Inventor
William R. Smith
Inventor
Mountain View, CA, US
Overview
Patents· 19 as inventor
Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.
G06Vprimary
G06VImage or video recognition or understanding14%
H03HImpedance networks, e.g. resonant circuits11%
H10WGeneric packages, interconnections, connectors or other constructional details of devices covered by class h1011%
G06FElectric digital data processing7%
H01LSemiconductor devices7%
LOCD17%
Y10TTechnical subjects covered by former us classification7%
A47LDomestic washing or cleaning4%
B64BLighter-than air aircraft4%
F27DDetails or accessories of furnaces, kilns, ovens or retorts, in so far as they are of kinds occurring in more than one kind of furnace4%
PatentTitleYear
10,468,360Integrated tunable filter architecture20199,673,155'Integrated tunable filter architecture'20179,438,196'Integrated tunable filter architecture'20168,813,140'Content retrieval for digital media recorder devices'20145,652,863'Graphical method of media partitioning on a hard disk'19975,452,224'Method of computing multi-conductor parasitic capacitances for VLSI circuits'19955,026,003'Lighter-than-air aircraft'19914,833,688'Two-phase flow quality measuring device'19894,792,462'Method of applying insulating material to windings in electrical machinery'19884,539,725'Apparatus for cleaning furnace walls'19854,538,169'Integrated alternator bridge heat sink'19854,473,888'Saw monolithic convolver using dispersive transducers'19844,403,340'OCR Matrix extractor'19834,337,455'Apparatus for processing video signals received from an optical scanner'19824,240,748'Hand-held optical character recognition wand with visual aligner'19804,200,951'Machine for cleaning surfaces'19804,180,799'Apparatus and method for recognizing characters'1979D0253593'Lamp cartridge for optical character recognition reader'1979D0251560'Hand-held optical character recognition reader'1979Career & activity timeline
Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.
1979–1983Patents assigned to CAERE CORP (6)· patent assignee history
1979–1983Based in Mountain View, CA, US· patent location history
1984–1995Based in Laguna Niguel, CA, US· patent location history
1985Patents assigned to ALUMINUM CO OF AMERICA (1)· patent assignee history
1989Patents assigned to COMBUSTION ENG (1)· patent assignee history
1997–2014Patents assigned to IBM (2)· patent assignee history
1997Based in Boca Raton, FL, US· patent location history
2014Based in Winchester, GB· patent location history
2016–2017Patents assigned to PEREGRINE SEMICONDUCTOR CORP (2)· patent assignee history
2016–2019Based in Arlington Heights, IL, US· patent location history
Inventor activity
Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.
Assignees
| Assignee | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| CAERE CORP | 6 | 1979–1983 |
| IBM | 2 | 1997–2014 |
| PEREGRINE SEMICONDUCTOR CORP | 2 | 2016–2017 |
| ALUMINUM CO OF AMERICA | 1 | 1985 |
| COMBUSTION ENG | 1 | 1989 |
Locations
| Location | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain View, California, US | 6 | 1979–1983 |
| Arlington Heights, Illinois, US | 3 | 2016–2019 |
| Laguna Niguel, California, US | 2 | 1984–1995 |
| Winchester, GB | 1 | 2014 |
| Boca Raton, Florida, US | 1 | 1997 |