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Cree
— 228 Patents in 2017
Rank
(2017):
#162
of
29,970
Top 1%
226
inventors
228
Patents 2017
Top Inventors at Cree
2017
Showing
1–50
of
226
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Kurt S. Wilcox
26
2
Antony Paul Van De Ven
18
2
Paul Kenneth Pickard
18
#4
Bernd Keller
15
#5
Michael John Bergmann
14
#6
Eric Tarsa
12
#6
Nathan Snell
12
#6
Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr.
12
#9
Brian Kinnune
11
#9
Gerald H. Negley
11
#9
Joseph P. Chobot
11
#12
Christopher P. Hussell
10
#12
Daniel J. Pope
10
#12
John Edmond
10
#15
Anant Agarwal
9
#15
David T. Emerson
9
#15
James Michael Lay
9
#15
Jesse Colin Reiherzer
9
#15
John J. Trainor
9
#15
Qingchun Zhang
9
#21
Andrew Dan Bendtsen
8
#21
Benjamin A. Jacobson
8
#21
David Power
8
#21
James Ibbetson
8
#25
Curt Progl
7
#25
Helmut Hagleitner
7
#25
James McBryde
7
#25
Mario A. Castillo
7
#25
Matthew Donofrio
7
#25
Peter Scott Andrews
7
#25
Zongjie Yuan
7
#32
Bart P. Reier
6
#32
Everett Bradford
6
#32
John W. Durkee
6
#32
Matthew Deese
6
#36
Brian Carrigan
5
#36
David P. Goelz
5
#36
Gary David Trott
5
#36
Jeremy Sorenson
5
#36
John Williams Palmour
5
#36
John Roberts
5
#36
Lin Cheng
5
#36
Michael James Harris
5
#36
Praneet Athalye
5
#36
S. Scott Pratt
5
#36
Saptharishi Sriram
5
#36
Scott Sheppard
5
#36
Sei-Hyung Ryu
5
#36
Sung Chul Joo
5
#36
Theodore Lowes
5
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