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Elwha
Rank (2017):
#127
of 29,974
Top 1%
164 inventors
292
Patents 2017
Top Inventors at Elwha
2017
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Roderick A. Hyde
221
2
Lowell L. Wood, JR.
177
3
Jordin T. Kare
141
#4
Clarence T. Tegreene
133
#5
Nathan P. Myhrvold
90
#6
Robert W. Lord
81
#7
Richard T. Lord
80
#8
Mark A. Malamud
71
#9
Royce A. Levien
67
#10
Muriel Y. Ishikawa
58
#11
Tony S. Pan
53
#12
Edward K.Y. Jung
51
#13
Victoria Y.H. Wood
49
#14
Charles Whitmer
45
#15
William D. Duncan
37
#16
Eric C. Leuthardt
32
#17
David B. Tuckerman
30
#18
Alistair K. Chan
29
#19
Elizabeth A. Sweeney
29
#20
Robert C. Petroski
27
#21
Jesse R. Cheatham, III
25
#22
Yaroslav A. Urzhumov
22
#23
David R. Smith
21
#24
William Gates
20
#25
John D. Rinaldo, JR.
19
#26
Thomas A. Weaver
17
#27
Hon Wah Chin
15
#28
Gary L. McKnight
14
#29
Tom Driscoll
14
#30
Jeffrey A. Bowers
13
#31
Craig J. Mundie
11
#32
Michael H. Baym
11
#33
Daniel A. Gerrity
9
#34
Geoffrey F. Deane
9
#35
Philip A. Eckhoff
9
#36
Dennis J. Rivet
8
#37
Matthew G. Dyor
8
#38
Michael A. Smith
8
#39
Pablos Holman
8
#40
W. Daniel Hillis
8
#41
Wayne R. Kindsvogel
8
#42
Eric D. Rudder
7
#43
Andrew F. Glew
6
#44
Christopher Charles Young
6
#45
Desney S. Tan
6
#46
Kenneth G. Caldeira
6
#47
Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera
6
#48
Marc E. Davis
6
#49
Max N. Mankin
6
#50
Nathan Kundtz
6
#51
Russell J. Hannigan
6
#52
Bran Ferren
5
#53
Daniel Hawkins
5
#54
Edward S. Boyden
5
#55
Gleb M. Akselrod
5
#56
Maiken H. Mikkelsen
5
#57
Nicholas F. Pasch
5
#58
Peter L. Hagelstein
5
#59
Robert Langer
5
#60
Andrew Wilson
4
#61
Conor L. Myhrvold
4
#62
Eun Young Hwang
4
#63
Howard L. Davidson
4
#64
Jeannette M. Wing
4
#65
John Desmond Hunt
4
#66
John Latham
4
#67
John Brian Pendry
4
#68
Keith D. Rosema
4
#69
Kimberly D. A. Hallman
4
#70
Nathan Ingle Landy
4
#71
Neal Stephenson
4
#72
Paul G. Allen
4
#73
Xuedong Huang
4
#74
Brian Lee
3
#75
Daniel Reed
3
#76
Ehren Brav
3
#77
Erez Lieberman Aiden
3
#78
Gene Fein
3
#79
Gregory J. Della Rocca
3
#80
Harry Shum
3
#81
John L. Manferdelli
3
#82
Maxime Jean Jerome Bilet
3
#83
Marc Tremblay
3
#84
Nels R. Peterson
3
#85
Nicholas W. Touran
3
#86
Paul Duesterhoft
3
#87
Paul Holman
3
#88
Philip Lionel Barnes
3
#89
Qi Lu
3
#90
Satya Nadella
3
#91
Stephen L. Malaska
3
#92
Thomas J. Nugent, Jr.
3
#93
Aaron Fyke
2
#94
Anthony V. Smith
2
#95
David L. Brody
2
#96
David Schurig
2
#97
Douglas C. Burger
2
#98
Jaron Lanier
2
#99
Joseph R. Guerci
2
#100
Joshua S. Shimony
2