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Kurt A. Smith — 14 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
SUSundstrand: 2 patents #242 of 697Top 35%
Harpers Ferry, IA: #1 of 3 inventorsTop 35%
Iowa: #987 of 15,303 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Kurt A. Smith has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in June 2016. Kurt A. Smith ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Kurt A. Smith in Harpers Ferry, IA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2003.peak 31990: 1 patents19901992: 1 patents1993: 1 patents19931995: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 1 patents2003: 3 patents20032010: 1 patents2016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D758903 Measuring tool 2016-06-14
7645423 Optical micro plugs for multichannel and multilayer pharmaceutical device Govindarajan Natarajan, David H. Gabriels, Mark W. Kapfhammer, Richard A. Shelleman 2010-01-12 $8,801,000
6659002 Screening apparatus with trailing squeegee and method of screening Daniel Langdon, Keith C. O'Neil, Randall J. Werner, Ralph R. Comulada, Jr. 2003-12-09 $6,520,000
6595136 Method for displacing an article during screening Ralph R. Comulada, Jr., Robert Albert Meyen, Keith C. O'Neil, Brenda Peterson 2003-07-22 $10,485,000
6543347 Apparatus for displacing an article during screening Ralph R. Comulada, Jr., Robert Albert Meyen, Keith C. O'Neil, Brenda Peterson, Thomas Ramundo 2003-04-08 $14,785,000
6054749 Thin film device repaired using enhanced repair process Gerald K. Bartley, Peter A. Franklin, Carmine J. Mele, Arthur G. Merryman, John R. Pennacchia +3 more 2000-04-25 $26,364,000
5972723 Enhanced thin film wiring net repair process Gerald K. Bartley, Peter A. Franklin, Carmine J. Mele, Arthur G. Merryman, John R. Pennacchia +3 more 1999-10-26 $20,157,000
5937269 Graphics assisted manufacturing process for thin-film devices Roy Yu, Gerald K. Bartley, Peter A. Franklin, Carmine J. Mele, Arthur G. Merryman +3 more 1999-08-10 $20,467,000
5785800 Apparatus for forming cavity structures using thermally decomposable surface layer Govindarajan Natarajan, Niranjan M. Patel 1998-07-28 $10,920,000
5676788 Method for forming cavity structures using thermally decomposable surface layer Govindarajan Natarajan, Niranjan M. Patel 1997-10-14 $31,107,000
5397607 Input/output (I/O) thin film repair process Ronald R. Shields, Ronald John MCDONALD 1995-03-14 $18,714,000
5271879 Method of forming a hybrid composite sandwich structure Hossein Saatchi 1993-12-21 $2,432,000
5122316 Enhanced foaming of thermoplastics for in-situ fabrication of advanced articles Hossein Saatchi, Patrick James Murray, Robert E. Coleman 1992-06-16 $2,204,000
4923772 High energy laser mask and method of making same Steven J. Kirch, John R. Lankard, Sr., John J. Ritsko, James L. Speidell, James T. Yeh 1990-05-08