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Alvy Ray Smith — 4 Patents

Microsoft: 3 patents #13,486 of 40,388Top 35%
NTNew York Institute Of Technology: 1 patents #8 of 34Top 25%
Brookville, NY: #9 of 33 inventorsTop 30%
New York: #31,814 of 115,490 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Alvy Ray Smith has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in December 2006. Alvy Ray Smith ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Alvy Ray Smith in Brookville, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2006Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1980.peak 11980: 1 patents19802001: 1 patents20012005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents2006

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7148907 Mixed but indistinguishable raster and vector image data types John Bradstreet, Jonathan Edgar Fay, Ajai Sehgal, Tanuja Abhay Joshi, John Fitzgerald Bronskill +4 more 2006-12-12 $25,378,000
6870545 Mixed but indistinguishable raster and vector image data types John Bradstreet, Jonathan Edgar Fay, Ajai Sehgal, Tanuja Abhay Joshi, John Fitzgerald Bronskill +4 more 2005-03-22 $61,729,000
6301382 Extracting a matte of a foreground object from multiple backgrounds by triangulation James F. Blinn 2001-10-09 $502,382,000
4189743 Apparatus and method for automatic coloration and/or shading of images Alexander Schure, Edwin Catmull 1980-02-19