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Clay Chip Smith — 3 Patents

IBM: 3 patents #26,335 of 70,183Top 40%
Austin, TX: #7,594 of 18,064 inventorsTop 45%
Texas: #41,402 of 125,132 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,328,092 of 4,157,543Top 35%
3 Patents All Time
Clay Chip Smith has been granted 3 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in March 2020. Clay Chip Smith ranks #1,328,092 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 31.9%). Patent records list Clay Chip Smith in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1999.peak 11999: 1 patents19992002: 1 patents20022020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–3 of 3 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10599804 Pin cloning and subway creation on automatically generated design physical hierarchy Ali S. El-Zein, Robert J. Shadowen, Alvan W. Ng, Wolfgang Roesner 2020-03-24 $1,716,000
6338025 Data processing system and method to estimate power in mixed dynamic/static CMOS designs Michael Alexander Bowen, Byron L. Krauter, Steven Schmidt, Amy May Tuvell 2002-01-08 $17,918,000
5991521 Method and system of checking for open circuit connections within an integrated-circuit design represented by a hierarchical data structure Carol Ivash Gabele, Stephen T. Quay 1999-11-23 $40,306,000