Inventor · Newbury Park, CA, US

Robert F. Smith

81Patents
23h-index
48Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 11, 1975 → May 18, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7555110B2 Methods and apparatus for providing expanded telecommunications service Electricity 174 Active
US7103167B2 Systems and methods for call screening Electricity 115 Expired
US7822188B1 Methods and apparatus for providing expanded telecommunications service Electricity 109 Active
US7852749B2 Methods and systems for routing telecommunications Electricity 90 Active
US5490849A Uniform-radiation caustic surface for photoablation Human Necessities 87 Expired
US5350374A Topography feedback control system for photoablation Human Necessities 81 Expired
US8447285B1 Methods and systems for managing telecommunications and for translating voice messages to text messages Electricity 63 Active
US6235493A Amino acid substituted-cresyl violet, synthetic fluorogenic substrates for the analysis of agents in individual in vivo cells or tissue Chemistry; Metallurgy 57 Expired
US5500776A Self-calibration for computer disk read/write offsets Physics 56 Expired
US5133708A Method for controlled corneal ablation Human Necessities 55 Expired
US9492187B2 Minimally invasive surgical assembly and methods Human Necessities 52 Active
US5235472A Apparatus for sensing operating shock on a disk drive Physics 52 Expired
US6666857B2 Integrated wavefront-directed topography-controlled photoablation Human Necessities 44 Expired
US8000455B1 Methods and systems for call processing Electricity 42 Active
US6491737B2 High-speed fabrication of highly uniform ultra-small metallic microspheres Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Expired
US6562099B2 High-speed fabrication of highly uniform metallic microspheres Electricity 40 Expired
USD259381S Pillow or the like General 28 Expired
US5608587A Method using magnetic disk servo pattern with buried identification patterns Physics 28 Expired
US8325901B1 Methods and apparatus for providing expanded telecommunications service Electricity 28 Active
US7636428B2 Systems and methods for call screening Electricity 27 Active
US7409048B2 Call processing and subscriber registration systems and methods Electricity 26 Active
US5327303A MR preamplifier having feedback loops for minimizing differential low frequency components and regulating common mode low frequency components of the preamplifier output signal Physics 25 Expired
US8834169B2 Method and apparatus for automating arm and grasping movement training for rehabilitation of patients with motor impairment Performing Operations; Transporting 23 Active
US6024449A High speed topography measurement of semi-diffuse objects Human Necessities 23 Expired
US4945311A Electronically variable equalizer Electricity 22 Expired

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