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Western Digital Technologies
Rank (2017):
#161
of 29,974
Top 1%
404 inventors
237
Patents 2017
Top Inventors at Western Digital Technologies
2017
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Zvonimir Z. Bandic
10
2
John E. Maroney
8
3
Steven T. Peng
8
#4
Robert Eugeniu Mateescu
7
#5
Toshiki Hirano
6
#6
Andrew Tomlin
5
#7
Darya Amin-Shahidi
5
#8
Kroum S. Stoev
5
#9
Ashwin Narasimha
4
#10
Dengtao Zhao
4
#11
James N. Malina
4
#12
Jordan Asher Katine
4
#13
Justin Jones
4
#14
Kimihiko Sudo
4
#15
Luiz M. Franca-Neto
4
#16
Mei-Man L. Syu
4
#17
Musa Ibrahim Kakish
4
#18
Patrick M. Braganca
4
#19
Seung-Hwan Song
4
#20
Thomas R. Albrecht
4
#21
Timothy J. McCabe
4
#22
Wojciech Szeremeta
4
#23
Yuta Onobu
4
#24
Albert H. Chen
3
#25
Ashish Singhai
3
#26
Christopher J. Squires
3
#27
Curtis H. Bruner
3
#28
Cyril Guyot
3
#29
Dale Charles Main
3
#30
Daniel R. Shepard
3
#31
Dean M. Jenkins
3
#32
Dejan Vucinic
3
#33
Haibo Li
3
#34
James Mac Freitag
3
#35
Jeffrey Chen
3
#36
John Contreras
3
#37
John Lynn Harting
3
#38
Kevin M. Takeuchi
3
#39
Mac D. Apodaca
3
#40
Michael Bell
3
#41
Naoshi Mizumoto
3
#42
Robert Fairchild
3
#43
Rodney N. Mullendore
3
#44
Sukumar Rajauria
3
#45
Takako Hayakawa
3
#46
Takashi Kono
3
#47
Thomas F. Meehan
3
#48
Timothy A. Ferris
3
#49
Vipin Ayanoor Vitikkate
3
#50
Yongke Sun
3
#51
Yuichi Arai
3
#52
Zheng Gao
3
#53
Abhilash Ravi Kashyap
2
#54
Alan C. Lam
2
#55
Albert John Wallash
2
#56
Anthony Dwayne Weathers
2
#57
Barry L. Klein
2
#58
Barry Cushing Stipe
2
#59
Brian S. Nihei
2
#60
Christopher Aiello
2
#61
Cherngye Hwang
2
#62
Charles A. Neumann
2
#63
Daniel Bedau
2
#64
David N. Steffen
2
#65
Diane L. Brown
2
#66
Dmitry Obukhov
2
#67
Edwin D. Barnes
2
#68
Erik J. Eklund
2
#69
Erhard Schreck
2
#70
Galvin T. Chia
2
#71
Gregory A. Vanderpol
2
#72
Guangming Lu
2
#73
Haining Liu
2
#74
Herman Chong-Han Yang
2
#75
Hideaki Tanaka
2
#76
Ho-Fan Kang
2
#77
Jaesoo Byoun
2
#78
Jeffery Robinson Childress
2
#79
Jeffrey S. Lille
2
#80
Jeffrey David Wilke
2
#81
Jing Booth
2
#82
Johnny A. Lam
2
#83
John P. Myers
2
#84
Keiichi Nagasaka
2
#85
Kenneth Alan Okin
2
#86
Kiran Gunnam
2
#87
Koichi Suzuki
2
#88
Masashige Sato
2
#89
Michael F. Klett
2
#90
Minghai Qin
2
#91
Mohammad Sarraf
2
#92
Mutsuro Ohta
2
#93
Naoaki Kanada
2
#94
Nathan Steven Obr
2
#95
Neil Leslie Robertson
2
#96
Nobumasa Nishiyama
2
#97
Paul Chen
2
#98
Phillip S. Haralson
2
#99
Qing Dai
2
#100
Qingbo Wang
2