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Progress Software
— 103 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#6,739
of
105,732
Top 7%
134
inventors
103
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2024.
peak 11
1999: 1 patents
1999
2001: 1 patents
2003: 1 patents
2004: 1 patents
2004
2006: 1 patents
2007: 2 patents
2008: 4 patents
2008
2009: 1 patents
2010: 3 patents
2011: 2 patents
2011
2012: 10 patents
2013: 3 patents
2014: 5 patents
2014
2015: 3 patents
2016: 6 patents
2017: 4 patents
2017
2018: 5 patents
2019: 7 patents
2020: 5 patents
2020
2021: 5 patents
2022: 10 patents
2023: 8 patents
2023
2024: 11 patents
2025: 4 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Progress Software
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
134
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Mohammed Sayeed Akthar
10
2
John Alan Hensley
8
3
Carl C. Hu
7
3
Frederick A. Tompkins, Jr.
7
#5
Benjamin Rousseau
6
#5
Steven Pittman
6
#5
Vinod Kumar Gandhe
6
#8
Robert Bradley
5
#9
Anthony Lavinio
4
#9
Broderick Messmer
4
#9
Caroline Esther Jesurum
4
#9
Daniel Levy
4
#9
Ian David Emmons
4
#9
Ivan Zhekov
4
#9
Justin Moore
4
#9
Marc Van Cappellen
4
#9
Philip Prudich
4
#9
Radoslav Kirilov
4
#9
Robert Fischer
4
#9
Sunil Jardosh
4
#9
Vivek Singhal
4
#22
Jeffery A. J. Sumner
3
#22
John Goodson
3
#22
Jonathan Robie
3
#22
Mark Biamonte
3
#22
Peter Coppens
3
#22
Ruban Phukan
3
#22
Shelley Chase
3
#22
Shyamantak Gautam
3
#22
Sunil Belgaonkar
3
#22
William Cullen
3
#32
Aaron L. White
2
#32
Ashutosh Mani
2
#32
Cheryl Conrad
2
#32
Daniel L. Weinreb
2
#32
Devesh Kumar Singh
2
#32
Deyan Petrov Yosifov
2
#32
Dirk Voet
2
#32
Gustav H Bjorklund
2
#32
Iliyan Panchev
2
#32
Ivan Osmak
2
#32
James D. Flavin
2
#32
Jaime Adam Meritt
2
#32
James Murphy
2
#32
Jeffrey Stamen
2
#32
John W. Bates
2
#32
Kumar Roshan
2
#32
Lilia Messechkova
2
#32
Martin Gebov
2
#32
Miroslav Shtilianov
2
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