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Todd A. Smith — 31 Patents

IBM: 15 patents #7,470 of 70,183Top 15%
BWBrown Stove Works: 7 patents #1 of 3Top 35%
TTTorque-Traction Technologies: 3 patents #17 of 116Top 15%
EAElbit Systems Of America: 2 patents #18 of 60Top 30%
WCWhelen Engineering Company: 1 patents #34 of 52Top 70%
Broadcom: 1 patents #5,859 of 9,346Top 65%
DGDana Automotive Systems Group: 1 patents #125 of 269Top 50%
Deep River, CT: #3 of 47 inventorsTop 7%
Connecticut: #1,066 of 34,797 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Todd A. Smith has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in July 2025. Todd A. Smith ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Todd A. Smith in Deep River, CT, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12372218 Vehicle lighting system using light channels Sean Brown, Gavin Shepherdson 2025-07-29
12272515 Microchannel plate and method of making the microchannel plate with an electron backscatter layer to amplify first strike electrons Stephen W. Carroll, Arlynn W. Smith 2025-04-08
11901151 Microchannel plate and method of making the microchannel plate with an electron backscatter layer to amplify first strike electrons Stephen W. Carroll, Arlynn W. Smith 2024-02-13
11193673 Method and apparatus for controlling operation of bake and broil elements in an electric oven Matthew H. Brown 2021-12-07
11105513 Method and apparatus for controlling operation of range top coils for cooking Matthew H. Brown 2021-08-31
10845057 Method and apparatus for controlling operation of gas range top burners for cooking Matthew H. Brown 2020-11-24
10571133 Method and apparatus for controlling operation of bake and broil elements in an electric oven Matthew H. Brown 2020-02-25
10408462 Method and apparatus for controlling operation of range top coils for cooking Matthew H. Brown 2019-09-10
10024546 Method and apparatus for controlling operation of range top coils for cooking Matthew H. Brown 2018-07-17
9220130 Method and apparatus for controlling operation of range top heating elements for cooking 2015-12-22
7624110 Method, system, and computer program product for security within a global computer network Michael Anthony Alagna, Charles Andrew Payne, Luca Loiodice 2009-11-24 $33,032,000
7523654 Method and apparatus for evaluating NVH characteristics of mechanical systems Alexander Zeitlin, Zouhair Lazreq 2009-04-28 $3,086,000
6907773 Method of independently measuring bearing preload in an axle assembly Ben Passino, Michael Catalano, Ken E. Cooper 2005-06-21
6739064 Setup gage 2004-05-25
6634835 Cutter blade with integral coolant passages 2003-10-21
6548793 Apparatus and method of inductively heat treating a beveled gear 2003-04-15
5560008 Remote authentication and authorization in a distributed data processing system Donavon W. Johnson 1996-09-24 $13,669,000
5537645 File lock management in a distributed data processing system Larry W. Henson, Donavon W. Johnson, Stephen Morgan 1996-07-16 $6,072,000
5481720 Flexible interface to authentication services in a distributed data processing environment Larry K. Loucks 1996-01-02 $7,091,000
5305440 File extension by clients in a distributed data processing system Stephen Morgan 1994-04-19 $9,041,000
5226159 File lock management in a distributed data processing system Larry W. Henson, Donavon W. Johnson, Stephen Morgan 1993-07-06 $9,557,000
5202971 System for file and record locking between nodes in a distributed data processing environment maintaining one copy of each file lock Larry W. Henson, Amal A. Shaheen-Gouda 1993-04-13 $7,853,000
5175851 System and method for controlling client machine access to a portion of a file with a variable length Donavon W. Johnson, Stephen Morgan 1992-12-29 $11,791,000
5175852 Distributed file access structure lock Donavon W. Johnson, Amal A. Shaheen-Gouda 1992-12-29 $11,791,000
5151989 Directory cache management in a distributed data processing system Donavon W. Johnson, Amal A. Shaheen-Gouda 1992-09-29 $12,999,000