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Bally Gaming
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Bally Gaming
— 1,259 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#659
of
105,732
Top 1%
691
inventors
1,259
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2021
Bar chart with a peak of 218 patents in 2016.
peak 218
1998: 1 patents
1998
1999: 2 patents
2000: 3 patents
2001: 5 patents
2001
2002: 1 patents
2004: 1 patents
2005: 2 patents
2005
2006: 2 patents
2007: 5 patents
2008: 24 patents
2008
2009: 17 patents
2010: 40 patents
2011: 50 patents
2011
2012: 89 patents
2013: 118 patents
2014: 108 patents
2014
2015: 143 patents
2016: 218 patents
2017: 181 patents
2017
2018: 116 patents
2019: 112 patents
2020: 20 patents
2020
2021: 1 patents
2021
Top Inventors at Bally Gaming
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
691
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Bryan M. Kelly
173
2
Robert A. Luciano, Jr.
97
3
Martin S. Lyons
76
#4
Mark B. Gagner
75
#5
Robert W. Crowder, Jr.
70
#6
Paul M. Lesley
62
#7
Larry J. Pacey
61
#8
Joel R. Jaffe
53
#9
Dennis Lockard
51
#10
Alfred Thomas
48
#10
Attila Grauzer
48
#10
Damon E. Gura
48
#13
Jeremy M. Hornik
44
#13
James Morrow
48
#15
Andrew C. Guinn
42
#16
Christian L. Castro
41
#16
Jeffrey L. Allen
41
#16
Jeffrey C. Tallcott
41
#19
Loren T. Nelson
40
#19
Matthew J. Ward
40
#19
Robert J. Glenn, II
40
#19
Timothy C. Loose
40
#23
Allon G. Englman
38
#23
Craig J. Sylla
38
#23
Jamie W. Vann
38
#26
Dion K. Aoki
36
#27
Stephen Patton
35
#28
John G. Kroeckel
34
#29
Paul K. Scheper
31
#29
Peter R. Anderson
31
#29
Pravinkumar Patel
31
#32
Karl Wudtke
30
#33
Feraidoon Bourbour
29
#33
Warren R. White
30
#35
Gennady Soliterman
28
#35
Lawrence McAllister
28
#37
Anthony E. Green
27
#37
Richard B. Robbins
27
#37
Ryan Ruppert
27
#40
David B. Schultz
26
#40
Gordon Myers
35
#42
Matthew F. Kelly
25
#42
Michael W. Mastropietro
25
#44
Daniel P. Louie
24
#45
James B. Stasson
23
#45
Ronald R. Swanson
23
#45
Vernon Bernard
23
#48
Roger M. Snow
22
#48
Scott T. Hilbert
22
#48
Troy D. Nelson
22
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