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NVIDIA
NVIDIA
— 541 Patents in 2016
Rank
(2016):
#73
of
28,424
Top 1%
878
inventors
541
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at NVIDIA
2016
Showing
1–50
of
878
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Jeffrey A. Bolz
18
2
Eric B. Lum
16
3
Jerome F. Duluk, Jr.
15
#4
William J. Dally
14
#5
Ziyad S. Hakura
13
#6
Rui M. Bastos
10
#6
Yury Uralsky
10
#8
Dale L. Kirkland
9
#8
Henry Packard Moreton
9
#8
Jorn Nystad
9
#8
Patrick R. Brown
9
#12
Andrew David Tune
8
#13
Alexander Keller
7
#13
Andreas Due Engh-Halstvedt
7
#13
Brian Fahs
7
#13
Emmett M. Kilgariff
7
#13
Franck R. Diard
7
#13
Leilei Zhang
7
#13
Tero Tapani Karras
7
#20
Brian L. Smith
6
#20
Cedric Denis Robert Airaud
6
#20
John W. Poulton
6
#20
Luke Durant
6
#20
Luca Scalabrino
6
#20
Noam Bloch
6
#20
Samuli Matias Laine
6
#20
Timo Oskari Aila
6
#20
Vinod Grover
6
#29
Bruno De Smet
5
#29
David Patrick Luebke
5
#29
David Raymond Lutz
5
#29
Diego Crupnicoff
5
#29
Frode Heggelund
5
#29
Guillaume Schon
5
#29
Hwong-Kwo Lin
5
#29
Ilyas Elkin
5
#29
Lacky V. Shah
5
#29
Mark J. Kilgard
5
#29
Michael Kagan
5
#29
Neil Burgess
5
#29
Olivier Giroux
5
#29
Richard Roy Grisenthwaite
5
#29
Shuang Xu
5
#29
Steven James Heinrich
5
#29
Thomas Christopher Grocutt
5
#29
Tyson J. Bergland
5
#29
William J. Perciballi
5
#48
Alexander L. Minkin
4
#48
Alexey Panteleev
4
#48
Brucek Kurdo Khailany
4
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