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Stephen Michael Smith — 10 Patents

Verizon: 6 patents #935 of 6,238Top 15%
CGChrysler Group: 1 patents #1,051 of 2,641Top 40%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Intel: 1 patents #18,326 of 30,777Top 60%
BMBath & Body Works Brand Management: 1 patents #106 of 121Top 90%
Raleigh, NC: #841 of 6,378 inventorsTop 15%
North Carolina: #5,314 of 45,564 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Stephen Michael Smith has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Verizon. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in December 2020. Stephen Michael Smith ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Stephen Michael Smith in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2014.peak 52008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents20122014: 5 patents20142020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10872065 System for managing relational databases using XML objects Larry Arrington, Paul Flomer 2020-12-22
8924533 Method and system for providing automated fault isolation in a managed services network Frank Paul Adams, Jr., Sanjiv Purushottam Damle, Richard Brian Drescher, Joshua Jerome Morris, Michael R. Smith +2 more 2014-12-30 $25,526,000
8812649 Method and system for processing fault alarms and trouble tickets in a managed network services system Frank Paul Adams, Jr., Sanjiv Purushottam Damle, Richard Brian Drescher, Joshua Jerome Morris, Michael R. Smith +2 more 2014-08-19 $46,532,000
8738760 Method and system for providing automated data retrieval in support of fault isolation in a managed services network Frank Paul Adams, Jr., Sanjiv Purushottam Damle, Richard Brian Drescher, Joshua Jerome Morris, Michael R. Smith +2 more 2014-05-27 $42,639,000
8732516 Method and system for providing customer controlled notifications in a managed network services system Frank Paul Adams, Jr., Sanjiv Purushottam Damle, Richard Brian Drescher, Joshua Jerome Morris, Michael R. Smith +2 more 2014-05-20 $56,805,000
8676945 Method and system for processing fault alarms and maintenance events in a managed network services system Frank Paul Adams, Jr., Sanjiv Purushottam Damle, Richard Brian Drescher, Joshua Jerome Morris, Michael R. Smith +2 more 2014-03-18 $53,131,000
8326665 System and method for using a component business model to organize an enterprise David L. Cohn, Robert D. Dill, David Flaxer, George M. Galambos, Robert H. Guttman +11 more 2012-12-04 $3,998,000
8301019 Fragrance emanation system David Baraky, Robert Bussom, Todd Wambach, Harry Slatkin 2012-10-30
7922048 Integrated spare tire carrier Theron Shaw, Christopher Duke, Terence P. Grace, Michael R. Uhlmeyer, Stephen D. Logan +1 more 2011-04-12
7426654 Method and system for providing customer controlled notifications in a managed network services system Frank Paul Adams, Jr., Sanjiv Purushottam Damle, Richard Brian Drescher, Joshua Jerome Morris, Michael R. Smith +2 more 2008-09-16 $200,747,000