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First Solar
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First Solar
— 48 Patents in 2016
Rank
(2016):
#733
of
28,333
Top 3%
109
inventors
48
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at First Solar
2016
Showing
1–50
of
109
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Rick C. Powell
8
2
Oleh Karpenko
6
2
Zhibo Zhao
6
#4
Benyamin Buller
5
#4
Markus Gloeckler
5
#4
Scott Daniel Feldman-Peabody
5
#7
Bastiaan Arie Korevaar
4
#7
Gang Xiong
4
#7
Pratima Addepalli
4
#7
Rui Shao
4
#11
Akhlesh Gupta
3
#11
David Hwang
3
#11
Donald Franklin Foust
3
#11
Imran Khan
3
#11
Jinbo Cao
3
#11
Jigish Trivedi
3
#11
John Hartelius
3
#11
Kevin Niebel
3
#11
Mark Jeffrey Pavol
3
#11
San Yu
3
#11
Sreenivas Jayaraman
3
#11
Stacy Ann Black
3
#23
Adam Fraser Halverson
2
#23
Arnold Allenic
2
#23
Daniel Damjanovic
2
#23
David Kahle
2
#23
Douglas G. Jensen
2
#23
Feng Liao
2
#23
Hongbo Cao
2
#23
Hongying Peng
2
#23
James Ernest Hinkle
2
#23
John Barden
2
#23
Joshua Conley
2
#23
Juan Carlos Rojo
2
#23
Laura Anne Clark
2
#23
Matthew J. Mattin
2
#23
Max William Reed
2
#23
Ming Lun Yu
2
#23
Pat Buehler
2
#23
Pawel Mrozek
2
#23
Robert Andrew Garber
2
#23
Roman Shuba
2
#23
Scott Jacoby
2
#23
Stephen P. Murphy
2
#23
Thomas Truman
2
#23
Wyatt Keith Metzger
2
#23
Yinghui Shan
2
#48
Aharon Yakimov
1
#48
Amir Bayati
1
#48
Anke Abken
1
1
2
3
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