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Level 3 Communications
— 132 Patents in 2021
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194
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132
Patents 2021
Top Inventors at Level 3 Communications
2021
Showing
1–50
of
194
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Christopher Newton
16
2
Kevin M. McBride
10
3
Charles I. Cook
10
#4
Steven M. Casey
7
#5
Michael K. Bugenhagen
7
#6
Laurence R. Lipstone
6
#7
William R. Power
6
#8
Thomas Schwengler
5
#9
Joelle T. Maslak
5
#10
Andrew Dugan
5
#11
Clyde David Cooper, III
4
#12
William Crowder
4
#13
Andrew Swart
4
#14
Kevin C. Johns
4
#15
Robert Smith
4
#16
Andrew J. Broadworth
4
#17
Joseph Lawrence
4
#18
William Gray
3
#19
Tom Funk
3
#20
Zubin Ingah
3
#21
James M. Adkins, III
3
#22
Stephen Opferman
3
#23
Sergey Yermakov
3
#24
Raoul Alcala
3
#25
John F. Waters, Jr.
3
#26
Bernie C. Lehman
3
#27
Michael J. Fargano
3
#28
William R. Walker
3
#29
Rene Grippo
3
#30
Shawn Marck
3
#31
David Fullagar
3
#32
Ronald A. Lewis
3
#33
Michael D. Sprenger
3
#34
Lewis Robert Varney
3
#35
Felipe Castro
3
#36
Todd J. Williamson
2
#37
Michael Benjamin
2
#38
Steven M. Rdzak
2
#39
Allen E. Dixon
2
#40
Shane Amante
2
#41
Eric Osborne
2
#42
Laurel Clark
2
#43
Paul K. McDonnell
2
#44
Richard D. Moore
2
#45
Skyler J. Bingham
2
#46
William Thomas Sella
2
#47
Gary Ratterree
2
#48
Salvador Paredes
2
#49
Steven D. Meyer
2
#50
William Lawrence O'Brien
2
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