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Nathan John Smith — 7 Patents

GE: 5 patents #6,849 of 36,430Top 20%
HMHired Hand Manufacturing: 1 patents #3 of 6Top 50%
STSensata Technologies: 1 patents #133 of 358Top 40%
Addison, AL: #1 of 1 inventorsTop 100%
Alabama: #1,064 of 10,951 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Nathan John Smith has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in April 2015. Nathan John Smith ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Nathan John Smith in Addison, AL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2014.peak 21991: 1 patents19912004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents20062012: 1 patents20122014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8997550 Method and system for correcting for temperature variations in ultrasonic testing systems Jeffrey Lee Dubler 2015-04-07 $14,555,000
8857261 Sensing device and method of attaching the same Matthew Harvey Krohn, Paul Aloysius Meyer, Fred Timothy Matthews 2014-10-14 $12,543,000
8680745 Device for measuring material thickness Fred Timothy Matthews, Paul Aloysius Meyer, Matthew Harvey Krohn, Adeodato Maria Vigano 2014-03-25 $22,410,000
8264129 Device and system for measuring material thickness Matthew Harvey Krohn, Paul Aloysius Meyer, James Norman Barshinger, Ying-Yi Fan, Fred Timothy Matthews 2012-09-11 $22,482,000
7112749 Sensor mounting apparatus for minimizing parasitic stress David J. DiPaola, Peter H. Frackelton, David E. Hyland, Timothy M. McBride, Chetak Reshamwala +2 more 2006-09-26
6678575 Method and system for generating numerically controlled tool paths on a solid model Michael Evans Graham, John Dennis Jackson 2004-01-13 $51,424,000
5051671 Proximity sensor and control Grant W. Crider 1991-09-24