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Alan Smith — 8 Patents

DEDigital Equipment: 3 patents #412 of 2,100Top 20%
DIDirectv: 2 patents #313 of 679Top 50%
QUQuantum: 1 patents #325 of 703Top 50%
Lincoln, MA: #92 of 335 inventorsTop 30%
Massachusetts: #16,020 of 88,656 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Alan Smith has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Digital Equipment. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in December 2022. Alan Smith ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Alan Smith in Lincoln, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1993.peak 21991: 1 patents19911993: 2 patents19931996: 1 patents19962021: 2 patents20212022: 2 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11528389 Method and system for synchronizing playback of independent audio and video streams through a network Dennis M. Hardwick 2022-12-13
11238886 Generating video information representative of audio clips Stephen Matthew Hallgren 2022-02-01
11044386 Method and system for synchronizing playback of independent audio and video streams through a network Dennis M. Hardwick 2021-06-22
10924584 Processing streaming content requests Steven Michael-Hafner Crothers 2021-02-16
5494473 Electrical access for electrical lapping guides David Dupuis, David Kindler 1996-02-27 $5,322,000
5193039 Permanet magnet easy-axis biased magnetoresistive head Michael Mallary 1993-03-09 $6,157,000
5175938 Electrical guide for tight tolerance machining 1993-01-05 $11,028,000
5023991 Electrical guide for tight tolerance machining 1991-06-18 $31,049,000