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Foveon
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Foveon
— 108 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#6,675
of
105,917
Top 7%
65
inventors
108
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2022
Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2005.
peak 16
1999: 6 patents
1999
2000: 8 patents
2001: 4 patents
2002: 4 patents
2002
2003: 8 patents
2004: 12 patents
2005: 16 patents
2005
2006: 4 patents
2007: 2 patents
2008: 2 patents
2008
2009: 3 patents
2010: 5 patents
2011: 3 patents
2011
2012: 1 patents
2013: 4 patents
2014: 6 patents
2014
2015: 3 patents
2016: 2 patents
2017: 1 patents
2017
2018: 3 patents
2019: 5 patents
2020: 3 patents
2020
2021: 2 patents
2022: 1 patents
2022
Top Inventors at Foveon
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
65
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Richard B. Merrill
59
2
Richard F. Lyon
29
3
Rastislav Lukac
14
#4
Carver A. Mead
13
#4
Richard M. Turner
13
#6
Glenn J. Keller
10
#7
Shrinath Ramaswami
7
#8
Robert Steven Hannebauer
5
#8
Russel A. Martin
5
#10
Milton B. Dong
4
#10
Shri Ramaswami
4
#12
Kevin E. Brehmer
3
#12
Ken Doyle
3
#12
Min-hwa Chi
3
#12
Peter J. Manca
3
#12
Timothy M. Slagle
3
#17
Albert Bergemont
2
#17
Alireza Yasan
2
#17
Brian Jeffrey Galloway
2
#17
Florin Cutzu
2
#17
J. Orion Pritchard
2
#17
Jaroslav Hynecek
2
#17
Jonathan Yu
2
#17
Paul M. Hubel
2
#17
Peter J. Hopper
2
#17
Philipp Lindorfer
2
#17
Sanghoon Bae
2
#17
Shigemi Yamazaki
2
#17
Sumit Chawla
2
#17
Tatsuya Inui
2
#17
Tsung-Wen Lee
2
#32
Svetlana P. Piner
1
#32
Allen H. Rush
1
#32
Alex Wang
1
#32
Andrew Cole
1
#32
Domenick Montalbo Joseph
1
#32
Dwayne Campbell
1
#32
Edison Fong
1
#32
Hosam Haggag
1
#32
Ion Uehara
1
#32
James E. Tornes
1
#32
Jeffrey Orion Pritchard
1
#32
Jiashu Zhang
1
#32
Lukac Rastislav
1
#32
Mark O. Bagula
1
#32
Maxim Ershov
1
#32
Mark McDonald
1
#32
Michael Chen
1
#32
Michael Mian
1
#32
Mitchell C. Ruda
1
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