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University of Colorado
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University of Colorado
— 572 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#1,501
of
106,120
Top 2%
930
inventors
572
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at University of Colorado
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
930
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Richard D. Noble
22
2
Thomas R. Cech
20
3
Gregg B. Morin
17
3
Malik Y. Kahook
17
#5
Calvin B. Harley
16
#5
Joachim Lingner
16
#5
Karen B. Chapman
16
#5
Toru Nakamura
16
#5
William H. Andrews
16
#10
Christopher N. Bowman
14
#10
Marvin H. Caruthers
14
#12
Alan W. Weimer
13
#12
Edward R. Dowski, Jr.
13
#14
Carl A. Koval
12
#14
Dragan Maksimovic
12
#16
Garret Moddel
11
#16
Jacques I. Pankove
11
#16
Kristina M. Johnson
11
#16
Steven M. George
11
#20
Richard A. Schmidt
10
#20
Robert R. McLeod
10
#20
Theodore W. Randolph
10
#23
Douglas J. Dellinger
9
#23
Wade Thomas Cathey, Jr.
9
#25
Douglas J. McKnight
8
#25
Frank S. Barnes
8
#25
Jan P. Kraus
8
#28
Alex Franzusoff
7
#28
Blake J. Eliasson
7
#28
David M. Walba
7
#28
Donald Bellgrau
7
#28
Jeffrey W. Stansbury
7
#28
John Carpenter
7
#28
John M. Stewart
7
#28
Kristi Anseth
7
#28
Rafael Piestun
7
#28
Ryan T. Gill
7
#38
Dana Zachary Anderson
6
#38
Gary D. Sharp
6
#38
Geraldine F. Dellinger
6
#38
Glenn Sussman
6
#38
John L. Falconer
6
#38
Kenneth Douglas
6
#38
Lajos Gera
6
#38
Martha Karen Newell
6
#38
Naresh Mandava
6
#38
Noel A. Clark
6
#38
Victor M. Bright
6
#38
Zoltan Timar
6
#50
Andrew Garst
5
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