Inventor · Vancouver, WA, US

David E. Smith

52Patents
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50Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 31, 1995 → Jan 29, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6672720B2 Printer with vacuum platen having movable belt providing selectable active area Performing Operations; Transporting 64 Expired
US7216968B2 Media electrostatic hold down and conductive heating assembly Performing Operations; Transporting 62 Expired
US8513433B2 Small molecule inhibitors of PARP activity Chemistry; Metallurgy 45 Active
US7458656B2 Measuring a pressure difference Performing Operations; Transporting 35 Active
US8154841B2 Current zero cross switching relay module using a voltage monitor Electricity 27 Active
US6563524B1 User-defined locally optimized color plane registration Physics 15 Expired
US6829456B2 Printer calibration system and method Physics 12 Expired
US7072596B2 Paper type input optimizing print quality Physics 11 Expired
US11372646B2 Exit history based branch prediction Physics 11 Active
US5985913A Tetracyclic compounds for enhancing biosynthesis of erythropoietin, compositions containing same, and methods of use thereof Human Necessities 9 Expired
US7517075B2 Method of determining power applied to component(s) of an image forming system Performing Operations; Transporting 8 Active
US5771470A Control of a power amplifier stage of a portable transceiver Electricity 7 Expired
US6788907B1 Apparatus and method for managing printing mode switching in a printing apparatus Physics 7 Expired
US7519837B2 Power controller Performing Operations; Transporting 7 Expired
US7793117B2 Method, apparatus and system for determining power supply to a load Performing Operations; Transporting 6 Active
US8625032B2 Video capture from multiple sources Electricity 5 Active
US11891861B2 Multi-mode pumped riser arrangement and methods Fixed Constructions 4 Active
US8772326B2 Methods and compositions of small molecule modulators of hepatocyte growth factor (scatter factor) activity Chemistry; Metallurgy 3 Active
US7142993B2 Determining a difference between a level of power to be supplied and an estimate Physics 3 Expired
US7008129B2 Capacitive mat control Performing Operations; Transporting 3 Expired
US7502075B1 Video processing subsystem architecture Electricity 2 Active
US7573206B2 Perceptible flickering reduction Electricity 2 Active
US7734430B2 Determining power Physics 2 Active
US8076988B2 Voltage and current signaling Electricity 2 Active
US11237968B2 Multicore shared cache operation engine Physics 2 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.