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Ian Smith — 11 Patents

COConopco: 3 patents #360 of 1,903Top 20%
GLGlaxo Group Limited: 1 patents #753 of 1,368Top 60%
LBLever Brothers: 1 patents #333 of 819Top 45%
MLMeridica Limited: 1 patents #5 of 12Top 45%
WJWm. Wrigley Jr.: 1 patents #234 of 442Top 55%
Amsterdam, NL: #148 of 2,851 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Ian Smith has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Conopco. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in May 2025. Ian Smith ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Ian Smith in Amsterdam, NL.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1987.peak 11987: 1 patents19871989: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002010: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12311311 Process and apparatus for the reversible adsorption of carbon dioxide Max BEAUMONT, Piotr Thomasz Kasper, Alexander GUNKEL 2025-05-27
11992802 Process and apparatus for the reversible adsorbtion of carbon dioxide Max BEAUMONT, Piotr Thomasz Kasper, Alexander GUNKEL 2024-05-28
11369914 Process and apparatus for the removal of metabolic carbon dioxide from a confined space Piotr Thomasz Kasper, Maximus Llewelyn Beaumont 2022-06-28
D901303 Product container Nicolas Jaouen, Rory Johnston, Peter Booth, Alex Roper, Mark Watson 2020-11-10
8986770 Process for fabricating leaf tea products Michael Alan Cooper 2015-03-24 $6,392,000
8709522 Fabricated leaf tea products Michael Alan Cooper 2014-04-29 $21,542,000
8273395 Process for manufacturing tea products Steven Peter Colliver, David George Sharp 2012-09-25 $5,365,000
7665633 Apparatus and method of dispensing small quantities of particles Donald Bruce Atherton MacMichael 2010-02-23
6033768 Hard material coating with yttrium and method for its deposition Wolf-Dieter Muenz, Lee A. Donohue, John Stuart Brooks 2000-03-07
4863073 Valve for aerosol container Peter Colin Weston Burt, David Andrew Wyatt 1989-09-05
4707288 Process for preparing detergent bars Geoffrey Irlam 1987-11-17 $57,000