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Foveon — 108 Patents

Rank (All Time): #6,675 of 105,917Top 7%
65 inventors
108 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2005.peak 161999: 6 patents19992000: 8 patents2001: 4 patents2002: 4 patents20022003: 8 patents2004: 12 patents2005: 16 patents20052006: 4 patents2007: 2 patents2008: 2 patents20082009: 3 patents2010: 5 patents2011: 3 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 4 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 5 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Top Inventors at Foveon All Time

Showing 1–50 of 65 inventors

RankNamePatents
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