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Tesla
Tesla
Rank
(2016):
#406
of
28,424
Top 2%
139
inventors
87
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at Tesla
2016
Showing
1–50
of
139
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Jack West
13
2
Zheng Xu
9
3
Franz Von Holzhausen
7
3
Jianming Fu
7
3
Jiunn Benjamin Heng
7
3
Scott Ira Kohn
7
3
Tyrus Hudson
7
#8
Asim Mumtaz
5
#8
Brian Atchley
5
#8
Emil Johansen
5
#8
Lesley Chisenga
5
#12
David Tadashi Imai
4
#12
Francisco LePort
4
#12
Hans-Christoph Haenlein
4
#12
N. Petter Winberg
4
#12
Sachin Shrimant Sawant
4
#17
Christopher J. Beitel
3
#17
Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez
3
#17
David Molina
3
#17
Gehan Anil Joseph Amaratunga
3
#17
Mark Daniel Goldman
3
#22
Andrew John Matthews
2
#22
Bernard Lee
2
#22
Bobby Yang
2
#22
Brian Stuart Boggs
2
#22
Chunguang Xiao
2
#22
Clay Kishiyama
2
#22
Damien Scott
2
#22
Dongzhi Yan
2
#22
Edwin M. Pearce, Jr.
2
#22
Eric Carlson
2
#22
Garret Bautista
2
#22
Jiansheng Zhou
2
#22
Joseph Michael Darragh
2
#22
Joshua Willard Ferguson
2
#22
Joonas Vartola
2
#22
John R. West
2
#22
Martin Seery
2
#22
Michael J. Baldwin
2
#22
Michael Colin Begg
2
#22
Paul Randal Engle, Jr.
2
#22
Paul Garrity
2
#22
Patrick Grimmel
2
#22
Radu Muntean
2
#22
Robert T. Trujillo
2
#22
Sandeep Narla
2
#22
Salomon Trujillo
2
#22
Steven C. Beese
2
#22
Timothy L. Sheldon
2
#22
Ty Hudson
2
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