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Cree
— 2,307 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#368
of
106,120
Top 1%
639
inventors
2,307
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Cree
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
639
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Gerald H. Negley
222
2
Antony Paul Van De Ven
195
3
Paul Kenneth Pickard
151
#4
John Edmond
146
#5
Peter Scott Andrews
139
#6
Bernd Keller
135
#6
Christopher P. Hussell
135
#8
Kurt S. Wilcox
122
#9
David T. Emerson
119
#10
Michael John Bergmann
115
#11
James Ibbetson
101
#12
Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr.
100
#13
Anant Agarwal
84
#13
Eric Tarsa
84
#15
Matthew Donofrio
83
#16
Jesse Colin Reiherzer
79
#17
Sei-Hyung Ryu
78
#18
David B. Slater, Jr.
77
#19
James Michael Lay
76
#19
Qingchun Zhang
76
#21
Scott Sheppard
68
#22
Adam William Saxler
60
#23
Yifeng Wu
58
#24
John Williams Palmour
57
#24
Nathan Snell
57
#26
John Roberts
53
#27
Ban P. Loh
52
#28
Kevin Haberern
50
#29
Primit Parikh
47
#30
Hua-Shuang Kong
46
#31
Curt Progl
44
#32
Brian Kinnune
43
#33
Praneet Athalye
42
#34
Joseph P. Chobot
39
#35
George R. Brandes
38
#36
Brian T. Collins
34
#36
Mark Edmond
34
#36
Michael James Harris
34
#36
Umesh Mishra
34
#40
Helmut Hagleitner
33
#40
Lin Cheng
33
#40
Mrinal K. Das
33
#40
Saptharishi Sriram
33
#40
Theodore Lowes
33
#45
Bart P. Reier
32
#45
Valeri F. Tsvetkov
32
#47
Scott Allen
31
#48
Gary David Trott
29
#49
Joseph G. Clark
28
#49
Kathleen Marie Doverspike
28
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