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Network Appliance
Rank (All Time):
#1585
of 106,127
Top 2%
447 inventors
542
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Network Appliance
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Steven R. Kleiman
35
2
John K. Edwards
33
3
Robert M. English
29
#4
Peter F. Corbett
24
#5
David Hitz
22
#6
Robert L. Fair
20
#7
Stephen L. Manley
20
#8
Scott Schoenthal
18
#9
Eric Hamilton
17
#10
Alan Rowe
17
#11
Mark Muhlestein
16
#12
Srinivasan Viswanathan
16
#13
Abhijeet P. Gole
16
#14
Byron Rakitzis
15
#15
James Lau
15
#16
Michael Malcolm
15
#17
Naveen Bali
15
#18
Raymond C. Chen
15
#19
Atul Goel
15
#20
Blake H. Lewis
14
#21
Kayuri Patel
14
#22
Rajesh Sundaram
14
#23
Zoltan Zansky
14
#24
Konstantinos Roussos
13
#25
Susan M. Coatney
13
#26
Jeffrey S. Kimmel
12
#27
Vijayan Rajan
12
#28
Douglas W. Coatney
11
#29
Douglas P. Doucette
11
#30
Gaurav Banga
11
#31
Stephen H. Strange
11
#32
Andy C. Kahn
11
#33
Jason A. Lango
10
#34
Arthur F. Lent
10
#35
Brad A. Reger
9
#36
David Grunwald
9
#37
Ashish Prakash
9
#38
Herman Lee
8
#39
James Leong
8
#40
Robert Lieh-Yuan Tsai
8
#41
Vijay R. Basani
8
#42
Bill Jacobsen
7
#43
James Hartwell Holl, II
7
#44
John A. Scott
7
#45
Mark Smith
7
#46
Michael L. Federwisch
7
#47
Mohan Srinivasan
7
#48
Samuel M. Cramer
7
#49
Steven H. Rodrigues
7
#50
Vitaly Revsin
7
#51
David Baik
6
#52
David Brittain Bolen
6
#53
Donald Alvin Trimmer
6
#54
George Totolos, Jr.
6
#55
J. Christopher Wagner
6
#56
Krishna Mangipudi
6
#57
Paul Eastham
6
#58
Paul Yuedong Mu
6
#59
R. Guy Lauterbach
6
#60
Richard P. Jernigan, IV
6
#61
Shane S. Owara
6
#62
Allen Kilbourne
6
#63
Anthony F. Aiello
6
#64
Azer Bestavros
5
#65
Domenic J. LaRosa
5
#66
Kiyoshi Komatsu
5
#67
Kumar Gajjar
5
#68
Leroy R. Karge
5
#69
Lynne M. Murach
5
#70
Mark E. Crovella
5
#71
Nitin Muppalaneni
5
#72
Radek Aster
5
#73
Richard Meyer
5
#74
Sandeep Yadav
5
#75
William McGovern
5
#76
Yinfung Fong
5
#77
Brian Pawlowski
4
#78
Chan Ng
4
#79
Christopher Wagner
4
#80
Darrell Suggs
4
#81
David Willheim
4
#82
Himanshu Aggarwal
4
#83
Hugo Patterson
4
#84
Loellyn Cassell
4
#85
Michael L. Kazar
4
#86
Naresh Patel
4
#87
Ray Chen
4
#88
Rahim Ibrahim
4
#89
Rimas Svarcas
4
#90
Sean O'Malley
4
#91
Steven J. Valin
4
#92
Steven S. Watanabe
4
#93
Thomas Holland
4
#94
Timothy J. Thompson
4
#95
Yasuhiro Endo
4
#96
Alexander M. Pass
4
#97
Bruce Leverett
3
#98
Brian Parkison
3
#99
Brian Quirion
3
#100
Chih-Yi Chen
3