Inventor · Burlington, VT, US

Jack R. Smith

49Patents
15h-index
48Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 6, 1973 → Jul 31, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4028884A Control apparatus for controlling the operation of a gas turbine inlet guide vane assembly and heat recovery steam generator for a steam turbine employed in a combined cycle electric power generating plant Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 57 Expired
US4445180A Plant unit master control for fossil fired boiler implemented with a digital computer Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 55 Expired
US4138019A Mounting device Human Necessities 52 Expired
US4195231A Combined cycle electric power plant having an improved digital/analog hybrid gas turbine control system Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 48 Expired
US3973391A Control apparatus for modulating the inlet guide vanes of a gas turbine employed in a combined cycle electric power generating plant as a function of load or inlet blade path temperature Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US4211995A Alarm and locking device to prevent theft of an article Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 34 Expired
US3974645A Control apparatus for matching the exhaust flow of a gas turbine employed in a combined cycle electric power generating plant to the requirements of a steam generator also employed therein Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US3978659A Bumpless transfer in shifting control command between the primary and backup control systems of a gas turbine power plant Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 29 Expired
US4160362A Gas turbine and combined cycle power plant having reduced emission of nitrogen oxide and improved coolant injection flow control system therefor Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 28 Expired
US6834353B2 Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of a processing integrated circuit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Expired
US4029952A Electric power plant having a multiple computer system for redundant control of turbine and steam generator operation Physics 25 Expired
US7065733B2 Method for modifying the behavior of a state machine Physics 22 Expired
US4201923A Combined cycle electric power plant and a gas turbine having improved megawatt load control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US8899620B1 Rollover protection structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US6253299A Virtual cache registers with selectable width for accommodating different precision data formats Physics 15 Expired
US4327294A Combined cycle electric power plant and a gas turbine having an improved overspeed protection system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Expired
USD267856S Beverage dispensing container General 13 Expired
US3975902A Local maintenance controller for gas turbine power plants having a primary control system Physics 8 Expired
US7134104B2 Method of selectively building redundant logic structures to improve fault tolerance Physics 7 Expired
US3943372A Combined cycle electric power plant and a gas turbine having an improved startup control especially useful in a backup control system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US6820254B2 Method and system for optimizing code using an optimizing coprocessor Physics 7 Expired
US8612815B2 Asynchronous circuit with an at-speed built-in self-test (BIST) architecture Physics 7 Active
US6578155B1 Data processing system with adjustable clocks for partitioned synchronous interfaces Physics 6 Expired
US8189723B2 Method, circuit, and design structure for capturing data across a pseudo-synchronous interface Electricity 6 Active
US3974643A Combined cycle electric power plant and a gas turbine having improved outlet temperature limit control Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 6 Expired

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