacy of sensitive information in a data-handling system Stephen James Crane 2011-10-25 $5,635,000
D623582 Car saver enclosure 2010-09-14
7735524 Hose Raymond Nicholas Burke, Eric Joseph Davis, Gerard Anthony Hall, Matthew Vernon Ridolfi, Simon Peter Alexander Thorp +3 more 2010-06-15
7559285 Space efficient transformer stacking James D. Barlow 2009-07-14
6769124 Persistent storage of information objects Charles B. Schoening, Stephen I. Schleimer 2004-07-27 $114,853,000
6505228 Dynamic determination of execution sequence Charles B. Schoening, Stephen I. Schleimer 2003-01-07 $328,816,000
6226788 Extensible network management system Charles B. Schoening, Stephen I. Schleimer 2001-05-01 $531,873,000
6205465 Component extensible parallel execution of multiple threads assembled from program components specified with partial inter-component sequence information Charles B. Schoening, Stephen I. Schleimer 2001-03-20 $453,524,000
5109545 Proximal cable-less communication system with intentional signal path Thomas H. Schiller, Terry L. Fry 1992-04-28
5101505 Method and apparatus for selective sideband signal correction in a proximal cable-less communication system Thomas H. Schiller, Terry L. Fry 1992-03-31
4454891 Air gap drain module for use in a reverse osmosis system Richard C. Dreibelbis 1984-06-19 $8,215,000
D259394 Distributor clamp 1981-06-02
4215658 Electric water pump Ralph R. Bellino 1980-08-05 $3,790,000