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Nicholas E. Smith — 18 Patents

NTNavigation Technologies: 7 patents #14 of 90Top 20%
HBHere Global B.V.: 4 patents #159 of 824Top 20%
NANavteq North America: 2 patents #41 of 98Top 45%
NVIDIA: 2 patents #2,935 of 7,811Top 40%
NBNavteq B.V.: 1 patents #54 of 115Top 50%
The Boeing: 1 patents #8,630 of 15,756Top 55%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Nicholas E. Smith has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Navigation Technologies. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in August 2023. Nicholas E. Smith ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Nicholas E. Smith in Worcester, IL, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2001.peak 31999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 3 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 2 patents20032005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092014: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11718418 Determining servicability and remaining life of an in-service structure using three-dimensional scan data Thomas A. Brown, Craig Martin Farniok, Todd Jeremy Roffo, Jacob Paul Thilges 2023-08-08 $31,949,000
10783775 Method and system for using intersecting electronic horizons Sinisa Durekovic 2020-09-22
10198940 Method and system for using intersecting electronic horizons Sinisa Durekovic 2019-02-05
9799216 Method and system for using intersecting electronic horizons Sinisa Durekovic 2017-10-24
9330564 Method and system for using intersecting electronic horizons Sinisa Durekovic 2016-05-03
8717192 Method and system for using intersecting electronic horizons Sinisa Durekovic 2014-05-06
7599998 Message handling communication between a source processor core and destination processor cores Mark James Galbraith, Harry Samuel Thomas Fearnhamm, Bruce James Mathewson 2009-10-06 $1,723,000
7197500 System and method for use and storage of geographic data on physical media Vijaya S. Israni, Richard A. Ashby, Paul M. Bouzide, John Jasper, Robert Fernekes +4 more 2007-03-27 $18,782,000
7152186 Cross-triggering of processing devices Cedric Denis Robert Airaud, Paul Kimelman, Ian Field, Man Cheung Joseph Yiu, David Francis McHale +1 more 2006-12-19 $3,221,000
6919821 Method and system for collecting meteorological data using in-vehicle systems 2005-07-19 $36,032,000
6571195 Method for calculating distance using piece-wise linear interpolation Bishnu Phuyal 2003-05-27
6507850 Segment aggregation and interleaving of data types in a geographic database and methods for use thereof in a navigation application Michael Livshutz, Richard A. Ashby, Paul M. Bouzide, Srinivasa Doddapaneni, Robert Fernekes +7 more 2003-01-14
6473770 Segment aggregation and interleaving of data types in a geographic database and methods for use thereof in a navigation application Michael Livshutz, Vijaya S. Israni, Richard A. Ashby, Paul M. Bouzide, Srinivasa Doddapaneni +7 more 2002-10-29
6314365 Method and system of providing navigation services to cellular phone devices from a server 2001-11-06
6308177 System and method for use and storage of geographic data on physical media Vijaya S. Israni, Richard A. Ashby, Gregory Nyczak 2001-10-23
6184823 Geographic database architecture for representation of named intersections and complex intersections and methods for formation thereof and use in a navigation application program Richard A. Ashby, Vijaya S. Israni 2001-02-06
6038559 Segment aggregation in a geographic database and methods for use thereof in a navigation application Richard A. Ashby, Paul M. Bouzide, Srinivasa Doddapaneni, Robert Fernekes, Matthew Friederich +6 more 2000-03-14
5968109 System and method for use and storage of geographic data on physical media Vijaya S. Israni, Richard A. Ashby, Paul M. Bouzide, John Jasper, Robert Fernekes +4 more 1999-10-19