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Smiths Industries
— 36 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#17,090
of
105,732
Top 20%
51
inventors
36
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1997
Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 1980.
peak 11
1980: 11 patents
1980
1981: 7 patents
1982: 4 patents
1982
1983: 1 patents
1986: 1 patents
1986
1989: 1 patents
1991: 1 patents
1991
1992: 1 patents
1993: 2 patents
1993
1994: 1 patents
1995: 2 patents
1995
1996: 2 patents
1997: 2 patents
1997
Top Inventors at Smiths Industries
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
51
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Gerald F. Pulice
3
2
Derek A. Rush
2
2
Douglas V. Luke
2
2
Edward S. Eccles
2
2
Geoffrey S. M. Hedrick
2
2
Harry Gibson
2
2
John S. Wyler
2
2
Peter D. Baker
2
2
Richard N. Thomas
2
#10
Peter F. Maycock
1
#10
Anthony J. Thornton
1
#10
Brian Shepherd
1
#10
Brian Paul Williams
1
#10
Colin A. Morley
1
#10
David E. Cross
1
#10
David A. Larrabee
1
#10
Daniel R. Sharp
1
#10
David A. Sinclair
1
#10
Daniel L. Sugarbaker
1
#10
David J. Vallins
1
#10
Douglas Clayton Smythe
1
#10
Farid Ahmad
1
#10
Frederick E. Hankins
1
#10
Geza Bujtas
1
#10
Harry L. Gubbins
1
#10
James F. Meredith
1
#10
Jayanti Patel
1
#10
Jerry L. Page
1
#10
John H. Gassler
1
#10
John Pitkin
1
#10
Joseph Paul Taylor
1
#10
Joe K. Winner
1
#10
Kenneth A. Goreham
1
#10
Kevin C. Kelleher
1
#10
Kenneth J. Morris
1
#10
Lev Sorkin
1
#10
Martin Hewitt
1
#10
Michael P. Barnsley
1
#10
Michael Yates
1
#10
Neil R. Jacob
1
#10
Neil R. McCanney
1
#10
Ralph C. Taylor, Jr.
1
#10
Ronald H. Cooper
1
#10
Robert A. Hupp
1
#10
Ronald V. Myers
1
#10
Stephen P. Taylor
1
#10
Terence C. Merriman
1
#10
Donald Proefrock
1
#10
Simon M. St. Leger Searle
1
#10
Christopher B. Wakeford
1
1
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