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Norfolk Southern
Rank (All Time):
#17800
of 106,127
Top 20%
60 inventors
36
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Norfolk Southern
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Patrick E. Keister
4
2
Robert S. Runyon
4
3
Daniel W. Plonk
3
#4
Derick Vander Klippe
3
#5
Donald R. Faulkner
3
#6
Evan Thomas Gebhardt
3
#7
Gerhard A. Thelen
3
#8
Gibson V Barbee
3
#9
Gongli Duan
3
#10
Greg Temple
3
#11
Ilya A. Lavrik
3
#12
Mahbod Amouie
3
#13
Wei Liu
3
#14
William B. Thompson
3
#15
Bruce E. Backus
2
#16
Charles W. Murray
2
#17
Eric C. Martin
2
#18
Hayden W. Newell
2
#19
Jeff M. Cutright
2
#20
Mayuresh Manoj Sardesai
2
#21
Michael E. Vawter
2
#22
Myles Grayson Akin
2
#23
Philip D. Bissette
2
#24
Tianchen Wang
2
#25
Bruce Alexander Carpenter
1
#26
Charles S. Christy
1
#27
Charles W. Yopp
1
#28
David L. McCubbrey
1
#29
David Frederick Thurston
1
#30
Dennis Quinn
1
#31
Don Robert Browning
1
#32
Donald Dietrich Graab
1
#33
Dustin Lange
1
#34
Gary A. Obenchain
1
#35
Gregory Lowe
1
#36
James Darren Rhodes
1
#37
James R Snavely
1
#38
John Blanchfield
1
#39
Jonathan Collins
1
#40
Joseph E. Samson
1
#41
Joe David Sanders
1
#42
Lester Witter
1
#43
Mabby Nicholas Amouie
1
#44
Mark A. Clement
1
#45
Mike Vawter
1
#46
Morris L. Myers
1
#47
Nhut Doan
1
#48
Paul Kortesoja
1
#49
Quentin Holmes
1
#50
Richard Scott Hailey
1
#51
Robert G. Gannon
1
#52
Robert W. Ralph
1
#53
Robert Rendleman
1
#54
Stefano Rieppi
1
#55
Thomas P. Painter, Jr.
1
#56
Thomas Wessling
1
#57
Ingrid Crafford
1
#58
Jeremy Laskos
1
#59
Michael Gerard Allran
1
#60
Aaron L Lafon
1