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Bell Telephone Laboratories
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Bell Telephone Laboratories
— 1,498 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#557
of
106,120
Top 1%
1,445
inventors
1,498
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Bell Telephone Laboratories
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
1,445
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Donald M. Genaro
27
2
John N. McGarvey
24
3
Paul A. Kohl
15
#4
Arun N. Netravali
14
#4
LeGrand G. Van Uitert
14
#6
Hyman J. Levinstein
12
#6
Sungho Jin
12
#8
Gordon E. Sylvester
11
#8
Shobha Singh
11
#10
Won-Tien Tsang
10
#11
Alfred Yi Cho
9
#11
Anthony Acampora
9
#11
John B. MacChesney
9
#11
Michael J. Gans
9
#11
Rodney C. Alferness
9
#11
William T. Silfvast
9
#17
Andrew H. Bobeck
8
#17
Daniel W. Tyler
8
#17
Donald E. Blahut
8
#17
Gerardo Beni
8
#17
Harry J. Leamy
8
#17
Obert R. Wood, II
8
#17
Peter W. Shackle
8
#17
Richard E. Howard
8
#17
Robert Lee Wallace
8
#17
Terence J. Nelson
8
#27
Adrian R. Hartman
7
#27
Ashok Sinha
7
#27
Dan Maydan
7
#27
Edwin Arthur Chandross
7
#27
Frederick W. Ostermayer, Jr.
7
#27
Frank C. Pirz
7
#27
Frederick Vratny
7
#27
Gabriel L. Miller
7
#27
Harold Seidel
7
#27
Ivan P. Kaminow
7
#27
James E. West
7
#27
John A. Copeland, III
7
#27
John T. Plewes
7
#27
Joseph F. Rizzo
7
#27
Larry A. Coldren
7
#27
Lawrence R. Rabiner
7
#27
Milton L. Embree
7
#27
Paul Shala Henry
7
#27
Richard D. Gitlin
7
#27
Stephen J. Brolin
7
#27
Walter J. Tomlinson, III
7
#48
Adam Heller
6
#48
Bertram Schwartz
6
#48
Cletus W. Wilkins, Jr.
6
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