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Richard B. Smith — 26 Patents

DUDuracell: 5 patents #24 of 239Top 15%
HP: 3 patents #5,824 of 7,018Top 85%
STStanadyne: 2 patents #22 of 85Top 30%
USUs Synthetic: 2 patents #87 of 154Top 60%
HIHoward Hughes Medical Institute: 2 patents #38 of 128Top 30%
EAE.I. Du Pont De Nemours And: 1 patents #7,296 of 12,129Top 65%
BPBritish Steel Plc.: 1 patents #9 of 44Top 25%
MTMaxwell Technologies: 1 patents #57 of 97Top 60%
BEBellsouth: 1 patents #127 of 138Top 95%
BSBritish Steel: 1 patents #17 of 94Top 20%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Richard B. Smith has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Duracell. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in April 2023. Richard B. Smith ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Richard B. Smith in Melksham, VA, GB.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11627937 Positioning apparatus and gripping apparatus Mladen Barbic 2023-04-18
11471125 Positioning apparatus and gripping apparatus Mladen Barbic 2022-10-18
9075024 Methods for determining wear volume of a tested polycrystalline diamond element Jason K. Wiggins, Bryan H. Jansen 2015-07-07
8760668 Methods for determining wear volume of a tested polycrystalline diamond element Jason K. Wiggins, Bryan H. Jansen 2014-06-24
7307830 Capacitor with battery form factor housing Rolland Gallay, Daniel Schlunke 2007-12-11 $2,476,000
7261342 Automatically locking window latch 2007-08-28
D451555 Set of components for a drop-in nameplate 2001-12-04
D403299 Battery case David Suske, Cely O'Brien 1998-12-29
D402955 Battery case David Suske, Cely O'Brien 1998-12-22
5715454 Version control of documents by independent line change packaging 1998-02-03 $44,957,000
5679017 Universal battery charger 1997-10-21
5572326 Arrangements for measuring the height of a layer of floating liquid John Lightfoot, Joseph Spencer 1996-11-05
5428254 Universal energy pack Jay R. Lucas, Alexander Forman, George Kringel 1995-06-27 $26,957,000
5322291 Golf practice apparatus Ronald T. Smith 1994-06-21
5242546 High grade polyethylene paper Robert J. Evans, Homan B. Kinsley, Jr., Gurvinder P. S. Kochar, Chi-Chang Lee, Karl Martin +2 more 1993-09-07 $8,770,000
5212021 Energy pack and individual battery cell cartridge Bruce McDonald 1993-05-18 $22,808,000
5188114 Method and apparatus for elimination of mirroring in signal processing system Karl Thiele, Tomohiro Hasegawa 1993-02-23 $15,112,000
4926872 Ultrasonic transducer system and method for the operation thereof George Brock-Fisher, Paul R. Kranz, James R. Mniece, Karl Thiele, Bernard Joseph Savord 1990-05-22 $10,367,000
4921532 Ironmaking by means of a smelting shaft furnace Martin Corbett 1990-05-01
4913221 Liquid metal processing Steven J. Henderson 1990-04-03
4880479 Cold drawn free-machining resulfurized and rephosphorized steel bars having controlled mechanical properties and controlled machinability Stephen P. Birman, Richard L. Thompson 1989-11-14
4799251 ESS equipment testing device Michael Tolson 1989-01-17 $54,816,000
4788483 Parallel redundant actuator systems 1988-11-29
4741786 Cold drawn free-machining steel bar including bismuth Stephen P. Birman, Richard L. Thompson 1988-05-03
4475726 Mechanism for positioning workpieces 1984-10-09