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Robert A. Smith — 43 Patents

The Boeing: 25 patents #227 of 15,756Top 2%
Abbott: 3 patents #2,298 of 5,509Top 45%
TOTransitions Optical: 3 patents #49 of 143Top 35%
VBValent Biosciences: 2 patents #55 of 117Top 50%
CRCollaborative Research: 1 patents #12 of 22Top 55%
AMAmp: 1 patents #694 of 1,260Top 60%
PIPpg Industries: 1 patents #662 of 1,216Top 55%
QLQinetiq Limited: 1 patents #284 of 677Top 45%
Huntsville, AL: #14 of 1,894 inventorsTop 1%
Alabama: #57 of 10,951 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #69,380 of 4,157,543Top 2%
43 Patents All Time
Robert A. Smith has been granted 43 US patents while listed as an inventor at The Boeing. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in October 2023. Robert A. Smith ranks #69,380 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Robert A. Smith in Huntsville, AL, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 43 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11801946 System for sensing miniature gaps by inductive coupling John E. Rogers 2023-10-31 $57,853,000
11435176 Systems and methods for remote sensing of air gaps using a capacitor sensor array John E. Rogers, Ted R. Dabrowski, Timothy Doyle Messer, Corey McKinney Thacker, Michael Francis Mitchell 2022-09-06 $36,544,000
11249177 Transceiver assembly for detecting objects John E. Rogers 2022-02-15 $41,219,000
11216714 Electronically scannable device for radio-frequency identification John E. Rogers 2022-01-04 $40,920,000
11139589 Polarization uniqueness manipulation apparatus (PUMA) Ted R. Dabrowski 2021-10-05 $33,169,000
11074490 Intelligent fasteners James Alan Aske, Jake A. Wilson, Matthew Berden 2021-07-27 $46,800,000
10883954 Capacitive sensor array for structure damage detection or health assessment 2021-01-05 $90,406,000
10852229 Detection of compounds in material samples utilizing a transformation and subsequent decomposition Hong Hue Tat, Yuan-Jye Wu, David K. Mefford 2020-12-01 $75,661,000
10823616 Dual sensor and method for detection of an analyte gas David K. Mefford 2020-11-03 $39,923,000
10809186 Optical detection system and method David K. Mefford, John R. Lowell 2020-10-20 $45,267,000
10658736 Dominant H-field multiband loop antenna including passive mixer Ted R. Dabrowski, Larry L. Savage 2020-05-19 $34,272,000
10557787 Detection of compounds in material samples utilizing a transformation and subsequent decomposition Hong Hue Tat, Yuan-Jye Wu, David K. Mefford 2020-02-11 $60,618,000
10436734 Capacitive sensor array for structure damage detection or health assessment 2019-10-08 $43,415,000
10367253 Wideband bowtie antenna including passive mixer Ted R. Dabrowski 2019-07-30 $42,670,000
10200128 RF generation using tunable optical source David K. Mefford 2019-02-05 $49,929,000
9915754 Method and apparatus for detecting energetic materials David K. Mefford, John Dalton Williams 2018-03-13 $33,846,000
9134170 Optical detection of radiometric events David K. Mefford 2015-09-15 $19,814,000
8675990 Composite evaluation Luke Joseph Nelson 2014-03-18
8358403 Remote platform enhanced munitions detection Steve B. Pickard, David K. Mefford, Aaron Frost Markowitz 2013-01-22 $19,738,000
8319682 Method and apparatus for examining an object using electromagnetic millimeter-wave signal illumination 2012-11-27 $8,651,000
8299924 Method and apparatus for locating objects using radio frequency identification Sandor Holly 2012-10-30
8289201 Method and apparatus for using non-linear ground penetrating radar to detect objects located in the ground Sandor Holly, Nicholas Koumvakalis 2012-10-16 $13,383,000
8106810 Millimeter wave filters Sandor Holly, Nicholas Koumvakalis 2012-01-31 $15,021,000
7893862 Method and apparatus for using collimated and linearly polarized millimeter wave beams at Brewster's angle of incidence in ground penetrating radar to detect objects located in the ground Sandor Holly, Nicholas Koumvakalis 2011-02-22 $13,884,000
7570349 Cars/absorption dual mode electro-optic sensor Frederick R. Vachss 2009-08-04 $25,599,000