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Thomas W. Smith — 100 Patents

Xerox: 68 patents #135 of 8,622Top 2%
ECEastman Chemical: 8 patents #217 of 1,245Top 20%
Intel: 4 patents #8,538 of 30,777Top 30%
Eastman Kodak: 3 patents #2,892 of 8,114Top 40%
ASAmerican Sterilizer: 3 patents #85 of 349Top 25%
URUniversity Of Rochester: 2 patents #256 of 1,162Top 25%
MAMcneil Akron: 2 patents #1 of 8Top 15%
RTRochester Institute Of Technology: 2 patents #35 of 250Top 15%
SPSentinel Products: 1 patents #8 of 10Top 80%
Nokia: 1 patents #3,518 of 1,537Top 230%
UFUS Air Force: 1 patents #6,232 of 16,312Top 40%
MMMedical Materials: 1 patents #5 of 6Top 85%
EAE.I. Du Pont De Nemours And: 1 patents #10,693 of 12,129Top 90%
Illinois Tool Works: 1 patents #3,047 of 4,311Top 75%
Colmar, PA: #1 of 28 inventorsTop 4%
Pennsylvania: #153 of 74,527 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #14,510 of 4,157,543Top 1%
100 Patents All Time
Thomas W. Smith has been granted 100 US patents while listed as an inventor at Xerox. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in December 2025. Thomas W. Smith ranks #14,510 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.35%). Patent records list Thomas W. Smith in Colmar, PA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2003.peak 101981: 9 patents19811983: 1 patents1984: 3 patents1985: 2 patents19851986: 3 patents1987: 2 patents1990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents1992: 2 patents1993: 1 patents19931994: 5 patents1995: 3 patents1996: 3 patents19961998: 4 patents1999: 3 patents2000: 8 patents20002001: 7 patents2002: 2 patents2003: 10 patents20032004: 7 patents2005: 8 patents2006: 2 patents20062008: 1 patents2013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents2018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192021: 2 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 100 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12490272 Data synchronization techniques for a hybrid hardware accelerator and programmable processing array architecture Kannan Rajamani, Kameran Azadet, Kevin Kinney, Zoran Zivkovic 2025-12-02
12314216 Digital pre-distortion (DPD) adaptation using a hybrid hardware accelerator and programmable array architecture Zoran Zivkovic, Kameran Azadet, Kannan Rajamani 2025-05-27
12314217 Hybrid hardware accelerator and programmable array architecture Zoran Zivkovic, Kameran Azadet, Kannan Rajamani 2025-05-27
11126430 Vector processor for heterogeneous data streams Parakalan Venkataraghavan, Silpa Naidu Chirumavilla, Ravi Shekhar 2021-09-21 $30,488,000
11008536 Liquid product for stainless-steel corrosion remediation Nancy-Hope Elizabeth Kaiser, Kathleen A. Fix 2021-05-18
10299473 Low pH phenolic disinfectant without para tertiary amylphenol Christopher C. Heisig, Nancy-Hope Elizabeth Kaiser 2019-05-28
9939323 IR sensor with increased surface area 2018-04-10 $48,091,000
9060847 Optical hydrogel material with photosensitizer and method for modifying the refractive index Wayne H. Knox, Li Ding, Dharmendra Jani, Jeffrey G. Linhardt 2015-06-23
8901190 Optical hydrogel material with photosensitizer and method for modifying the refractive index Wayne H. Knox, Li Ding, Dharmendra Jani, Jeffrey G. Linhardt 2014-12-02
8455551 Broad spectrum disinfectant Christopher C. Heisig, Peter N. Karanja, Nancy-Hope Elizabeth Kaiser 2013-06-04
7319084 Catalysts containing N-pyrrolyl substituted nitrogen donors Leslie Shane Moody, Peter Borden Mackenzie, Christopher Moore Killian, Gino Georges Lavoie, James Allen Ponasik, Jr. +2 more 2008-01-15 $74,780,000
7112394 Thermosetting toner compositions, thermosetting developer compositions and methods for making and using the same 2006-09-26 $8,336,000
7074853 Photoprotective and lightfastness-enhancing siloxanes Kathleen M. McGrane 2006-07-11 $13,366,000
6972304 Aqueous ink compositions David J. Luca, Kathleen M. McGrane 2005-12-06 $4,778,000
6962949 Ink compositions containing quaternary-substituted lightfastness agents Kathleen M. McGrane 2005-11-08 $4,988,000
6946532 Catalysts containing per-ortho aryl substituted aryl or heteroaryl substituted nitrogen donors Leslie Shane Moody, Peter Borden Mackenzie, Christopher Moore Killian, Gino Georges Lavoie, James Allen Ponasik, Jr. +2 more 2005-09-20 $21,499,000
6918083 Tool for marking up electronic documents 2005-07-12
6906118 Phase change ink compositions H. Bruce Goodbrand, Daniel A. Foucher, Kathleen M. McGrane, Dina Popovic 2005-06-14 $5,900,000
6871945 Ink jet printing process Kathleen M. McGrane, David J. Luca, William W. Limburg 2005-03-29 $4,844,000
6861458 Photoprotective and lightfastness-enhancing siloxanes Kathleen M. McGrane 2005-03-01 $5,317,000
6844446 Catalysts containing per-ortho aryl substituted aryl or heteroaryl substituted nitrogen donors Leslie Shane Moody, Peter Borden Mackenzie, Christopher Moore Killian, Gino Georges Lavoie, James Allen Ponasik, Jr. +2 more 2005-01-18 $6,419,000
6825356 Catalysts containing N-pyrrolyl substituted nitrogen donors Leslie Shane Moody, Peter Borden Mackenzie, Christopher Moore Killian, Gino Georges Lavoie, James Allen Ponasik, Jr. +2 more 2004-11-30 $8,402,000
6815136 Liquid developers and processes thereof Weizhong Zhao, David H. Pan, William M. Prest, Jr., Samuel Kaplan 2004-11-09 $5,390,000
6803395 Photoprotective and lightfastness-enhancing siloxanes Kathleen M. McGrane 2004-10-12 $9,501,000
6777462 Ink compositions containing sodium tetraphenylboride Richard L. Colt, Kathleen M. McGrane, Hiep Ly 2004-08-17 $5,053,000