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Marcus A. Smith — 11 Patents

HP: 7 patents #2,783 of 7,018Top 40%
OPOpë: 3 patents #3 of 6Top 50%
Theodore, AL: #3 of 46 inventorsTop 7%
Alabama: #606 of 10,951 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Marcus A. Smith has been granted 11 US patents. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in August 2024. Marcus A. Smith ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Marcus A. Smith in Theodore, AL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2000.peak 31997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 2 patents19992000: 3 patents20002018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents20212024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12061408 Apparatus with light-based control of light-based computation Joshua Norman Smith, Robert Chad McCollum 2024-08-13
11137664 Calculating arithmetic sums in a single operation with light Joshua Norman Smith, Robert Chad McCollum 2021-10-05
10551720 Light based computing apparatus Joshua Norman Smith, Robert Chad McCollum 2020-02-04
9939711 Light based computing apparatus Joshua Norman Smith, Robert Chad McCollum 2018-04-10
6094278 Method and apparatus for reducing printer memory John Mauzey 2000-07-25 $100,695,000
6091418 Printer with procedure for pattern tiling and scaling Christopher Taylor Creel 2000-07-18 $107,712,000
6031623 Computer system with evolving printer DeVerl Stokes 2000-02-29 $77,667,000
5999710 Merge plane generation for a data processing pipeline Christopher Taylor Creel, Jason Main 1999-12-07 $45,355,000
5982991 Method and apparatus for switching between binary and arithmetic operators during raster operations 1999-11-09 $32,691,000
5754751 Software-based procedure and apparatus for enhancement of a gray level image Jeffrey L. Trask 1998-05-19 $30,215,000
5657430 Software-based procedure for conversion of a scalable font character bitmap to a gray level bitmap Brian E. Hoffmann, Jeffrey L. Trask 1997-08-12 $53,926,000