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Sterling R. Smith — 30 Patents

IBM: 26 patents #4,008 of 70,183Top 6%
Apex, NC: #63 of 1,394 inventorsTop 5%
North Carolina: #1,289 of 45,564 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #122,865 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–30 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9411878 NLP duration and duration range comparison methodology using similarity weighting David Contreras, Robert C. Sizemore 2016-08-09
9311294 Enhanced answers in DeepQA system according to user preferences Corville O. Allen, Scott R. Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods 2016-04-12
9244911 Enhanced answers in DeepQA system according to user preferences Corville O. Allen, Scott R. Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods 2016-01-26
7908305 Intelligent business object document system Randy Dee Baxter, Vincent Edmund Price, Christopher H. L. Wicher 2011-03-15
5784610 Check image distribution and processing system and method John Ray Copeland, III, Leslie Marie Doby, Larry P. Hobbs, Vil Patrick Johnikin, Julie Ann Pridmore +3 more 1998-07-21