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Viasat — 1,030 Patents

Rank (All Time): #837 of 105,732Top 1%
384 inventors
1,030 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 94 patents in 2013.peak 941994: 1 patents19941996: 1 patents1997: 1 patents1999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents2003: 3 patents2004: 2 patents20042005: 4 patents2006: 6 patents2007: 7 patents20072008: 11 patents2009: 14 patents2010: 30 patents20102011: 49 patents2012: 75 patents2013: 94 patents20132014: 53 patents2015: 55 patents2016: 46 patents20162017: 41 patents2018: 49 patents2019: 74 patents20192020: 81 patents2021: 87 patents2022: 57 patents20222023: 54 patents2024: 80 patents2025: 53 patents2025

Top Inventors at Viasat All Time

Showing 1–50 of 384 inventors

RankNamePatents
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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