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Level 3 Communications
LC
Level 3 Communications
— 230 Patents in 2020
Rank
(2020):
#183
of
32,409
Top 1%
247
inventors
230
Patents 2020
Top Inventors at Level 3 Communications
2020
Showing
1–50
of
247
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Christopher Newton
29
2
Michael K. Bugenhagen
18
3
Charles I. Cook
17
#4
William Crowder
17
#5
Steven M. Casey
16
#6
Laurence R. Lipstone
14
#7
Thomas Schwengler
14
#8
Michael L. Elford
12
#9
Lewis Robert Varney
11
#10
Andrew Swart
11
#11
Thomas C. Barnett, JR.
10
#12
Adam C. Uzelac
10
#13
Michael D. Sprenger
9
#14
Zubin Ingah
8
#15
Kevin M. McBride
8
#16
Michael P. Winterrowd
7
#17
Joelle T. Maslak
7
#18
Felipe Castro
7
#19
Andrew J. Broadworth
7
#20
William R. Power
7
#21
Eric Osborne
7
#22
William Thomas Sella
6
#23
Stephen Opferman
5
#24
James Michael Sella
5
#25
Richard Dean Terpstra
5
#26
Dana A. Johnston
5
#27
Gregory Thomas Ellison
5
#28
William Hopkins
4
#29
Kevin C. Johns
4
#30
Darren James Behmlander
4
#31
Phil Carpenter
4
#32
Austin D. Ritchie
4
#33
Tom Funk
4
#34
Katie S. Feiman
4
#35
Sergey Yermakov
4
#36
Pete Joseph Caputo, II
4
#37
Claudia M. Combellas
4
#38
Michael F. Robles
3
#39
Skyler J. Bingham
3
#40
Brent W. Smith
3
#41
Ryan Korte
3
#42
Shawn Marck
3
#43
Travis Duane Ewert
3
#44
Pasha G. Mohammed
3
#45
Robert J. Morrill
3
#46
Lawrence W. Gowin
3
#47
Jin Wang
3
#48
Adam C. Uzelac
3
#49
Mayur Kudtarkar
3
#50
Ronald A. Lewis
3
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