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Gregory Covert Smith — 10 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
Durham, NC: #545 of 4,103 inventorsTop 15%
North Carolina: #5,314 of 45,564 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Gregory Covert Smith has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in April 2014. Gregory Covert Smith ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Gregory Covert Smith in Durham, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2008.peak 32003: 1 patents20032007: 1 patents20072008: 3 patents20082009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents20102012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8692673 Locating a device in a given state Christian L. Hunt, Vincent M. Padua, Robin Radez, William A. Reichert, III, Oriana Jeannette Williams 2014-04-08 $7,562,000
8305218 System and program product for automatic RFID attenuation and recovery Christian L. Hunt, Vincent M. Padua, Robin Radez, William A. Reichert, III, Oriana Jeannette Williams 2012-11-06 $8,916,000
7834764 Prefetching manifest data in an RFID system Christian L. Hunt 2010-11-16 $4,384,000
7739147 System and method for pallet identification based on threshold of case-level tags James Peter Branigan, Christian L. Hunt, John Kenneth Senegal 2010-06-15 $4,416,000
7538676 System and method for swapping tag reads based on statistical analysis of known environment James Peter Branigan, Angela Susan Graveline, Lisa M. Pring 2009-05-26 $7,976,000
7463153 Locating a device in a given state Christian L. Hunt, Vincent M. Padua, Robin Radez, William A. Reichert, III, Oriana Jeannette Williams 2008-12-09 $6,024,000
7439864 Method for automatic RFID attenuation and recovery Christian L. Hunt, Vincent M. Padua, Robin Radez, William A. Reichert, III, Oriana Jeannette Williams 2008-10-21 $6,641,000
7432797 Prefetching manifest data in an RFID system Christian L. Hunt 2008-10-07 $9,641,000
7289027 Network management using suppressible RFID tags Christian L. Hunt, Vincent M. Padua, Robin Radez, William A. Reichert, III, Oriana Jeannette Williams 2007-10-30 $4,304,000
6563836 Algorithm for dynamic prioritization in a queuing environment Christopher Louis Capps, Jay Douglas Stouffer 2003-05-13 $15,835,000