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Viasat
— 1,030 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#837
of
105,732
Top 1%
384
inventors
1,030
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 94 patents in 2013.
peak 94
1994: 1 patents
1994
1996: 1 patents
1997: 1 patents
1999: 1 patents
1999
2000: 1 patents
2003: 3 patents
2004: 2 patents
2004
2005: 4 patents
2006: 6 patents
2007: 7 patents
2007
2008: 11 patents
2009: 14 patents
2010: 30 patents
2010
2011: 49 patents
2012: 75 patents
2013: 94 patents
2013
2014: 53 patents
2015: 55 patents
2016: 46 patents
2016
2017: 41 patents
2018: 49 patents
2019: 74 patents
2019
2020: 81 patents
2021: 87 patents
2022: 57 patents
2022
2023: 54 patents
2024: 80 patents
2025: 53 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Viasat
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
384
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Mark J. Miller
128
2
Kenneth V. Buer
111
3
Donald L. Runyon
88
#4
Mark D. Dankberg
75
#5
William B. Sebastian
66
#6
Peter Lepeska
64
#7
Fan Mo
50
#8
Anil Agarwal
49
#9
William H. Thesling
48
#10
Brian T. Sleight
32
#11
Donald W. Becker
31
#12
Charles N. Pateros
29
#12
Girish Chandran
29
#14
Anders Jensen
27
#14
David W. Corman
27
#14
Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
27
#17
Michael Foxworthy
26
#18
Christopher J. Cronin
25
#18
Daniel M. Newman
25
#18
Sameep Dave
25
#21
David R. Saunders
23
#22
Aaron J. Mendelsohn
22
#22
David H. Irvine
22
#22
Jason Lau
22
#22
John Hai O'Neill
22
#26
Joshua G. Slater
21
#26
Rob Zienkewicz
21
#28
Mark Vanderaar
20
#29
James Esserman
19
#30
Kurt A. Zimmerman
18
#30
Michael R. Lyons
18
#32
Dominic Q. Nguyen
17
#32
Kristi Jaska
17
#32
Matthew D. Nimon
17
#32
Steven R. Hart
17
#32
William F. Sullivan
17
#37
Clifford K. Burdick
15
#37
John D. Voss
15
#37
Noel Lopez
15
#40
Dean Lawrence Cook
14
#40
Stefano Vaccaro
14
#42
Christopher J. Demange
13
#42
Corey Ryan Johnson
13
#42
Joshua J. Righetti
13
#42
Kevin Kimmich
13
#42
Meherwan Polad
13
#42
Thomas Duncan Lookabaugh
13
#48
Erwin C. Hudson
12
#48
James W. Maxwell
12
#48
Pawan Uberoy
12
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