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Benjamin Thomas Smith — 14 Patents

Google: 11 patents #2,318 of 22,993Top 15%
Palo Alto, CA: #1,725 of 9,675 inventorsTop 20%
California: #43,920 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Benjamin Thomas Smith has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in November 2019. Benjamin Thomas Smith ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Benjamin Thomas Smith in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10472146 Key-releasable securing device John William Abrahams 2019-11-12
9822559 Security device John William Abrahams 2017-11-21
D782278 Security device John William Abrahams 2017-03-28
9392104 Limiting user interaction with a computing device based on proximity of a user Nishit Shah, Kan Liu, Caesar Sengupta, Eric Sachs, Mayank Upadhyay +2 more 2016-07-12 $17,855,000
8452766 Detecting query-specific duplicate documents Benedict A. Gomes 2013-05-28 $34,969,000
8214359 Detecting query-specific duplicate documents Benedict A. Gomes 2012-07-03 $46,641,000
8209325 Search engine cache control Anurag Acharya 2012-06-26 $34,879,000
7840557 Search engine cache control Anurag Acharya 2010-11-23 $106,768,000
7779002 Detecting query-specific duplicate documents Benedict A. Gomes 2010-08-17 $69,188,000
7386616 System and method for providing load balanced processing Monika H. Henzinger, Deborah Anne Wallach, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Luiz Andre Barroso 2008-06-10 $369,978,000
7136854 Methods and apparatus for providing search results in response to an ambiguous search query Sergey Brin, Sanjay Ghemawat, John A. Bauer 2006-11-14 $414,996,000
6865575 Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query Sergey Brin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Christopher Manning 2005-03-08 $209,075,000
6615209 Detecting query-specific duplicate documents Benedict A. Gomes 2003-09-02
6529903 Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query Sergey Brin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Christopher Manning 2003-03-04