Inventor · Seattle, WA, US

Michael D. Smith

154Patents
32h-index
170Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: May 25, 1973 → Nov 23, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6159100A Virtual reality game Human Necessities 401 Expired
US6049272A Automated data transmission link to law enforcement and security personnel Electricity 283 Expired
US7587749B2 Computer method and apparatus for managing data objects in a distributed context Electricity 228 Active
US8935798B1 Automatically enabling private browsing of a web page, and applications thereof Physics 203 Active
US6578078B1 Method for preserving referential integrity within web sites Physics 184 Expired
US6763496B1 Method for promoting contextual information to display pages containing hyperlinks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 164 Expired
US6633315B1 Context-based dynamic user interface elements Physics 119 Expired
US6209931A Multi-point door locking system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 98 Expired
US5200751A Digital to analog converter using a programmable logic array Physics 97 Expired
US4428052A Navigational aid autopilot Physics 93 Expired
US4428057A Electronic chart system Physics 89 Expired
US5657145A Modulation and coding for transmission using fluorescent tubes Electricity 85 Expired
US5819064A Hardware extraction technique for programmable reduced instruction set computers Physics 79 Expired
US6567104B1 Time-based dynamic user interface elements Physics 76 Expired
US5696956A Dynamically programmable reduced instruction set computer with programmable processor loading on program number field and program number register contents Physics 75 Expired
US7313824B1 Method for protecting digital content from unauthorized use by automatically and dynamically integrating a content-protection agent Physics 69 Expired
US5519309A Voltage to current converter with extended dynamic range Physics 58 Expired
US7078208B2 Thermostable reverse transcriptases and uses thereof Chemistry; Metallurgy 57 Expired
US5825211A Oversampled state machine for jitter tolerant pulse detection Electricity 47 Expired
US7136873B2 Dynamic filtering in a database system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US6002274A Oversampled state machine for jitter tolerant pulse detection Electricity 46 Expired
US4942593A Telecommunications interface with improved jitter reporting Electricity 45 Expired
US5787235A Fuzzy logic-based evidence fusion tool for network analysis Electricity 45 Expired
US6135511A Window locking system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Expired
US4504747A Input buffer circuit for receiving multiple level input voltages Electricity 38 Expired

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