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Level 3 Communications
LC
Level 3 Communications
— 152 Patents in 2018
Rank
(2018):
#240
of
29,927
Top 1%
206
inventors
152
Patents 2018
Top Inventors at Level 3 Communications
2018
Showing
1–50
of
206
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Charles I. Cook
14
2
Kevin M. McBride
12
3
Thomas Schwengler
11
#4
Christopher Newton
9
#5
Steven M. Casey
9
#6
Michael K. Bugenhagen
9
#7
Michael L. Elford
9
#8
William Thomas Sella
7
#9
Felipe Castro
7
#10
Robert J. Morrill
6
#11
Michael P. Winterrowd
5
#12
Pete Joseph Caputo, II
5
#13
Laurence R. Lipstone
5
#14
Thomas C. Barnett, JR.
5
#15
Andrew J. Broadworth
4
#16
Claudia M. Combellas
4
#17
James Michael Sella
4
#18
Shawn Marck
4
#19
Andrew Cook
4
#20
Ronnie S. Dhaliwal
4
#21
Andrew Swart
4
#22
Dana A. Johnston
4
#23
Robert Smith
4
#24
Sergey Yermakov
4
#25
Richard Dean Terpstra
4
#26
Adam C. Uzelac
3
#27
William R. Power
3
#28
Andrew Dugan
3
#29
Michael Morrissey
3
#30
John McManus
3
#31
Kevin Dean Wein
3
#32
John T. Pugaczewski
3
#33
David Rondeau
3
#34
David Emerson
3
#35
William Lawrence O'Brien
3
#36
John F. Waters, Jr.
3
#37
Jade Kerr
3
#38
Michael Goergen
3
#39
James Edward Borowicz
3
#40
Clinton Smoyer
3
#41
Michael J. Fargano
3
#42
William Crowder
3
#43
Gary W. LaFreniere
3
#44
Lewis Robert Varney
3
#45
Koushik Chatterjee
2
#46
Joelle T. Maslak
2
#47
Stephen Opferman
2
#48
William Hopkins
2
#49
Steve R. Wakumoto
2
#50
Madhukar Bandi
2
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