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Elwha
Rank (2018):
#190
of 30,013
Top 1%
160 inventors
186
Patents 2018
Top Inventors at Elwha
2018
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Roderick A. Hyde
148
2
Lowell L. Wood, JR.
106
3
Jordin T. Kare
96
#4
Clarence T. Tegreene
73
#5
Muriel Y. Ishikawa
45
#6
Nathan P. Myhrvold
42
#7
Mark A. Malamud
38
#8
Richard T. Lord
37
#9
Robert W. Lord
37
#10
Elizabeth A. Sweeney
36
#11
Victoria Y.H. Wood
35
#12
Royce A. Levien
33
#13
Charles Whitmer
31
#14
William D. Duncan
29
#15
Tony S. Pan
28
#16
Eric C. Leuthardt
26
#17
Robert C. Petroski
26
#18
Edward K.Y. Jung
25
#19
Thomas A. Weaver
22
#20
Yaroslav A. Urzhumov
19
#21
Hon Wah Chin
18
#22
Jesse R. Cheatham, III
18
#23
Alistair K. Chan
17
#24
David B. Tuckerman
17
#25
William Gates
14
#26
David R. Smith
10
#27
Gary L. McKnight
10
#28
Tom Driscoll
9
#29
Christopher Charles Young
8
#30
Craig J. Mundie
8
#31
Dennis J. Rivet
8
#32
Neal Stephenson
7
#33
Paul Holman
7
#34
Bran Ferren
6
#35
Daniel Hawkins
6
#36
Elizabeth L. Schubert
6
#37
John D. Rinaldo, JR.
6
#38
Michael A. Smith
6
#39
Pablos Holman
6
#40
Robert Langer
6
#41
Stephen L. Malaska
6
#42
Jeffrey A. Bowers
5
#43
John Latham
5
#44
Kenneth G. Caldeira
5
#45
Matthew G. Dyor
5
#46
Michael H. Baym
5
#47
Peter L. Hagelstein
5
#48
Philip A. Eckhoff
5
#49
Russell J. Hannigan
5
#50
W. Daniel Hillis
5
#51
Desney S. Tan
4
#52
Edward S. Boyden
4
#53
Gregory J. Della Rocca
4
#54
Joshua S. Shimony
4
#55
Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera
4
#56
Max N. Mankin
4
#57
Melroy Machado
4
#58
Paul G. Allen
4
#59
Paul Duesterhoft
4
#60
Parag Jitendra Parikh
4
#61
Stephen H. Salter
4
#62
Terence Myckatyn
4
#63
3ric Johanson
3
#64
Alexander Remley Katko
3
#65
Brian Mark Deutsch
3
#66
Ehren Brav
3
#67
Eric James Black
3
#68
Eric D. Rudder
3
#69
Eun Young Hwang
3
#70
Guy S. Lipworth
3
#71
Harry Shum
3
#72
Jay Howard McCandless
3
#73
John L. Manferdelli
3
#74
John Marshall
3
#75
Kimberly D. A. Hallman
3
#76
Marc E. Davis
3
#77
Max R. Levchin
3
#78
Nicholas W. Touran
3
#79
Qi Lu
3
#80
Roger Zaldivar
3
#81
Roberto Zaldivar
3
#82
Satya Nadella
3
#83
Thomas M. McWilliams
3
#84
Wayne R. Kindsvogel
3
#85
Andrew Wilson
2
#86
Daniel Reed
2
#87
Douglas C. Burger
2
#88
Erez Lieberman Aiden
2
#89
Fred Sharifi
2
#90
Geoffrey F. Deane
2
#91
Gene Fein
2
#92
Jeannette M. Wing
2
#93
John Desmond Hunt
2
#94
John Brian Pendry
2
#95
Michael F. Koenig
2
#96
Michael Schnall-Levin
2
#97
Nathan Ingle Landy
2
#98
Nicholas Dykstra
2
#99
Peter N. Glaskowsky
2
#100
Phillip Rutschman
2