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Steven William Smith — 14 Patents

GE: 14 patents #2,231 of 36,430Top 7%
Roanoke, VA: #35 of 603 inventorsTop 6%
Virginia: #2,056 of 34,511 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Steven William Smith has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in April 2017. Steven William Smith ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Steven William Smith in Roanoke, VA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2014.peak 82014: 8 patents20142015: 4 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9628341 Incorporating FDT/DTM technology into a native control system monitoring application Ashok Dattatraya Acharya, George Matzko 2017-04-18
9519394 Method and apparatus for creating instances for pre-defined areas of a topology Michael Franke, Jack R. Kirby, Jr. 2016-12-13
9130853 Systems and methods for identifying foundation fieldbus linking devices William Robert Pettigrew 2015-09-08 $16,151,000
8994545 Systems and methods for alert device removal John Michael Karaffa, Johnny Stephen Downor, William Robert Pettigrew 2015-03-31 $12,199,000
8952804 Systems and methods to overlay additional information onto foundation fieldbus alerts John Michael Karaffa, Johnny Stephen Downor 2015-02-10 $30,971,000
8937555 Systems and methods to overlay behaviors on foundation fieldbus alerts John Michael Karaffa, Johnny Stephen Downor 2015-01-20 $28,539,000
8885665 Systems and methods for foundation fieldbus alerts John Michael Karaffa, Johnny Stephen Downor 2014-11-11 $19,590,000
8868732 Systems and methods for facilitating communication with foundation fieldbus linking devices William Robert Pettigrew 2014-10-21 $12,219,000
8856302 Systems and methods for foundation fieldbus alerts John Michael Karaffa, Johnny Stephen Downor 2014-10-07 $19,524,000
8769072 Systems and methods for identifying foundation fieldbus linking devices William Robert Pettigrew 2014-07-01 $15,771,000
8762528 Systems and methods for write protecting foundation fieldbus linking devices William Robert Pettigrew 2014-06-24 $15,682,000
8730054 Systems and methods to customize alert presentation John Michael Karaffa, Johnny Stephen Downor 2014-05-20 $11,321,000
8713166 Systems and methods for facilitating communication with foundation fieldbus linking devices William Robert Pettigrew 2014-04-29 $19,153,000
8667078 Systems and methods of extracting, storing, and serving device definition file information John Michael Karaffa, Johnny Stephen Downor, David Richard Socky 2014-03-04 $16,351,000