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Prince Castle
— 163 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#4,477
of
105,732
Top 5%
127
inventors
163
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2022
Bar chart with a peak of 22 patents in 2019.
peak 22
1980: 1 patents
1980
1981: 1 patents
1989: 1 patents
1993: 1 patents
1993
1994: 1 patents
1995: 1 patents
1999: 1 patents
1999
2000: 2 patents
2001: 1 patents
2002: 3 patents
2002
2003: 3 patents
2004: 1 patents
2005: 5 patents
2005
2006: 4 patents
2007: 2 patents
2008: 2 patents
2008
2009: 5 patents
2010: 8 patents
2011: 8 patents
2011
2012: 9 patents
2013: 9 patents
2014: 10 patents
2014
2015: 9 patents
2016: 4 patents
2017: 10 patents
2017
2018: 16 patents
2019: 22 patents
2020: 17 patents
2020
2021: 5 patents
2022: 1 patents
2022
Top Inventors at Prince Castle
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
127
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Loren Veltrop
79
2
Kyle Kestner
26
3
Christopher B. Lyons
22
3
Eric Larson
22
#5
Mark Fastabend
21
#5
Scott R. Hammac
21
#7
Charles B. Hartfelder
20
#8
Karl Heinze
18
#9
Frank Anthony Agnello
17
#10
Eugene S. Maslana
16
#11
Aleksandr Yazvin
14
#11
Christine S. Laub
14
#11
Richard Bauer
14
#14
Edward T. Eaton
13
#15
Dennis Malkowski
12
#15
Michael A. Graef
12
#17
Anthony Caringella
9
#17
Eloy Cerda
9
#17
Robert Long
9
#20
Brian J. Truesdale
8
#20
Calvin States Nelson
8
#20
Julia Padvoiskis
8
#20
Laurence A. Schoell
8
#20
Matthew Adomaitis
8
#20
Sean Patrick Forrest
8
#20
Zachary N. McCoy
8
#20
Zoran Ulicevic
8
#28
Donald L. Van Erden
7
#28
Jack Guasta
7
#28
Lawrence G. Banovez
7
#31
Don Van Erden
6
#31
Terry Chung
6
#33
Brian Mathews
5
#33
Dennis John Vaseloff
5
#33
Michael M. Maciejewski
5
#33
Richard L. Thorne
5
#37
Alexander Malevanets
4
#37
Brian Hee-Eun Lee
4
#37
Constantin Burtea
4
#37
Jeff Schroeder
4
#41
Chester F. Robards, Jr.
3
#41
David L. Kettman
3
#41
Jeffrey Schroeder
3
#41
Marcus Frio
3
#41
Mark Kurth
3
#41
Roberto Manzari
3
#41
Sajid A. Safvi
3
#41
Wayne Froehlich
3
#41
Wieslaw Tomczyk
3
#50
Aaron B. Eiger
2
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