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Digital Equipment
— 2,270 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#376
of
106,120
Top 1%
2,100
inventors
2,270
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Digital Equipment
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
2,100
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Michael Burrows
36
2
Richard L. Sites
32
3
Radia J. Perlman
28
#4
Michael Mallary
27
#5
Henry S. Yang
26
#6
Lih-Jyh Weng
25
#6
Richard F. Lary
25
#6
Tryggve Fossum
25
#9
William Hamburgen
24
#9
William Hawe
24
#11
Richard T. Witek
22
#12
David J. Sager
21
#12
Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan
21
#12
Simon C. Steely, Jr.
21
#15
Donald W. Smelser
20
#15
Stuart Morgan
20
#15
William F. Bruckert
20
#18
David N. Cutler
19
#18
Gilbert M. Wolrich
19
#20
Richard B. Gillett, Jr.
18
#21
Anthony G. Lauck
17
#21
Charles W. Kaufman
17
#21
Thomas D. Bissett
17
#24
Donald F. Hooper
16
#24
Douglas D. Williams
16
#24
John S. Fitch
16
#24
Robert Faranda
16
#24
Victor M. Samarov
16
#29
Butler W. Lampson
15
#29
Norman Paul Jouppi
15
#29
Ricky C. Hetherington
15
#29
Robert E. Stewart
15
#29
William D. Strecker
15
#34
Barry A. Maskas
14
#34
David Fenwick
14
#34
David B. Fite, Jr.
14
#34
Kurt M. Thaller
14
#34
Larry Seiler
14
#34
Margaret L. Hetfield
14
#34
Michael D. Sidman
14
#34
Paul M. Goodwin
14
#34
Robert C. Rose
14
#34
Robert J. Simcoe
14
#44
David A. Orbits
13
#44
David W. Thiel
13
#44
John E. Murray
13
#44
Michael Romm
13
#44
William B. Gist
13
#49
Ara Philipossian
12
#49
Barry A. Spinney
12
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