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— 205 Patents in 2017
Rank
(2017):
#180
of
29,883
Top 1%
311
inventors
205
Patents 2017
Top Inventors at PayPal
2017
Showing
1–50
of
311
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
John Hastings Granbery
8
1
Michael Charles Todasco
8
3
German Scipioni
6
#4
Max Edward Metral
5
#4
Neelakantan Sundaresan
5
#6
Bjorn Markus Jakobsson
4
#6
Bryant Genepang Luk
4
#6
Carl Stone
4
#6
Christopher Diebold O'Toole
4
#6
David Edward Eramian
4
#6
John Wesley Graham
4
#6
Kamal Zamer
4
#6
Liran Tancman
4
#6
Michael Markzon
4
#6
Michael Voege
4
#6
Shlomi Boutnaru
4
#6
Upendra Mardikar
4
#6
Willy Huang
4
#19
Alon Cohen
3
#19
Anurag Bhardwaj
3
#19
Christopher C. Winslade
3
#19
Geoffrey W. Chatterton
3
#19
James D. Bennett
3
#19
Kent Griffin
3
#19
Kevin Laracey
3
#19
Lucy Ma Zhao
3
#19
Miguel Angel Escobedo
3
#19
Michelle Serrano
3
#19
Ray Tanaka
3
#19
Robert He
3
#19
Robinson Piramuthu
3
#19
Satish Govindarajan
3
#19
Scott Leahy
3
#19
Wei Di
3
#35
Akara Sucharitakul
2
#35
Allen P. Smith
2
#35
Alan Tien
2
#35
Andrew Millard Brown
2
#35
Ananya Das
2
#35
Belmer Perella Garcia Negrillo
2
#35
Chris Lalonde
2
#35
Colin M. Cunningham, III
2
#35
Cody Evol
2
#35
Egan Schultz
2
#35
Egan Schulz
2
#35
Eric J. Farraro
2
#35
Faran Najafi
2
#35
Frank Anthony Nuzzi
2
#35
Frank Schroth
2
#35
Geoffrey M. Palmer
2
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