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Loral Aerospace
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Loral Aerospace
— 73 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#9,169
of
105,732
Top 9%
97
inventors
73
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2001
Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 1992.
peak 12
1991: 10 patents
1991
1992: 12 patents
1992
1993: 11 patents
1993
1994: 12 patents
1994
1995: 9 patents
1995
1996: 10 patents
1996
1997: 5 patents
1997
1998: 2 patents
1998
1999: 1 patents
1999
2001: 1 patents
2001
Top Inventors at Loral Aerospace
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
97
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Frank Chethik
7
2
Dennis L. Wilson
5
3
Geoffrey S. Waugh
3
3
Gregory A. Roberts
3
3
Jamaledin Izadian
3
3
Richard Lewis
3
#7
Brian T. Soderberg
2
#7
Carson Chen
2
#7
Dale D. Miller
2
#7
Garry Chinn
2
#7
Gary L. Wagner
2
#7
James L. Wayman
2
#7
John Kaufmann
2
#7
John M. McReynolds
2
#7
Julius Lange
2
#7
Ki Ho Baek
2
#7
Kurt J. Otto
2
#7
Mark A. Conboy
2
#7
Mark Kenworthy
2
#7
Michael Jacobson
2
#7
Robert C. Gardemal, Jr.
2
#7
Roy W. Latham
2
#7
Steven L. Andersen
2
#7
Timothy Philip Halloran
2
#25
Juergen P. Stampa
1
#25
Lawrence D. Voelz
1
#25
George W. Dinolt
1
#25
Daniel J. Kurfis
1
#25
Richard Y. Ichinose
1
#25
C. Web Westerman
1
#25
Anton G. Moldovan
1
#25
Andrew L. Spradley
1
#25
Barry A. Grasso
1
#25
Bryan Costello
1
#25
Bradley D. Wisneskie
1
#25
Byron Edwards
1
#25
Carl I. R. Blackwood
1
#25
Chris Hinkle
1
#25
Charles F. Raasch
1
#25
Clyde D. Ridgeway
1
#25
David E. Boden
1
#25
David W. Paglieroni
1
#25
David Paquette
1
#25
Donald G. Fulop
1
#25
Donald C. McClain
1
#25
Douglas Pheil
1
#25
Elbert L. Turner
1
#25
Frank M. Hubbard
1
#25
Francis J. Smith
1
#25
Frank Zimmermann
1
1
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