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Paul A. Smith — 17 Patents

IBM: 9 patents #11,946 of 70,183Top 20%
GGGiesecke & Devrient Gmbh: 2 patents #179 of 507Top 40%
ILIllumina: 2 patents #453 of 799Top 60%
ICIllinois Superconductor Corporation: 1 patents #18 of 40Top 45%
TSThe Sherwin-Williams: 1 patents #225 of 458Top 50%
Cary, NC: #374 of 3,681 inventorsTop 15%
North Carolina: #2,803 of 45,564 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Paul A. Smith has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in March 2024. Paul A. Smith ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Paul A. Smith in Cary, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2018.peak 31999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents2004: 1 patents20042008: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112014: 1 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11934884 Coordinated application processing David R. Kimmel, Eunho Noh 2024-03-19 $65,646,000
11599394 Coordinated application processing David R. Kimmel, Eunho Noh 2023-03-07 $168,830,000
11144437 Pre-populating continuous delivery test cases Corville O. Allen, Monica A. Murray, Mario A. Maldari 2021-10-12 $3,967,000
10212116 Intelligently condensing transcript thread history into a single common reduced instance Corville O. Allen, Mario A. Maldari, Monica Senior 2019-02-19 $3,019,000
10157374 Method of reconditioning an electronic processing device Gary Lau 2018-12-18
10157373 Method of reconditioning an electronic processing device Gary Lau 2018-12-18
9924297 Timed and variable duration for multiple device synching Mario A. Maldari, Corville O. Allen 2018-03-20 $2,525,000
9763280 Mobile device assignment within wireless sound system based on device specifications Corville O. Allen, Mario A. Maldari, Monica A. Murray 2017-09-12 $1,776,000
9367537 Analyzing messages and/or documents to provide suggestions to modify messages and/or documents to be more suitable for intended recipients Saurabh Dua, Mario A. Maldari, Jarett Stein, Sahdevsinh P. Zala 2016-06-14 $6,457,000
9367538 Analyzing messages and/or documents to provide suggestions to modify messages and/or documents to be more suitable for intended recipients Saurabh Dua, Mario A. Maldari, Jarett Stein, Sahdevsinh P. Zala 2016-06-14 $6,457,000
8782534 Independent viewing of web conference content by participants Erik S. Bryant, Saurabh Dua, Jaymin Patel, Vladimir Soroka 2014-07-15 $5,287,000
8055520 System and program product for selecting a lower cost supplier based on total cost and forecasted demand Gerald W. Baumann, David H. Goldstein, Richard A. Leavitt, John M. Salvadore, David B. Schroeder +1 more 2011-11-08 $3,097,000
7389248 System, method, and program product for selecting a lower cost supplier based on total cost and forecasted demand Gerald W. Baumann, David H. Goldstein, Richard A. Leavitt, John M. Salvadore, David B. Schroeder +1 more 2008-06-17 $10,894,000
6776548 Coating applicator and method of using the same Thomas L. Gardner, Jr., Richard Hackett, Christopher R. Prebel, John J. Ernst, Jr. 2004-08-17 $18,427,000
6151534 Method for processing sheet material such as bank notes Walter Herrmann, Bernd Wunderer, Dieter Stein 2000-11-21
6074081 Apparatus and method for processing sheet articles such as bank notes Walter Herrmann, Bernd Wunderer, Dieter Stein 2000-06-13
5871818 Thick film coating process Timothy William Button, Geoffrey Dolman, Carl Meggs 1999-02-16 $752,000