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John R. Smith — 89 Patents

IBM: 83 patents #796 of 70,183Top 2%
CUColumbia University: 1 patents #37 of 176Top 25%
SLSinoeast Concept Limited: 1 patents #9 of 25Top 40%
CUColumbia University: 1 patents #1,151 of 2,492Top 50%
New York, NY: #71 of 20,192 inventorsTop 1%
New York: #713 of 115,490 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #18,310 of 4,157,543Top 1%
89 Patents All Time
John R. Smith has been granted 89 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in December 2025. John R. Smith ranks #18,310 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.44%). Patent records list John R. Smith in New York, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2016.peak 102000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents2002: 4 patents2003: 3 patents20032004: 3 patents2005: 7 patents2006: 4 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 4 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 5 patents2011: 6 patents2012: 3 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 3 patents2015: 6 patents20152016: 10 patents2017: 5 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 5 patents2020: 4 patents2021: 3 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 89 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12507006 System and method for private audio channels Kyle P. Hanley 2025-12-23
11830241 Auto-curation and personalization of sports highlights Michele Merler, Dhiraj Joshi, Quoc-Bao Nguyen, Stephen C. Hammer, John Joseph Kent +1 more 2023-11-28 $7,743,000
11282249 System and method for perspective preserving stitching and summarizing views Chung-Ching Lin, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Aleksandr Y. Aravkin 2022-03-22 $5,808,000
11172225 Aerial videos compression Chung-Ching Lin, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti 2021-11-09 $5,376,000
11170270 Automatic generation of content using multimedia Michele Merler, Mauro Martino, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo 2021-11-09 $5,376,000
10943697 Determining information based on an analysis of images and video Lilla Boroczky, Francisco P. Curbera, Maria Eleftheriou 2021-03-09 $4,710,000
10685172 Generating a textual description of an image using domain-independent anomaly analysis Jonathan H. Connell, II, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti 2020-06-16 $3,682,000
10643093 Automated bounding box generation for objects in an image Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Matthew Aron Greenberg 2020-05-05 $3,712,000
10595101 Auto-curation and personalization of sports highlights Michele Merler, Dhiraj Joshi, Quoc-Bao Nguyen, Stephen C. Hammer, John Joseph Kent +1 more 2020-03-17 $1,423,000
10553005 System and method for perspective preserving stitching and summarizing views Chung-Ching Lin, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Aleksandr Y. Aravkin 2020-02-04 $2,135,000
10360623 Visually generated consumer product presentation Bernadette R. Duponchel, Myron D. Flickner, Victoria B. Platt 2019-07-23 $2,519,000
10303801 Visual meme tracking for social media analysis Matthew L. Hill, John R. Kender, Apostol Natsev, Lexing Xie 2019-05-28 $2,255,000
10306267 System, method, and recording medium for compressing aerial videos Chung-Ching Lin, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti 2019-05-28 $2,255,000
10282677 Individual and user group attributes discovery and comparison from social media visual content Michele Merler, Jae-Eun Park, Rosario A. Uceda-Sosa 2019-05-07 $2,760,000
10204291 System, method, and recording medium for detecting events for interest from mobile Chung-Ching Lin, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti 2019-02-12 $5,536,000
10102454 Image classification utilizing semantic relationships in a classification hierarchy Michele Merler, Rosario A. Uceda-Sosa, Hui Wu 2018-10-16 $2,674,000
10049459 Static image segmentation Noel C. Codella, Gang Hua 2018-08-14 $4,051,000
10032113 Social media event detection and content-based retrieval Noel C. Codella, Apostol Natsev 2018-07-24 $2,645,000
9928448 Image classification utilizing semantic relationships in a classification hierarchy Michele Merler, Rosario A. Uceda-Sosa, Hui Wu 2018-03-27 $2,459,000
9760945 Visually generated consumer product presentation Bernadette R. Duponchel, Myron D. Flickner, Victoria B. Platt 2017-09-12 $1,776,000
9710760 Multi-facet classification scheme for cataloging of information artifacts Matthew L. Hill, John R. Kender, Apostol Natsev, Quoc-Bao Nguyen, Jelena Tesic +2 more 2017-07-18 $2,009,000
9684852 Systems and methods for inferring gender by fusion of multimodal content Liangliang Cao, Michele Merler 2017-06-20 $2,315,000
9569874 System and method for perspective preserving stitching and summarizing views Chung-Ching Lin, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Aleksandr Y. Aravkin 2017-02-14 $1,939,000
9552442 Visual meme tracking for social media analysis Matthew L. Hill, John R. Kender, Apostol Natsev, Lexing Xie 2017-01-24 $6,164,000
9477973 Visually generated consumer product presentation Bernadette R. Duponchel, Myron D. Flickner, Victoria B. Platt 2016-10-25 $7,053,000