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Jerry Wayne Smith — 54 Patents

LILexmark International: 35 patents #39 of 1,618Top 3%
DIDifco Laboratories Incorporated: 6 patents #1 of 16Top 7%
DSDraft Systems: 1 patents #6 of 9Top 70%
NPNorth American Philips: 1 patents #281 of 645Top 45%
PAPhilips Electronics North America: 1 patents #328 of 725Top 50%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
U.S. Philips: 1 patents #4,149 of 8,851Top 50%
Irvine, KY: #1 of 15 inventorsTop 7%
Kentucky: #56 of 11,577 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #46,969 of 4,157,543Top 2%
54 Patents All Time
Jerry Wayne Smith has been granted 54 US patents while listed as an inventor at Lexmark International. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in May 2025. Jerry Wayne Smith ranks #46,969 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Jerry Wayne Smith in Irvine, KY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2023.peak 61987: 1 patents19871989: 1 patents1990: 2 patents1991: 2 patents19911993: 2 patents1995: 2 patents1998: 1 patents19982000: 2 patents2002: 1 patents2003: 2 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 4 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 4 patents2008: 3 patents2010: 5 patents20102012: 3 patents2013: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 2 patents2018: 1 patents20182021: 1 patents2023: 6 patents2024: 3 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 54 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12313297 Thin-walled tube heater for fluid Makoto Aoki 2025-05-27
11998133 Cooking device having a cooking vessel and a ceramic heater 2024-06-04
11903472 Hair iron having a ceramic heater Peter Alden Bayerle, Russell Edward Lucas 2024-02-20
11862366 Making an aluminum nitride heater Makoto Aoki 2024-01-02
11828490 Ceramic heater for heating water in an appliance David Anthony Schneider, Jichang Cao, Virgil Johnson, Jr. 2023-11-28
11791074 Aluminum nitride heater Makoto Aoki 2023-10-17
11692754 Ice maker heater assemblies Russell Edward Lucas, Calvin Dale Murphy, Peter Alden Bayerle 2023-07-04
11676746 Making an aluminum nitride heater Makoto Aoki 2023-06-13
11666170 Cooking device having a cooking vessel and a ceramic heater 2023-06-06
11576944 Grape extracts and methods relating thereto 2023-02-14
11135261 Grape extracts and methods of relating thereto 2021-10-05
10025244 Circuit and method for a hybrid heater with dual function heating capability Michael Clark Campbell, Paul Wesley Etter, James Adrian Riley 2018-07-17
9801409 Moist snuff compositions and methods of making and using same 2017-10-31
9551962 Hybrid heater with dual function heating capability Michael Clark Campbell, Paul Wesley Etter, James Adrian Riley 2017-01-24
9417572 Fuser heating element for an electrophotographic imaging device Douglas Campbell Hamilton 2016-08-16 $2,472,000
9201366 Flat heater for electrophotographic belt fusing systems, and methods of making same Gregory Daniel Creteau, James Douglas Gilmore, Michael David Maul, Miranda Elizabeth Oaks, Katherine Mary Mulloy +2 more 2015-12-01 $17,152,000
8606159 Fuser for an electrophotographic imaging device to maintain a high fuser belt temperature Jichang Cao, Michael David Maul, Scott Wu 2013-12-10 $15,607,000
8320810 Belt fuser having a protuberance for an imaging device Gregory Daniel Creteau 2012-11-27 $4,936,000
8306466 Lubricant retention features on heater body of a fuser Gregory Daniel Creteau 2012-11-06 $6,605,000
8180269 Resistive heating hot roll fuser Bradley Beach, Jichang Cao, Ronald Lloyd Roe, Scott Wu 2012-05-15 $4,261,000
7723645 Switching device and system 2010-05-25 $7,293,000
7698812 Method for forming a ceramic laminate Douglas Campbell Hamilton, Larry Earl Stahlman, Kiyoshi Mizushima, Hisakazu Hujimoto, Makoto Aoki 2010-04-20 $7,703,000
7693464 Stabilizer for a toner cartridge and related method Howard C. Farris, Abigail S. Marsh, James Eric Dickerson 2010-04-06 $2,394,000
7672631 Fuser assembly having heater element with spaced-apart features Russell Edward Lucas, Katherine Mary Mulloy, Fangsheng Wu 2010-03-02 $6,905,000
7671300 Fuser assembly having heater element with spaced-apart features Russell Edward Lucas, Jason Kyle Romain, Casey Thomas Wilson 2010-03-02 $6,905,000