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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Lance L. Smith — 52 Patents

RTX (Raytheon): 31 patents #214 of 15,912Top 2%
Hamilton Sundstrand: 8 patents #309 of 2,079Top 15%
PCPrecision Combustion: 8 patents #11 of 58Top 20%
FUFusion-Io: 3 patents #17 of 39Top 45%
UCUniversity Of Connecticut: 2 patents #187 of 887Top 25%
STSandisk Technologies: 1 patents #2,021 of 2,594Top 80%
AMD: 1 patents #8,281 of 9,280Top 90%
Town of West Hartford, CT: #14 of 885 inventorsTop 2%
Connecticut: #438 of 34,797 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
Lance L. Smith has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at RTX (Raytheon). The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in December 2025. Lance L. Smith ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Lance L. Smith in Town of West Hartford, CT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2025.peak 112000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents2002: 2 patents20022004: 2 patents2009: 2 patents20092012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents20132015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182020: 5 patents2021: 5 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 6 patents20232024: 7 patents2025: 11 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12497903 Multi-stage partial admission axial turbine Brian M. Holley, Marc J. Muldoon, Robert H. Dold, Ulf J. Jonsson, Joseph B. Staubach 2025-12-16
12480450 Hybrid electric multiple shaft core Michael D. Greenberg, Dennis Lee Cronin, Nancy Poisson, Christopher D. Ramsey, Neil J. Terwilliger 2025-11-25
12473856 Cracking and separation of ammonia fuel Peter Cocks 2025-11-18
12473858 Partial exhaust bottoming cycle Neil J. Terwilliger 2025-11-18
12449126 Injecting fuel-steam mixture into turbine engine combustor 2025-10-21
12392287 Steam cooling turbine stator vane array Stephen K. Kramer, Gregory Allen Boardman, Zhongtao Dai 2025-08-19
12270333 Partial exhaust gas condensation with inverse Brayton control Neil J. Terwilliger 2025-04-08
12258906 Fuel-cooled engine component(s) Dustin W. Davis, Won-Wook Kim 2025-03-25
12215623 Partial exhaust bottoming cycle Neil J. Terwilliger 2025-02-04
12215622 Partial exhaust condensation intercooling Neil J. Terwilliger 2025-02-04
12196137 Gas turbine engine with electrically driven compressor Neil J. Terwilliger, Neal R. Herring, Christopher J. Hanlon 2025-01-14
12163466 Injecting steam into hood cavity of turbine engine combustor Stephen K. Kramer, Zhongtao Dai, Gregory Allen Boardman 2024-12-10 $28,204,000
12129788 Introducing steam with quench air into turbine engine combustor Stephen K. Kramer, Gregory Allen Boardman, Zhongtao Dai 2024-10-29 $42,198,000
12092023 Steam cooling turbine engine combustor wall Stephen K. Kramer, Zhongtao Dai, Gregory Allen Boardman 2024-09-17 $58,793,000
12038177 Fuel injector assembly for gas turbine engine with fuel, air and steam injection Stephen K. Kramer, Zhongtao Dai, Gregory Allen Boardman 2024-07-16 $45,375,000
12006865 Cracking and separation of ammonia fuel Peter Cocks 2024-06-11 $41,461,000
11920524 Multi-fuel, fuel injection system for a turbine engine Timothy S. Snyder, Jeffrey M. Cohen, Peter Cocks, Sean C. Emerson 2024-03-05 $22,125,000
11859535 Fuel-cooled engine component(s) Dustin W. Davis, Won-Wook Kim 2024-01-02 $33,636,000
11815268 Main mixer in an axial staged combustor for a gas turbine engine Zhongtao Dai, Jeffrey M. Cohen 2023-11-14 $33,240,000
11802508 Efficient turbine engine using integrated ammonia fuel processing David Lei Ma, Joseph B. Staubach, Brian M. Holley, Sean C. Emerson 2023-10-31 $51,752,000
11745892 Catalytic fuel tank inerting apparatus for aircraft Sean C. Emerson, Peter Cocks, Eric Surawski 2023-09-05 $31,685,000
11719158 Low emissions combustor assembly for gas turbine engine Zhongtao Dai, Jeffrey M. Cohen 2023-08-08 $41,604,000
11629858 Turboexpander inter-stage heating and NH3 cracking Malcolm P. MacDonald, Sean C. Emerson, Brian M. Holley, Peter Cocks 2023-04-18 $39,537,000
11608797 Hybrid electric engine including auxiliary compressor Neil J. Terwilliger 2023-03-21 $49,821,000
11254439 Catalytic fuel tank inerting apparatus for aircraft Sean C. Emerson, Peter Cocks, Eric Surawski 2022-02-22 $21,643,000