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Interface
— 118 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#5,966
of
105,732
Top 6%
97
inventors
118
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2024
Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 1997.
peak 9
1993: 4 patents
1993
1994: 1 patents
1995: 5 patents
1996: 5 patents
1996
1997: 9 patents
1998: 5 patents
1999: 7 patents
1999
2000: 2 patents
2001: 6 patents
2003: 3 patents
2003
2004: 2 patents
2005: 4 patents
2006: 5 patents
2006
2007: 2 patents
2008: 4 patents
2009: 3 patents
2009
2010: 5 patents
2011: 2 patents
2012: 3 patents
2012
2013: 7 patents
2014: 3 patents
2015: 4 patents
2015
2016: 2 patents
2017: 3 patents
2018: 1 patents
2018
2019: 2 patents
2021: 4 patents
2022: 1 patents
2022
2023: 3 patents
2024: 1 patents
2024
Top Inventors at Interface
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
97
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
David D. Oakey
19
2
Connie D. Hensler
14
2
John P. Bradford
14
#4
Raymond A. Berard
13
#5
William Nathan Jones
11
#6
Graham A. Scott
10
#6
Keith N. Gray
10
#8
Sydney D. Daniel
9
#9
Claude E. Terry
8
#9
James Hobbs
8
#9
Josef J. Stupecky
8
#12
Daniel L. Price
6
#12
Stuart Jones
6
#12
Wayne M. Hamilton
6
#15
Daniel F. Pinholster, Jr.
5
#15
David K. Slosberg
5
#15
Joel Sheppard
5
#15
Robert H. McIntosh, Sr.
5
#15
William Oscar Ingram, III
5
#20
C. Edward Terry
4
#20
Carson Machell-Archer
4
#20
Chung-Hsien Zah
4
#20
Douglas E. Triestman
4
#20
Graeme Robert Ripley
4
#20
Horace Eddie Bradley, Jr.
4
#20
Lawrence J. Burrow
4
#20
LaVar Clegg
4
#28
Andrew Thompson
3
#28
Brock Palmer
3
#28
Eric Mabry
3
#28
Gilbert S. Nowell
3
#28
Harold F. Adams
3
#28
James W. Hadden
3
#28
James M. Woods
3
#28
Martin G. Hoskins
3
#28
Mark Terry
3
#28
Michael A. Howe
3
#28
Richard F. Caris
3
#28
Robert T. Fuge
3
#28
Susan F. Fezer
3
#41
Albin F. Turbak
2
#41
Andre Culpepper
2
#41
Craig Jay Cochran
2
#41
Edward C. Tibbals, Jr.
2
#41
James R. May
2
#41
Jerry C. Hall
2
#41
Jorge Del Angel
2
#41
Johannes Lieuwe Wever
2
#41
Lawrence W. Blakely
2
#41
Larry Mullinax
2
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