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Derek A. Smith — 12 Patents

KEKellogg: 8 patents #13 of 236Top 6%
KBKraft Foods Group Brands: 2 patents #725 of 1,623Top 45%
Plymouth, MI: #114 of 1,052 inventorsTop 15%
Michigan: #7,722 of 86,293 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Derek A. Smith has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Kellogg. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in July 2023. Derek A. Smith ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Derek A. Smith in Plymouth, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2016 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2019.peak 32016: 2 patents20162018: 1 patents20182019: 3 patents20192020: 3 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
D992416 Food container Sean Sanders, Matthew J. Costello, Jeff Nuss, Donald Joswick, Mark Allen Fager 2023-07-18
D947667 Food container Sean Sanders, Matthew J. Costello, Jeff Nuss, Donald Joswick, Mark Allen Fager 2022-04-05
D938820 Lid Sean Sanders, Matthew J. Costello, Jeff Nuss, Donald Joswick, Mark Allen Fager 2021-12-21
D902029 Food container Sean Sanders, Matthew J. Costello, Jeff Nuss, Donald Joswick, Mark Allen Fager 2020-11-17
D898564 Food container Sean Sanders, Matthew J. Costello, Jeff Nuss, Donald Joswick, Mark Allen Fager 2020-10-13
D892622 Food container Sean Sanders, Matthew J. Costello, Jeff Nuss, Donald Joswick, Mark Allen Fager 2020-08-11
D849526 Food container Sean Sanders, Matthew J. Costello, Jeff Nuss, Donald Joswick, Mark Allen Fager 2019-05-28
D847557 Roaster Daniel M. Kraemer, Luis Humberto Velazquez Rascon, Luke A. Westra, Sean Sanders 2019-05-07
D843206 Food container Sean Sanders, Matthew J. Costello, Jeff Nuss, Donald Joswick, Mark Allen Fager 2019-03-19
D825983 Roaster Daniel M. Kraemer, Luis Humberto Velazquez Rascon, Luke A. Westra, Sean Sanders 2018-08-21
D764299 Container Paola Appendini, Kevin Spern, Simon Gainey, James J. Miller, Aaron Avila +1 more 2016-08-23
D758873 Container Paola Appendini, Kevin Spern, Simon Gainey, James J. Miller, Aaron Avila +1 more 2016-06-14