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Kenneth D. Smeltzer — 6 Patents

IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
CSCrossroads Systems: 2 patents #23 of 44Top 55%
Delray Beach, FL: #116 of 629 inventorsTop 20%
Florida: #9,271 of 67,251 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Kenneth D. Smeltzer has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in November 2005. Kenneth D. Smeltzer ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Kenneth D. Smeltzer in Delray Beach, FL, US.

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Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6965934 Encapsulation protocol for linking storage area networks over a packet-based network Robert Anderson Reynolds, III, John B. Haechten 2005-11-15 $440,000
6848007 System for mapping addresses of SCSI devices between plurality of SANs that can dynamically map SCSI device addresses across a SAN extender Robert Anderson Reynolds, III, John B. Haechten 2005-01-25 $448,000
5600766 Method and apparatus for storing and displaying a power-on graphical image David Deckys, Bharat Khatri, George Mathew, Stanley L. Merkin, Gary A. Vaiskauckas 1997-02-04 $17,712,000
5530872 Method and system for directing device driver to service multiple sequential interrupt requests generated by I/O device connected thereto Alan F. Neel, II, Timothy J. Louie, Frank J. Schroeder, James P. Ward, Robert Lin +1 more 1996-06-25 $5,688,000
5214695 Apparatus and method for loading a system reference diskette image from a system partition in a personal computer system Lisa R. Arnold, Richard Bealkowski, John W. Blackledge, Jr., Doyle S. Cronk, Richard A. Dayan +7 more 1993-05-25 $9,080,000
5128995 Apparatus and method for loading a system reference diskette image from a system partition in a personal computer system Lisa R. Arnold, Richard Bealkowski, John W. Blackledge, Jr., Doyle S. Cronk, Richard A. Dayan +7 more 1992-07-07 $9,389,000