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Level 3 Communications
LC
Level 3 Communications
— 170 Patents in 2017
Rank
(2017):
#219
of
29,883
Top 1%
200
inventors
170
Patents 2017
Top Inventors at Level 3 Communications
2017
Showing
1–50
of
200
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Christopher Newton
45
2
William Crowder
41
3
Laurence R. Lipstone
41
#4
Andrew Swart
38
#5
Lewis Robert Varney
37
#6
Michael K. Bugenhagen
18
#7
Charles I. Cook
9
#8
William Thomas Sella
7
#9
Thomas Schwengler
7
#10
Robert J. Morrill
6
#11
William L. Wiley
6
#12
Richard Dean Terpstra
6
#13
Steven M. Casey
6
#14
Michael L. Elford
5
#15
Andrew J. Broadworth
4
#16
Adam C. Uzelac
4
#17
Shekhar Gupta
4
#18
Pete Joseph Caputo, II
4
#19
John M. Heinz
4
#20
David Fullagar
4
#21
Kevin M. McBride
4
#22
John F. Waters, Jr.
3
#23
Gilman R. Stevens
3
#24
Andrew Dugan
3
#25
Benjamin K. Peterson
3
#26
John Butala
3
#27
William Gray
3
#28
Gregory Thomas Ellison
3
#29
Felipe Castro
3
#30
Salvador Paredes
3
#31
Joseph Lawrence
3
#32
Shawn Marck
2
#33
Lance LaBauve
2
#34
Amar Nath Ray
2
#35
Viswanath Seetharam
2
#36
Erik G. Urdang
2
#37
Brett Wentworth
2
#38
Robert Smith
2
#39
Joel C. Maslak
2
#40
Dana A. Johnston
2
#41
Rogier Ducloo
2
#42
Claudia M. Combellas
2
#43
Samid Ameer Hoda
2
#44
Taylor Fraley
2
#45
Diana L. Unser
2
#46
Peder Hans Engebretson
2
#47
Stephen K. Edwards
2
#48
Christopher Sayer
2
#49
Jamie C. Howarter
2
#50
Gary Ratterree
2
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