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Bull Hn Information Systems
— 306 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#2,536
of
105,732
Top 3%
284
inventors
306
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2019
Bar chart with a peak of 29 patents in 1990.
peak 29
1989: 19 patents
1989
1990: 29 patents
1991: 17 patents
1992: 25 patents
1992
1993: 28 patents
1994: 26 patents
1995: 18 patents
1995
1996: 19 patents
1997: 21 patents
1998: 13 patents
1998
1999: 12 patents
2000: 13 patents
2001: 9 patents
2001
2002: 22 patents
2003: 9 patents
2004: 7 patents
2004
2005: 8 patents
2006: 3 patents
2007: 1 patents
2007
2008: 2 patents
2010: 1 patents
2014: 2 patents
2014
2017: 1 patents
2019: 1 patents
2019
Top Inventors at Bull Hn Information Systems
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
284
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
George J. Barlow
22
2
Russell W. Guenthner
21
3
James W. Keeley
20
#4
Charles P. Ryan
19
#4
William A. Shelly
19
#6
Richard A. Lemay
18
#7
David A. Egolf
16
#8
Ronald Lange
12
#8
Thomas F. Joyce
12
#10
Wayne R. Buzby
11
#11
Bruce A. Noyes
10
#11
Thomas S. Hirsch
10
#13
Clinton B. Eckard
9
#13
Jian-Kuo Shen
9
#13
Richard P. Kelly
9
#13
William E. Woods
9
#17
Chester M. Nibby, Jr.
8
#17
Thomas H. Howell
8
#19
David Scott Edwards
7
#19
Forouzan Golshani
7
#19
Kin C. Yu
7
#19
Richard C. Zelley
7
#19
Robert J. Russell
7
#19
Ronald W. Yoder
7
#25
Arthur Peters
6
#25
Lowell D. McCulley
6
#25
Raymond D. Bowden, III
6
#25
Robert V. Ledoux
6
#25
Sidney L. Andress
6
#25
Stefan R. Bohult
6
#25
Thomas O. Holtey
6
#32
Bruce E. Flocken
5
#32
David E. Cushing
5
#32
David W. Selway
5
#32
Donald C. Boothroyd
5
#32
Donald R. Kesner
5
#32
Donald J. Rathbun
5
#32
Edward F. Getson, Jr.
5
#32
Leonard Rabins
5
#32
Minoru Inoshita
5
#32
Richard S. Bianchi
5
#32
Steven A. Tague
5
#32
Victor M. Morganti
5
#32
William Lawrance
5
#45
David A. Bowman
4
#45
Daniel Carteau
4
#45
David Ian Howarth
4
#45
Donald P. Levine
4
#45
Donald L. Smith
4
#45
Elmer W. Carroll
4
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