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George E. Smith — 53 Patents

QUQuarkstar: 19 patents #12 of 26Top 50%
APAvago Technologies Ecbu Ip (Singapore) Pte.: 7 patents #47 of 427Top 15%
ATAgilent Technologies: 4 patents #561 of 3,411Top 20%
HP: 4 patents #4,645 of 7,018Top 70%
NVNational Oilwell Varco: 3 patents #126 of 660Top 20%
Micron: 2 patents #4,433 of 6,374Top 70%
APAvago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte.: 1 patents #883 of 2,004Top 45%
VIVarco I/P: 1 patents #91 of 168Top 55%
APAvago Technologies General Ip Pte.: 1 patents #18 of 125Top 15%
APAvago Technologies Ecbu Ip Pte.: 1 patents #24 of 98Top 25%
Sunnyvale, CA: #316 of 14,302 inventorsTop 3%
California: #7,278 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #48,528 of 4,157,543Top 2%
53 Patents All Time
George E. Smith has been granted 53 US patents while listed as an inventor at Quarkstar. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in July 2023. George E. Smith ranks #48,528 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list George E. Smith in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2013.peak 51980: 1 patents19801984: 2 patents1985: 2 patents1990: 1 patents19901991: 2 patents1992: 1 patents1996: 1 patents19961999: 1 patents2002: 1 patents2004: 3 patents20042006: 1 patents2007: 4 patents2008: 3 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 1 patents2012: 3 patents20122013: 5 patents2014: 3 patents2015: 2 patents20152017: 1 patents2018: 2 patents2019: 4 patents20192020: 3 patents2021: 1 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 53 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11703631 Illumination devices including multiple light emitting elements Wilson Dau, Robert C. Gardner, George Lerman, Louis Lerman, Christopher H. Lowery +6 more 2023-07-18
11353167 Light-emitting devices providing asymmetrical propagation of light Roland H. Haitz, Robert C. Gardner, Louis Lerman 2022-06-07
11339948 Light-emitting device and luminaire incorporating same Robert C. Gardner 2022-05-24
11009193 Light-emitting devices providing asymmetrical propagation of light Roland H. Haitz, Robert C. Gardner, Louis Lerman 2021-05-18
10859758 Illumination devices including multiple light emitting elements Wilson Dau, Robert C. Gardner, George Lerman, Louis Lerman, Christopher H. Lowery +6 more 2020-12-08
10823905 Illumination devices including multiple light emitting elements Wilson Dau, Robert C. Gardner, George Lerman, Louis Lerman, Christopher H. Lowery +6 more 2020-11-03
10670226 Light-emitting device and luminaire incorporating same Robert C. Gardner 2020-06-02
10473292 Solid state illumination devices including spatially-extended light sources and reflectors Robert C. Gardner, Roland H. Haitz, Louis Lerman 2019-11-12
10451250 Light-emitting devices providing asymmetrical propagation of light Roland H. Haitz, Robert C. Gardner, Louis Lerman 2019-10-22
10408428 Light-emitting devices providing asymmetrical propagation of light Roland H. Haitz, Robert C. Gardner, Louis Lerman 2019-09-10
10340060 Overcurrent protection devices and circuits for shielded cables Samuel L. Sharpless 2019-07-02
10107475 Light-emitting device and luminaire incorporating same Robert C. Gardner 2018-10-23
9863605 Light-emitting devices providing asymmetrical propagation of light Roland H. Haitz, Robert C. Gardner, Louis Lerman 2018-01-09
9822948 Solid state illumination devices including spatially-extended light sources and reflectors Robert C. Gardner, Roland H. Haitz, Louis Lerman 2017-11-21
9081125 Illumination devices including multiple light emitting elements Wilson Dau, Robert C. Gardner, George Lerman, Louis Lerman, Christopher H. Lowery +6 more 2015-07-14
9028120 Illumination devices including multiple light emitting elements Wilson Dau, Robert C. Gardner, George Lerman, Louis Lerman, Christopher H. Lowery +5 more 2015-05-12
8899808 Lightguide luminaire module for direct and indirect illumination Ingo Speier, Wilson Dau, Robert C. Gardner, George Lerman, Louis Lerman +5 more 2014-12-02
8833969 Indirect direct troffer luminaire Ingo Speier, Wilson Dau, Robert C. Gardner, George Lerman, Louis Lerman +5 more 2014-09-16
8746459 Automatic vibratory separator Eric Scott, Lyndon Stone, Norman Frank Padalino, Kevin McDonough, Kenneth W. Seyffert +3 more 2014-06-10 $65,884,000
8602586 Illumination devices including multiple light emitting elements Wilson Dau, Robert C. Gardner, George Lerman, Louis Lerman, Christopher H. Lowery +5 more 2013-12-10
8573823 Solid-state luminaire Wilson Dau, Robert C. Gardner, George Lerman, Louis Lerman, Chris Lowery +5 more 2013-11-05
8561805 Automatic vibratory separator Eric Scott, Lyndon Stone, Norman Frank Padalino, Kevin McDonough, Kenneth W. Seyffert +3 more 2013-10-22 $66,131,000
8506112 Illumination devices including multiple light emitting elements Wilson Dau, Robert C. Gardner, George Lerman, Louis Lerman, Christopher H. Lowery +5 more 2013-08-13
8385005 Lens structure having low pass filter characteristic 2013-02-26
8188419 Eccentric field imaging lens with titlted and decentered surfaces 2012-05-29