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Paul W. Smith — 32 Patents

ITIntri-Plex Technologies: 8 patents #5 of 32Top 20%
SESimplimatic Engineering: 7 patents #2 of 48Top 5%
STSeagate Technology: 7 patents #898 of 4,701Top 20%
AMApplied Magnetics: 4 patents #7 of 65Top 15%
ATAT&T: 1 patents #10,636 of 18,772Top 60%
Lompoc, CA: #50 of 2,245 inventorsTop 3%
California: #15,919 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Paul W. Smith has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intri-Plex Technologies. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in March 2021. Paul W. Smith ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Paul W. Smith in Lompoc, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10935733 Retention apparatus and method for terminating a jacketed cable Ryan Schmidt 2021-03-02
10700479 Cable adapter panel retention clip Ajay Rajgadkar, Ryan Schmidt 2020-06-30
9536571 Debris reducing disk clamp for disk drives Adam D. Sutton, David M. Erlach, Frederic C. Petersen, Ryan Schmidt, Robert J. Tench 2017-01-03
9359665 Method of manufacturing swage mount having a mixture of conductive material and a coating material David Django Dexter, Ryan Schmidt 2016-06-07
9361929 Debris reducing disk clamp for disk drives David M. Erlach, Frederic C. Petersen, Ryan Schmidt, Adam D. Sutton, Robert J. Tench 2016-06-07
9165578 Swage mount for hard disk drives David Django Dexter, Adam D. Sutton, Ryan Schmidt 2015-10-20
9123367 Swage mount having a mixture of a conductive material and a coating material and method of manufacturing the swage mount David Django Dexter, Ryan Schmidt 2015-09-01
8824099 Disk clamp having uniform clamping load and index mark Frederic C. Petersen, Ryan Schmidt, Adam D. Sutton 2014-09-02
8675306 Debris reducing disk clamp for disk drives Adam D. Sutton, David M. Erlach, Frederic C. Petersen, Ryan Schmidt, Robert J. Tench 2014-03-18
7690100 Techniques for certifying a head-gimbal assembly Serge Fayeulle, Gary Bement 2010-04-06 $12,653,000
7194802 Tool for certifying a head-gimbal assembly Serge Fayeulle, Gary Bement 2007-03-27 $23,241,000
6961209 Disc stabilization system Gary Bement, Michael D. Mundt, Mark Chapin 2005-11-01 $7,490,000
6865040 Method and system for measuring fly height Serge Fayeulle 2005-03-08 $11,783,000
6850382 Method for wear reduction of a disc surface through stimulated take off of a head for a disc drive Serge Fayeulle 2005-02-01 $5,247,000
6785081 Fly height detector Mark Chapin, Serge Fayeulle, Michael D. Mundt, Gary Bement 2004-08-31 $5,781,000
6710976 Disk head slider having air bearing pressure relief features Mark Chapin, Michael D. Mundt 2004-03-23 $8,365,000
5939133 Method of manufacturing a slider having a carbon overcoat and an electrically conductive adhesive layer Srinivasan K. Ganapathi, Tim O. Cheung, Paul D. Frank, Robert B. Love, Allan F. Rice 1999-08-17 $1,661,000
5654850 Carbon overcoat with electrically conductive adhesive layer for magnetic head sliders Srinivasan K. Ganapathi, Tim O. Cheung, Paul D. Frank, Robert B. Love, Allan F. Rice 1997-08-05 $14,128,000
5336550 Carbon overcoat for magnetic head sliders Srinivasan K. Ganapathi, Robert B. Love 1994-08-09 $1,543,000
5285468 Analog optical fiber communication system, and laser adapted for use in such a system David Alan Ackerman, Paul M. Nitzsche 1994-02-08
5246314 Bottle air conveyor with adjustable guides Brian K. Hilbish 1993-09-21
5170879 Single file conveyor system 1992-12-15
5161919 Bottle air conveyor Brian K. Hilbish 1992-11-10
5129765 Air conveyor deck having protuberances Brian K. Hilbish 1992-07-14
5129504 Single file conveyor system 1992-07-14