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Robert Stanley Smith — 14 Patents

RCRigetti & Co: 14 patents #7 of 69Top 15%
Emeryville, CA: #52 of 659 inventorsTop 8%
California: #43,920 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Robert Stanley Smith has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Rigetti & Co. The first was granted in 2021 and the most recent in May 2025. Robert Stanley Smith ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Robert Stanley Smith in Emeryville, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2021 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2021.peak 42021: 4 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 4 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12293254 Quantum instruction compiler for optimizing hybrid algorithms Eric Christopher Peterson 2025-05-06
12112234 Low-latency, high-performance hybrid computing Peter Jonathan Karalekas, Eric Christopher Peterson, Nikolas Anton Tezak, Adam David Lynch, Christopher Butler Osborn +1 more 2024-10-08
12020118 Distributed quantum computing system William J. Zeng 2024-06-25
12001923 Quantum streaming kernel Nikolas Anton Tezak, Marcus Palmer da Silva, Christopher Mogan Wilson 2024-06-04
11829753 Streaming execution for a quantum processing system 2023-11-28
11727299 Distributed quantum computing system William J. Zeng 2023-08-15
11694108 Quantum streaming kernel Nikolas Anton Tezak, Marcus Palmer da Silva, Christopher Mogan Wilson 2023-07-04
11567762 Streaming execution for a quantum processing system 2023-01-31
11494681 Quantum instruction compiler for optimizing hybrid algorithms Eric Christopher Peterson 2022-11-08
11477015 Quantum state blockchain Nicholas C. Rubin, Johannes Sebastian Otterbach 2022-10-18
11194573 Streaming execution for a quantum processing system 2021-12-07
11112842 Resetting qubits in a superconducting quantum processor Nikolas Anton Tezak 2021-09-07
11010145 Retargetable compilation for quantum computing systems Eric Christopher Peterson 2021-05-18
10977570 Distributed quantum computing system William J. Zeng 2021-04-13