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William D. Smith — 57 Patents

NUNuvasive: 16 patents #34 of 328Top 15%
FOFormfactor: 7 patents #25 of 177Top 15%
GE: 6 patents #5,843 of 36,430Top 20%
CTCommunications Technology: 4 patents #4 of 31Top 15%
LILexmark International: 3 patents #642 of 1,615Top 40%
WPWorld Properties: 3 patents #11 of 86Top 15%
SCSchlage Lock Company: 2 patents #275 of 564Top 50%
Intel: 2 patents #13,316 of 30,777Top 45%
MOMarathon Oil: 1 patents #133 of 213Top 65%
RORogers: 1 patents #106 of 245Top 45%
TDTwin Disc: 1 patents #26 of 44Top 60%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
ATAT&T: 1 patents #10,636 of 18,772Top 60%
CACarborundum: 1 patents #54 of 126Top 45%
Las Vegas, NV: #41 of 3,439 inventorsTop 2%
Nevada: #118 of 8,397 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #42,642 of 4,157,543Top 2%
57 Patents All Time
William D. Smith has been granted 57 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nuvasive. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in April 2025. William D. Smith ranks #42,642 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.0%). Patent records list William D. Smith in Las Vegas, NV, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 57 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12285341 Vertebral body replacement Benjamin Arnold, Rich Mueller, Sharath Bellary 2025-04-29
12186198 Vertebral body replacement and insertion methods Benjamin Arnold, Daniel Zatta, Jeremy Malik, Morton B. Albert 2025-01-07
11896870 Devices and methods for exercise or analysis of the neck region Petrus Haase 2024-02-13
11712344 Vertebral body replacement Benjamin Arnold, Rich Mueller, Sharath Bellary 2023-08-01 $7,126,000
11389301 Vertebral body replacement and insertion methods Benjamin Arnold, Daniel Zatta, Jeremy Malik, Morton B. Albert 2022-07-19 $22,519,000
10485672 Vertebral body replacement and insertion methods Benjamin Arnold, Daniel Zatta, Jeremy Malik, Morton B. Albert 2019-11-26 $9,655,000
10413421 Vertebral body replacement Benjamin Arnold, Rich Mueller, Sharath Bellary 2019-09-17 $28,034,000
9949840 Systems and methods for performing spine surgery 2018-04-24
9700425 Vertebral body replacement and insertion methods Benjamin Arnold, Daniel Zatta, Jeremy Malik, Morton B. Albert 2017-07-11 $9,987,000
9670972 Trimmed lock-up clutch Richard A. Shaw 2017-06-06 $2,368,000
D788308 Intervertebral implant Matthew Curran 2017-05-30
9636233 Vertebral body replacement Benjamin Arnold, Rich Mueller, Sharath Bellary 2017-05-02 $8,583,000
9615866 Surgical fixation system and related methods Chad Grant, Richard Mueller, Eric Dasso, Christopher Huntington, Christopher M. Campbell 2017-04-11 $17,555,000
9579131 Systems and methods for performing spine surgery Seth Gustine 2017-02-28 $19,796,000
D770045 Intervertebral implant Matthew Curran 2016-10-25
9387090 Vertebral body replacement Benjamin Arnold, Rich Mueller, Sharath Bellary 2016-07-12 $6,313,000
9259144 Surgical access system and related methods Jared Arambula, Scot Martinelli 2016-02-16 $12,427,000
9138217 Surgical access system and related methods Troy B. Woolley, Brian Snider, Michael Serra, Michael Mindoro 2015-09-22 $7,794,000
8790406 Systems and methods for performing spine surgery 2014-07-29
D671645 Intervertebral implant Matthew Curran 2012-11-27
7714598 Contact carriers (tiles) for populating larger substrates with spring contacts Benjamin N. Eldridge, Thomas H. Dozier, II, Igor Y. Khandros, Gaetan L. Mathieu 2010-05-11 $2,093,000
D565114 Set of alphabetic labels 2008-03-25
7347702 Contact carriers (tiles) for populating larger substrates with spring contacts Benjamin N. Eldridge, Thomas H. Dozier, II, Igor Y. Khandros, Gaetan L. Mathieu 2008-03-25 $9,375,000
7310494 Developing agent transport and storage Alfred Louis Fahmy, Robert Watson McAlpine, Franklin Joseph Palumbo, Donald Wayne Stafford, Gregory Scott Tigges 2007-12-18 $7,335,000
7167672 Method and device for conveying waste toner in an image forming device Donald Wayne Stafford, Robert Watson McAlpine, Franklin Joseph Palumbo, Alfred Louis Fahmy, Gregory Scott Tigges 2007-01-23 $6,081,000