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Kenneth J. Curran — 21 Patents

SESmith Engineering: 7 patents #2 of 24Top 9%
VIVivitar: 4 patents #5 of 15Top 35%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Thousand Oaks, CA: #104 of 1,766 inventorsTop 6%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Kenneth J. Curran has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Smith Engineering. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in June 2004. Kenneth J. Curran ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Kenneth J. Curran in Thousand Oaks, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6753849 Universal remote TV mouse David J. Dick 2004-06-22
6567071 Postitioning system using infrared radiation Jay Smith 2003-05-20
5796354 Hand-attachable controller with direction sensing Michael C. Cartabiano, David J. Dick, Douglas R. Gibbs, Morgan Kirby, Richard L. May +2 more 1998-08-18
5796387 Positioning system using infrared radiation Jay Smith, III 1998-08-18
5764164 Ergonomic hand-attachable controller Michael C. Cartabiano, David J. Dick, Douglas R. Gibbs, Morgan Kirby, Richard L. May +2 more 1998-06-09
5401025 Remote control system for raster scanned video display Jay Smith, III 1995-03-28
5394168 Dual-mode hand-held game controller Jay Smith, III 1995-02-28
5351969 Remote control system for raster scanned video display Jay Smith, III 1994-10-04
D348083 Video game controller Jay Smith, III 1994-06-21
4950200 Whispering doll — 1990-08-21
4923428 Interactive talking toy — 1990-05-08
4900289 Mechanism for animating a doll's facial features Richard L. May 1990-02-13
4875096 Encoding of audio and digital signals in a video signal Ralph H. Baer, Jay Smith, III 1989-10-17
4836465 Magnetic tape transport system Richard L. May 1989-06-06
4786967 Interactive video apparatus with audio and video branching Jay Smith, III, Ralph H. Baer 1988-11-22
4775352 Talking doll with animated features Richard L. May 1988-10-04
4704023 Camera to flash adapter — 1987-11-03
4474450 Camera to flash adapter — 1984-10-02
4433914 Exposure meter — 1984-02-28
4410250 Flash adapater and system — 1983-10-18
4390877 Remote control systems for toy vehicles, and the like — 1983-06-28

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