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Visa
Rank (2019):
#171
of 32,327
Top 1%
367 inventors
244
Patents 2019
Top Inventors at Visa
2019
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Ayman Hammad
22
2
Mark Carlson
17
3
Patrick Faith
17
#4
Patrick Stan
13
#5
Thomas Purves
13
#6
Christian Aabye
11
#7
John F. Sheets
10
#8
Erick Wong
9
#9
Oleg Makhotin
9
#10
Theodore Harris
8
#11
Glenn Powell
7
#12
Selim Aissi
7
#13
Kiushan Pirzadeh
6
#14
Phillip Kumnick
6
#15
Soumendra Bhattacharya
6
#16
Ajit Gaddam
5
#17
Alan Joseph O'Regan
5
#18
Eric Le Saint
5
#19
Gyan Prakash
5
#20
Horatio Nelson Huxham
5
#21
Igor Karpenko
5
#22
Joseph Bjorn Ovick
5
#23
Julian Hua
5
#24
Kim R. Wagner
5
#25
Ryan Hagey
5
#26
Sanjeev Sharma
5
#27
Christopher Jones
4
#28
Gourab Basu
4
#29
Hao Ngo
4
#30
Joseph L. Spears
4
#31
Krishna Prasad Koganti
4
#32
Amy Poon Kar Sin
3
#33
Aparna Krishnan Girish
3
#34
Bartlomiej Piotr Prokop
3
#35
Benjamin Scott Boding
3
#36
Boris Taratine
3
#37
David William Wilson
3
#38
Diane C. Salmon
3
#39
Edward Katzin
3
#40
Eduardo Lopez
3
#41
Haochuan Zhou
3
#42
Hung-Tzaw Hu
3
#43
Ilker Celikyilmaz
3
#44
James Dimmick
3
#45
Jing Jin
3
#46
Kelvan Howard
3
#47
Kevin Weller
3
#48
Kwang Hyun Lim
3
#49
Leigh Amaro
3
#50
Lori D. Van Deloo
3
#51
Mark Carlson
3
#52
Marc Kekicheff
3
#53
Mark Nelsen
3
#54
Margaret Reid
3
#55
Margaret Szeto
3
#56
Michael Mori
3
#57
Parveen Bansal
3
#58
Patrick Wright
3
#59
Peng Zhao
3
#60
Prasanna L. Narayan
3
#61
Quan Wang
3
#62
Rasta A. Mansour
3
#63
Randall A. Snyder
3
#64
Rhidian John
3
#65
Robert Rutherford
3
#66
Stacy Pourfallah
3
#67
Vishwanath Shastry
3
#68
Yothin Chanyontpatanakul
3
#69
Abhishek Guglani
2
#70
Alan Johnson
2
#71
Alejandro Marroquin
2
#72
Basudeb Ghosh
2
#73
Barbara Patterson
2
#74
Ben Rewis
2
#75
Brendan Xavier Louis
2
#76
Brijendra Singh
2
#77
Brian Triplett
2
#78
Cedric Ronald Franz
2
#79
Charles L. Dennis
2
#80
Christian Flurscheim
2
#81
Chunxi Jiang
2
#82
Clint Florez
2
#83
Daniel Eisen Fineman
2
#84
Derek A. Vroom
2
#85
Edward W. Fordyce, III
2
#86
George Perry
2
#87
Hough Arie Van Wyk
2
#88
Jalpesh Chitalia
2
#89
James Gordon
2
#90
Jennifer Schulz
2
#91
Jeanette Yoder
2
#92
John Hamilton MacIlwaine
2
#93
Johan B. Rundberg
2
#94
John C. Wang
2
#95
Karthikeyan Palanisamy
2
#96
Kevin Carvalho
2
#97
Lawrence Chang
2
#98
Luba Goldberg
2
#99
Martin Enriquez
2
#100
Mahesh Joshi
2