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Varco I/P
— 191 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#3,980
of
105,917
Top 4%
168
inventors
191
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2023
Bar chart with a peak of 35 patents in 2006.
peak 35
2002: 10 patents
2002
2003: 18 patents
2004: 21 patents
2004
2005: 29 patents
2006: 35 patents
2006
2007: 24 patents
2008: 15 patents
2008
2009: 16 patents
2010: 10 patents
2010
2011: 2 patents
2012: 4 patents
2012
2013: 2 patents
2014: 2 patents
2014
2016: 1 patents
2019: 1 patents
2019
2023: 1 patents
2023
Top Inventors at Varco I/P
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
168
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Kenneth W. Seyffert
36
2
Guy L. McClung, III
32
3
David Schulte
26
#4
Thomas C. Adams
21
#5
David W. Largent
15
#6
Charles N. Grichar
14
#6
George I. Boyadjieff
14
#8
Robert Folk
13
#8
Steven Lorne Folk
13
#10
George Alexander Burnett
12
#11
David Mason
11
#11
Hans van Rijzingen
11
#13
Frank Benjamin Springett
10
#14
Brian L. Eidem
9
#14
Clive Lam
9
#14
Daniel Juhasz
9
#17
Lawrence E. Wells
8
#18
Anton Krijnen
7
#18
Eric Scott
7
#18
Herman M. Kamphorst
7
#18
Neil Edward West
7
#18
Richard James Koch
7
#18
William L. Koederitz
7
#24
Gustaaf Louis van Wechem
6
#24
Jeffrey E. Walker
6
#24
John E. Goode
6
#24
Kerry Ward
6
#24
Vincent D. Leone
6
#29
Hans Joachim Dietrich Böttger
5
#29
James D. Brugman
5
#29
James Michael McIntosh
5
#29
Lyndon Stone
5
#29
Preston R. Fox
5
#29
Ronald W. Yater
5
#35
Brent Marsh
4
#35
David J. McWhorter
4
#35
David Wood
4
#35
Dean Allen Bennett
4
#35
Eric Trevor Ensley
4
#35
Gary Steven Strong
4
#35
Mallappa Guggari
4
#35
Manfred Worms
4
#35
Padmasiri Daya Seneviratne
4
#35
Robert Parker
4
#35
Troy D. Cain
4
#46
Cliff Swiontek
3
#46
Colin Crabb
3
#46
Hector M. Murray
3
#46
Howard Ervin
3
#46
Jefrey E. Walker
3
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