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Patrick Smith — 46 Patents

SISynaptics Incorporated: 23 patents #30 of 606Top 5%
PAPergo (Europe) Ab: 6 patents #13 of 56Top 25%
WCWill Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co.: 5 patents #1 of 19Top 6%
SESensor Electronics: 4 patents #2 of 3Top 70%
FAFingerprint Cards Ab: 4 patents #16 of 115Top 15%
PAPergo Ag: 1 patents #8 of 24Top 35%
DEDetector Electronics: 1 patents #15 of 44Top 35%
FAFingerprint Cards Anacatum Ip Ab: 1 patents #36 of 82Top 45%
BEBanner Engineering: 1 patents #56 of 86Top 70%
San Jose, CA: #1,134 of 32,062 inventorsTop 4%
California: #9,249 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #62,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time
Patrick Smith has been granted 46 US patents while listed as an inventor at Synaptics Incorporated. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in October 2022. Patrick Smith ranks #62,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Patrick Smith in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11475692 Optical sensor for integration over a display backplane Arash Akhavan Fomani, Marek Mienko, Paul Wickboldt 2022-10-18
11372143 Optical fingerprint sensor Paul Wickboldt, Patrick Worfolk, Steven Molesa, Young Seen Lee, Richard A. Klenkler 2022-06-28
11137534 Systems and methods for optical imaging based on diffraction gratings Pascale El Kallassi, Marek Mienko 2021-10-05 $30,437,000
10936840 Optical sensor with angled reflectors Marek Mienko, Arash Akhavan Fomani 2021-03-02
10891460 Systems and methods for optical sensing with angled filters Guozhong Shen, Richard A. Klenkler, Paul Wickboldt, Young Seen Lee, Bob Lee Mackey +5 more 2021-01-12
10845920 Systems and methods for injecting light into cover glass Paul Wickboldt, Marek Mienko, Pascale El Kallassi 2020-11-24
10796128 Optical sensor with ambient light filter Arash Akhavan Fomani, Marek Mienko, Richard A. Klenkler, Robert J. Gove, Guozhong Shen +4 more 2020-10-06
10796123 Systems and methods for optical sensing using point-based illumination Arash Akhavan Fomani, Marek Mienko, Bob Lee Mackey, Guozhong Shen 2020-10-06
10719683 Hybrid optical and capacitive sensor Jeffrey S. Lillie, Mark Pude, Eric Bohannon, Eric Moule, Erik Jonathon Thompson +1 more 2020-07-21
10705272 Optical fingerprint sensor Paul Wickboldt, Patrick Worfolk, Steven Molesa, Young Seen Lee, Richard A. Klenkler 2020-07-07
10664676 Systems and methods for reducing unwanted reflections in display systems incorporating an under display biometric sensor Bob Lee Mackey, Erik Jonathon Thompson, Arash Akhavan Fomani, Marek Mienko 2020-05-26
10572707 Transparent fingerprint sensor pattern Guozhong Shen, Yongqian Tang, Jim Aroyan, Bob Lee Mackey 2020-02-25 $3,587,000
10540027 Force sensing in a touch display Pascale El Kallassi, Do Hee Kim, Richard R. Schediwy 2020-01-21 $6,983,000
10430633 Pixel architecture and driving scheme for biometric sensing Kirk Hargreaves, Arash Akhavan Fomani 2019-10-01 $6,819,000
10380395 Optical sensor with angled reflectors Marek Mienko, Arash Akhavan Fomani 2019-08-13 $1,616,000
10325131 Active matrix capacitive fingerprint sensor for display integration based on charge sensing by a 2-TFT pixel architecture Arash Akhavan Fomani 2019-06-18 $3,423,000
10303919 Display integrated optical fingerprint sensor with angle limiting reflector Marek Mienko, Arash Akhavan Fomani, Jeffrey A. Small 2019-05-28 $10,323,000
10268884 Optical fingerprint sensor under a display Eric Jones, Paul Wickboldt, Young Seen Lee, Alvin Jee, Richard A. Klenkler +1 more 2019-04-23 $6,774,000
10216972 Pixel architecture and driving scheme for biometric sensing Arash Akhavan Fomani, Kirk Hargreaves 2019-02-26 $4,192,000
10181070 Low profile illumination in an optical fingerprint sensor Pascale El Kallassi, Young Seen Lee 2019-01-15 $3,917,000
10176355 Optical sensor for integration in a display Arash Akhavan Fomani, Marek Mienko, Paul Wickboldt 2019-01-08 $2,172,000
10169630 Optical sensor for integration over a display backplane Arash Akhavan Fomani, Marek Mienko, Paul Wickboldt 2019-01-01
10147757 Image sensor structures for fingerprint sensing Young Seen Lee, Paul Wickboldt, Robert J. Gove, Jason Goodelle 2018-12-04 $2,714,000
10102411 Hybrid optical and capacitive sensor Jeffrey S. Lillie, Mark Pude, Eric Bohannon, Eric Moule, Erik Jonathon Thompson +1 more 2018-10-16 $4,601,000
10095948 Modulation scheme for fingerprint sensing Kirk Hargreaves, Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Stephen L. Morein 2018-10-09 $2,882,000