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Level 3 Communications
LC
Level 3 Communications
— 135 Patents in 2016
Rank
(2016):
#263
of
28,333
Top 1%
206
inventors
135
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at Level 3 Communications
2016
Showing
1–50
of
206
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Michael K. Bugenhagen
14
2
Steven M. Casey
9
3
David Emerson
9
#4
Gary W. LaFreniere
8
#5
Charles I. Cook
6
#6
Christopher Newton
6
#7
Kelsyn D. S. Rooks
6
#8
Shekhar Gupta
6
#9
Yunas Nadiadi
5
#10
Mike A. Roberts
5
#11
Amar Nath Ray
5
#12
Paul Farnsworth
5
#13
Ajit Kumar Rao
5
#14
Felipe Castro
5
#15
Michael Goergen
5
#16
William Thomas Sella
5
#17
Robert J. Morrill
5
#18
David Fullagar
4
#19
Eric D. Gundersen
4
#20
Pete Joseph Caputo, II
4
#21
Jeffrey G. Koller
4
#22
Kevin M. McBride
4
#23
James Michael Sella
4
#24
Jeff Storey
4
#25
David Rondeau
4
#26
Ronnie S. Dhaliwal
4
#27
Maksim Yevmenkin
4
#28
Koushik Chatterjee
3
#29
Laurence R. Lipstone
3
#30
Allen E. Dixon
3
#31
Gregory Thomas Ellison
3
#32
William Crowder
3
#33
Richard Dean Terpstra
3
#34
Jeffrey M. Sweeney
3
#35
William L. Wiley
3
#36
Richard Cerami
3
#37
Adam C. Uzelac
3
#38
Sanjiv Kumar
3
#39
Clinton Smoyer
3
#40
Michael Morrissey
3
#41
Andrew J. Broadworth
3
#42
Michael L. Elford
2
#43
Jordan Alperin
2
#44
John M. Heinz
2
#45
Jade Kerr
2
#46
Jeff Stafford
2
#47
Stephen K. Edwards
2
#48
Binchao Chen
2
#49
Steven E. Kozisek
2
#50
Rene Grippo
2
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