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Frank T. Smith — 31 Patents

STStorage Technology: 16 patents #22 of 682Top 4%
Eastman Kodak: 8 patents #1,387 of 8,114Top 20%
Oracle: 3 patents #4,054 of 14,854Top 30%
ECEmc Ip Holding Company: 2 patents #1,803 of 4,608Top 40%
Nederland, CO: #5 of 124 inventorsTop 5%
Colorado: #1,005 of 40,980 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Frank T. Smith has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Storage Technology. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in August 2019. Frank T. Smith ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Frank T. Smith in Nederland, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2004.peak 61980: 1 patents19801982: 1 patents1985: 1 patents19851987: 1 patents1988: 1 patents19881989: 1 patents1990: 1 patents19901993: 1 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 6 patents2005: 4 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 2 patents20072015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10372463 Provisioning a computerized device with an operating system Kevin P. Twomey, Daniel J. Roche, Xiao Lou, Thomas J. Kelly, Isaias A. Barinas 2019-08-06
10062042 Electronically assigning tasks to workers while the workers are distributed among different locations within a work area Thomas J. Kelly, John R. Carmody, Kevin P. Twomey 2018-08-28
9715895 Multi-brush interface for power rail communications 2017-07-25 $62,295,000
9378483 Tracking modulation/demodulation for data library communications 2016-06-28 $41,983,000
9110639 Power supply control across independently powered modules in a storage library James Ries, Jon Mark Holdman 2015-08-18 $58,136,000
7255525 Online, safe service technique for automated libraries Timothy C. Ostwald, James M. Frary 2007-08-14
7184238 Track impedance anomaly detection in an automated data storage library Timothy C. Ostwald, Daniel James Plutt 2007-02-27
7080388 Scalable, space efficient, high density automated library Charles A. Milligan 2006-07-18
7010797 Scalable, space efficient, high density automated library Charles A. Milligan 2006-03-07
6931304 Scalable means of supplying power to a remotely controlled, semi-autonomous robot David W. Miller, Timothy C. Ostwald 2005-08-16 $9,058,000
6885911 Track anomaly detection in an automated data storage library 2005-04-26 $10,025,000
6868049 Method and system for accessing multiple rows of media objects in an automated storage library using a single track robotic mechanism Timothy C. Ostwald, James M. Frary 2005-03-15 $10,640,000
6840360 Automated storage library power strip fault detection Timothy C. Ostwald 2005-01-11 $7,488,000
6798612 Power strip distribution system and method for an automated robotic device in a data storage system Timothy C. Ostwald, Daniel James Plutt 2004-09-28 $6,798,000
6751048 Power rail distribution system and method for an automated robotic device in a data storage system Timothy C. Ostwald 2004-06-15 $6,333,000
6741182 Automated storage library brush failure detection Sebastian Canaday 2004-05-25 $10,360,000
6698359 Data storage library rail anomaly recovery Timothy C. Ostwald 2004-03-02 $7,473,000
6691001 Diagnostic port between independent robots Timothy C. Ostwald 2004-02-10 $7,307,000
6690994 System and method for recovering an automated robotic device in a data storage library Timothy C. Ostwald, David Christopher Black 2004-02-10 $7,307,000
6668991 Redundant power supply system and method for an automated robotic device in a data storage system Sebastian Canaday, Timothy C. Ostwald, Steven Ochs 2003-12-30
6480759 Diagnostic port between independent robots Timothy C. Ostwald 2002-11-12 $8,162,000
6327519 Method and system for transferring energy between robotic mechanisms in an automated storage library Timothy C. Ostwald 2001-12-04 $28,413,000
6227927 Sound producing device 2001-05-08
5212705 AlAS Zn-stop diffusion layer in AlGaAs laser diodes Keith B. Kahen 1993-05-18 $3,737,000
4891093 Processes for the manufacture of laser including monolithically integrated planar devices 1990-01-02 $4,211,000