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Ken Smith — 7 Patents

WEWelker Engineering: 3 patents #3 of 8Top 40%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
WKWittenstein Gmbh & Co. Kg: 1 patents #9 of 14Top 65%
AVAvaya: 1 patents #1,063 of 1,730Top 65%
Kellogg, ID: #2 of 17 inventorsTop 15%
Idaho: #1,702 of 8,810 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Ken Smith has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Welker Engineering. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in October 2016. Ken Smith ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Ken Smith in Kellogg, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1988.peak 21988: 2 patents19881989: 1 patents19891990: 1 patents19902004: 1 patents20042013: 1 patents20132016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9478929 Light bulb receptacles and light bulb sockets John U. Jansen 2016-10-25
8488587 Method and apparatus performing automatic resource distribution Robert S. Cooper, Russ Innes, Sergey A. Razin, Derek Sanders, Richard M. Ulmer +1 more 2013-07-16
6705817 Method and apparatus for loading an aircraft Manfred Wittenstein, Hans-Hermann Spohr 2004-03-16
4908567 Power supply system for an optical inspection apparatus Robert H. Welker 1990-03-13
4850669 Explosion-proof optical fiber connector for a light source Robert H. Welker 1989-07-25
4777567 Optical inspection apparatus Robert H. Welker 1988-10-11
4760232 Method of cladding a steel cylindrical core 1988-07-26