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Christopher D. Smith — 13 Patents

Pitney Bowes: 5 patents #298 of 1,313Top 25%
STStepan: 1 patents #127 of 221Top 60%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Watkinsville, GA: #13 of 136 inventorsTop 10%
Georgia: #2,520 of 35,610 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Christopher D. Smith has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Pitney Bowes. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in April 2024. Christopher D. Smith ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Christopher D. Smith in Watkinsville, GA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1990.peak 21987: 1 patents19871990: 2 patents19901995: 1 patents19951996: 2 patents19962000: 1 patents20002011: 1 patents20112015: 2 patents20152018: 1 patents20182024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11970192 Railroad energy delivery system 2024-04-30
11896065 Personal temperature regulation device John P. Vacalis 2024-02-13
9963629 Foamers for unloading high-condensate gas wells Nicholas Pendleton 2018-05-08 $9,395,000
9149166 Low energy centrifugal liquid-solid separator system Jerry Davey, Richard P. Escue, Robert P. Kazanjy 2015-10-06
D736139 Boat hull having twin sponsons 2015-08-11
7903266 System and method for using divided fonts to achieve proportional spacing Robert G. Arsenault, Beth A. Jennings, Craig J. DeFillippo, Sandra J. Peterson, William F. Bailey +3 more 2011-03-08 $26,261,000
6024429 Mailing machine including ink jet printing having ink availability checking Jean-Hiram Coffy, Jerome Jackson, Edilberto I. Salazar 2000-02-15 $58,953,000
5585613 Postage metering apparatus including means for guarding against printing a postage value without accouting therefor Easton F. Bell, Rein Linask, Arno Muller, Easwaran Nambudiri, Peter A. Pagliaro +2 more 1996-12-17 $21,027,000
5579752 Adjustable bow sight Richard F. Nelson, Paul J. Kenny 1996-12-03
5388136 X-ray inspection apparatus for electronic circuits David K. Halliday, Colin David McCall, Alexander S. McKinnon 1995-02-07 $10,783,000
4926193 Thermal transfer ribbon cartridge including ribbon perforating means William Berson, Julius Gluck, Patrick M. Murphy, Duc H. Tran 1990-05-15 $6,335,000
4899172 Method and apparatus for perforating indicia on used thermal transfer ribbon within a cassette William Berson, Julius Gluck, Patrick M. Murphy, Duc H. Tran 1990-02-06 $9,053,000
4644206 Continuously variable torque converter 1987-02-17