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Cree — 265 Patents in 2016

Rank (2016): #129 of 28,424Top 1%
240 inventors
265 Patents 2016

Top Inventors at Cree 2016

Showing 1–50 of 240 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Antony Paul Van De Ven 35
2 Kurt S. Wilcox 31
3 Gerald H. Negley 30
3 Paul Kenneth Pickard 30
#5 James Michael Lay 18
#5 Praneet Athalye 18
#7 Bernd Keller 17
#8 Christopher P. Hussell 16
#9 Anant Agarwal 15
#10 Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr. 14
#11 Curt Progl 13
#12 John W. Durkee 12
#12 John Edmond 12
#12 Lin Cheng 12
#12 Peter Scott Andrews 12
#12 Sei-Hyung Ryu 12
#17 Bart P. Reier 11
#17 Matthew Donofrio 11
#19 Brian Kinnune 10
#19 John Williams Palmour 10
#19 Mark Edmond 10
#19 Qingchun Zhang 10
#23 Michael John Bergmann 9
#24 James Ibbetson 8
#25 Charles M. Swoboda 7
#25 Eric Tarsa 7
#25 Jesse Colin Reiherzer 7
#25 Peter E. Lopez 7
#25 Vipindas Pala 7
#30 Dong Lu 6
#30 John R. Rowlette, Jr. 6
#30 Nathan Snell 6
#30 Theodore Lowes 6
#34 Edward Robert Van Brunt 5
#34 Fabian Radulescu 5
#34 Mark Dixon 5
#34 Ronan P. Le Toquin 5
#34 Sarit Dhar 5
#34 Tao Tong 5
#34 Yifeng Wu 5
#34 Zongjie Yuan 5
#42 Benjamin A. Jacobson 4
#42 Brian T. Collins 4
#42 Christopher D. Strom 4
#42 Craig Raleigh 4
#42 David T. Emerson 4
#42 Daniel Jenner Lichtenwalner 4
#42 David Power 4
#42 Gary David Trott 4
#42 Jason Henning 4