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Don Smith — 13 Patents

ZIZilog: 7 patents #8 of 150Top 6%
RJRutgers, The State University Of New Jersey: 2 patents #371 of 1,498Top 25%
UNUnknown: 2 patents #12,644 of 83,584Top 20%
MIMitel: 1 patents #90 of 264Top 35%
OTOak Technology: 1 patents #87 of 112Top 80%
Salt Lake City, UT: #322 of 4,590 inventorsTop 8%
Utah: #1,488 of 19,430 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Don Smith has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Zilog. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in June 2010. Don Smith ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Don Smith in Salt Lake City, UT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1991.peak 31985: 1 patents19851989: 1 patents19891991: 3 patents19911992: 1 patents19921993: 3 patents19932000: 1 patents20002003: 1 patents20032006: 1 patents20062010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7730395 Virtual tags and the process of virtual tagging Tomasz Imielinski, Vince Sgro 2010-06-01
7055094 Virtual tags and the process of virtual tagging utilizing user feedback in transformation rules Tomasz Imielinski, Vince Sgro 2006-05-30
6633933 Controller for ATAPI mode operation and ATAPI driven universal serial bus mode operation and methods for making the same Ka Kit Ling, Neil H. MacLean, Jr., Alan Ng 2003-10-14
6167127 Telephone system using recorded messages to make outbound announcements Tom Gray 2000-12-26 $18,639,000
5222218 System with devices connected in sequence to receive information in a predetermined order 1993-06-22 $4,556,000
5220673 Device and method for programming critical hardware parameters Monte J. Dalrymple, Lois F. Brubaker 1993-06-15 $3,945,000
5193199 Device and method for programming critical hardware parameters Monte J. Dalrymple, Lois F. Brubaker 1993-03-09 $3,667,000
5153509 System for testing internal nodes in receive and transmit FIFO's Monte J. Dalrymple, Lois F. Brubaker 1992-10-06 $3,365,000
5032982 Device for timing interrupt acknowledge cycles Monte J. Dalrymple 1991-07-16 $1,327,000
5025412 Universal bus interface Monte J. Dalrymple, Phillip D. Verinsky 1991-06-18 $1,280,000
5012180 System for testing internal nodes Monte J. Dalrymple, Lois F. Brubaker 1991-04-30 $1,230,000
4815351 Apparatus for slant punching a plurality of elongate holes in a penetrable blank of material Shirley Smith 1989-03-28
4501757 Yeast and dough condition compositions Shirley Smith 1985-02-26