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Daniel Gene Smith — 50 Patents

NINikon: 49 patents #40 of 2,493Top 2%

NNNikon Metrology Nv: 3 patents #4 of 42Top 10%

Kino, AZ: #3 of 19 inventorsTop 20%

Arizona: #451 of 32,909 inventorsTop 2%

Overall (All Time): #53,743 of 4,157,543Top 2%

50 Patents All Time

Daniel Gene Smith has been granted 50 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nikon. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in July 2025. Daniel Gene Smith ranks #53,743 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list Daniel Gene Smith in Kino, AZ, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 50 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12346029	Curved reticle by mechanical and phase bending along orthogonal axes	Donis Flagello, Michael Binnard, Stephen P. Renwick	2025-07-01
12203745	Metrology for additive manufacturing	Eric Peter Goodwin, Heather Lynn Durko, Johnathan Agustin Marquez, Michael Binnard, Patrick Shih Chang +4 more	2025-01-21
12104891	Spatially filtered talbot interferometer for wafer distortion measurement	Goldie Goldstein, Hidemitsu Toba, Shunsuke Kibayashi, Katsura Otaki, Eric Peter Goodwin	2024-10-01
11982521	Measurement of a change in a geometrical characteristic and/or position of a workpiece	Michael Binnard	2024-05-14	$33,809,000
11934105	Optical objective for operation in EUV spectral region	David M. Williamson	2024-03-19	$28,784,000
11578969	Optical assembly, method for producing data in the same, and method for manufacturing structure	—	2023-02-14
11300884	Illumination system with curved 1d-patterned mask for use in EUV-exposure tool	David M. Williamson, Donis Flagello, Michael Binnard	2022-04-12
11099483	Euv lithography system for dense line patterning	Donis Flagello, David M. Williamson, Stephen P. Renwick, Michael Binnard	2021-08-24
11061338	High-resolution position encoder with image sensor and encoded target pattern	Jonathan K. Wells, Paul Derek Coon, Matthew Rosa, Johnathan Agustin Marquez, Michael Binnard +3 more	2021-07-13
11054745	Illumination system with flat 1D-patterned mask for use in EUV-exposure tool	David M. Williamson	2021-07-06
10928187	Compensation for Goos-Hanchen error in autofocus systems	Eric Peter Goodwin	2021-02-23
10890849	EUV lithography system for dense line patterning	Donis Flagello, David M. Williamson, Stephen P. Renwick, Michael Binnard	2021-01-12
10837763	Optical assembly, method for producing data in the same, and method for manufacturing structure	—	2020-11-17
10794689	Autofocus system and method	Eric Peter Goodwin	2020-10-06
10747117	Extreme ultraviolet lithography system that utilizes pattern stitching	Michael Binnard, David M. Williamson	2020-08-18
10719017	Correction of errors caused by ambient non-uniformities in a fringe-projection autofocus system in absence of a reference mirror	Eric Peter Goodwin	2020-07-21
10690317	Illumination device for optimizing polarization in an illumination pupil	Michael Sogard	2020-06-23
10295911	Extreme ultraviolet lithography system that utilizes pattern stitching	Michael Binnard, David M. Williamson	2019-05-21
10197668	Eighth wave corner cube retarder for laser radar	—	2019-02-05
10180496	Laser radar with remote local oscillator	Eric Peter Goodwin, Anthony R. Slotwinski, Mina Rezk, Alexander Cooper, Thomas M. Hedges	2019-01-15
10139492	Radar systems with dual fiber coupled lasers	Mina Rezk, Anthony R. Slotwinski, Eric Peter Goodwin, Alexander Cooper, Thomas M. Hedges	2018-11-27
9977343	Correction of errors caused by ambient non-uniformities in a fringe-projection autofocus system in absence of a reference mirror	Eric Peter Goodwin	2018-05-22
9964745	Compact laser radar corner cube	—	2018-05-08
9864204	High order focus in laser radar tooling ball measurements	—	2018-01-09
9816805	Compensation for Goos-Hanchen error in autofocus systems	Eric Peter Goodwin	2017-11-14