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Robert L. Smith — 65 Patents

Merck: 29 patents #282 of 9,382Top 4%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 15 patents #210 of 3,180Top 7%
CICorning Incorporated: 7 patents #815 of 3,890Top 25%
MAMaxtor: 2 patents #206 of 656Top 35%
TLTec Laboratories: 2 patents #4 of 9Top 45%
VEVersicor: 1 patents #4 of 9Top 45%
UKUniversity Of Kansas: 1 patents #329 of 743Top 45%
NPNps Pharmaceuticals: 1 patents #74 of 103Top 75%
NONorthrop: 1 patents #86 of 277Top 35%
San Jose, CA: #625 of 32,062 inventorsTop 2%
California: #5,108 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #33,516 of 4,157,543Top 1%
65 Patents All Time
Robert L. Smith has been granted 65 US patents while listed as an inventor at Merck. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in January 2025. Robert L. Smith ranks #33,516 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.81%). Patent records list Robert L. Smith in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 1984.peak 71980: 1 patents19801981: 2 patents1982: 3 patents1984: 7 patents19841985: 3 patents1987: 1 patents1988: 1 patents19881989: 5 patents1990: 3 patents1992: 1 patents19921994: 3 patents1996: 1 patents1999: 1 patents19992000: 3 patents2001: 1 patents2003: 2 patents20032005: 1 patents2007: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112015: 1 patents2018: 3 patents2019: 5 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 4 patents2024: 7 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 65 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12190908 Near-field transducer (NFT) designs for improved performance of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) Sukumar Rajauria, Erhard Schreck 2025-01-07
12170435 Managing laser diode cavity thermal transients in HAMR disk drives Erhard Schreck, Sukumar Rajauria 2024-12-17 $82,578,000
12142896 Preheating laser diodes with reverse bias for HAMR disk drives Erhard Schreck, Sukumar Rajauria, Joey M. Poss 2024-11-12 $80,541,000
12103885 Enhanced strength of glass by combining redraw and chemical thinning processes Bethany Jon Alderman, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Kuan-Ting Kuo 2024-10-01 $19,669,000
12030276 Foldable glass article including an optically transparent polymeric hard-coat and methods of making the same Kuan-Ting Kuo 2024-07-09 $22,082,000
12027181 Tape assemblies having flangeless reel configurations and single flange reel configurations for magnetic recording devices Erhard Schreck 2024-07-02 $33,124,000
12005677 Article comprising puncture resistant laminate with ultra-thin glass layer Shinu Baby, Kuan-Ting Kuo, Yousef Kayed Qaroush 2024-06-11 $17,327,000
11934687 Full disk serpentine write path for tamper-proof disk drive Erhard Schreck, Sukumar Rajauria 2024-03-19 $9,873,000
11783854 Data storage device with detection and mitigation of non-nominal head heat dissipation Sukumar Rajauria 2023-10-10 $10,212,000
11709291 Fiberglass composite cover for foldable electronic display and methods of making the same Jun Hou, Kuan-Ting Kuo, Kevin Robert McCarthy 2023-07-25 $11,350,000
11694722 Data timestamp and read counter for magnetic recording devices Shaomin Xiong, Erhard Schreck, Sukumar Rajauria 2023-07-04
11562769 Tape assemblies having movable reel configurations for magnetic recording devices Erhard Schreck 2023-01-24 $12,299,000
11430482 Data storage device detecting NFT contamination by measuring thermal gradient and magnetic write width Sukumar Rajauria, Taiebeh Tahmasebi 2022-08-30 $6,828,000
10974487 Foldable electronic device assemblies and cover elements for the same Polly Wanda Chu, Michael Donovan, Timothy Michael Gross, Louis Mattos, Jr., Prakash Chandra Panda 2021-04-13 $22,727,000
10688756 Foldable electronic device assemblies and cover elements for the same Polly Wanda Chu, Michael Donovan, Timothy Michael Gross, Louis Mattos, Jr., Prakash Chandra Panda 2020-06-23 $16,286,000
10391746 Flexible glass laminate structures for architectural design and other applications Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Michael William Price, Windsor Pipes Thomas, III, James Ernest Webb 2019-08-27 $9,405,000
10395678 Method and system for determining slider-disk contact in a magnetic recording disk drive with dual fly-height actuators Sukumar Rajauria, Erhard Schreck 2019-08-27 $33,289,000
10354680 Using window underlayer structures to protect near field transducers on heat assisted magnetic recording heads Sukumar Rajauria 2019-07-16 $31,954,000
10283145 Electromagnetically-shielded near-field transducer thermal sensor for heat-assisted magnetic recording Sukumar Rajauria, Wan Kuang, Takuya Matsumoto, Erhard Schreck 2019-05-07 $6,761,000
10217481 Data storage device employing low duty cycle square wave to detect head touchdown Shaomin Xiong, Na Wang, Sripathi Vangipuram Canchi 2019-02-26 $21,830,000
10059722 Cephalosporin derivatives and methods of use Jeffrey Aube, Carl Nathan, Ben Gold, Paul Ronald Hanson, Chunjing Liu +3 more 2018-08-28
10056098 Data storage device employing multi-mode sensing circuitry for multiple head sensor elements Sukumar Rajauria, Erhard Schreck, John Contreras, Joey M. Poss, Rehan Ahmed Zakai +1 more 2018-08-21 $15,220,000
9947346 Using window underlayer structures to protect near field transducers on heat assisted magnetic recording heads Sukumar Rajauria 2018-04-17 $17,772,000
RE45335 Triple-action remedy for removing toxic oils from skin with simultaneous soothing and healing John Mark Christensen, Wendy S. Langley, Vernon W. Smith, Brian Chipman 2015-01-13
8067358 Triple-action remedy for removing toxic oils from skin with simultaneous soothing and healing John Mark Christiansen, Wendy S. Langley, Vernon W. Smith, Brian Chipman 2011-11-29