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Cree
— 265 Patents in 2016
Rank
(2016):
#129
of
28,424
Top 1%
240
inventors
265
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at Cree
2016
Showing
1–50
of
240
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
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
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