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Chevron
Chevron
— 8,868 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#90
of
106,120
Top 1%
4,788
inventors
8,868
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Chevron
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
4,788
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Max P. McDaniel
305
2
Qing Yang
255
3
Stephen J. Miller
250
#4
Stacey I. Zones
201
#5
John F. Knifton
161
#6
George P. Speranza
146
#7
Rodney L. Sung
131
#8
Saleh Elomari
129
#9
Dennis J. O'Rear
128
#10
John R. Sanderson
124
#11
Hye Kyung Cho Timken
117
#12
Kathy S. Clear
102
#13
Edward T. Marquis
99
#14
Richard E. Cherpeck
97
#15
Alexander E. Kuperman
93
#16
Dan Xie
91
#17
Jiang-Jen Lin
86
#18
Michael Cuscurida
80
#19
Benjamin J. Kaufman
78
#20
Eric D. Schwerdtfeger
75
#21
Scott E. Kufeld
74
#22
Mitri S. Najjar
73
#22
Youlu Yu
73
#24
John D. Hottovy
70
#24
Thomas V. Harris
70
#26
Robert L. Zimmerman
69
#27
Jeremy M. Praetorius
68
#28
John M. Rosenbaum
67
#29
Cong-Yan Chen
66
#30
Curtis B. Campbell
64
#30
Mark L. Hlavinka
64
#32
Tony R. Crain
63
#33
Elizabeth A. Benham
62
#33
Harold G. Waddill
62
#35
Joel L. Martin
61
#35
Varadarajan Dwarakanath
61
#37
Allen W. Burton
58
#38
Ashish M. Sukhadia
57
#38
Carlos A. Cruz
57
#38
Sven Ivar Hommeltoft
57
#41
Brooke L. Small
54
#41
Theodorus Ludovicus Michael Maesen
54
#43
Bruce Reynolds
53
#43
Robert H. Wollenberg
53
#45
William R. Ruhe, Jr.
52
#46
Wei-Yang Su
51
#47
Yongwoo Inn
50
#48
Errun Ding
49
#48
Pei-Shing E. Dai
49
#50
Jean-Louis Le Coent
48
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