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Western Electric Company
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Western Electric Company
— 489 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#1,747
of
106,120
Top 2%
531
inventors
489
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Western Electric Company
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
531
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
William M. Chisholm
10
2
Fred P. Partus
9
3
Ching-Ping Wong
8
3
William C. Kent
8
#5
Donald M. Large
7
#5
William C. Vesperman
7
#7
Helmut Durr
6
#7
John R. Meal
6
#7
Max K. Wilson
6
#7
Michael T. Gursky
6
#7
Thomas J. Taylor
6
#7
William J. Fanning
6
#13
Donald Dinella
5
#13
Francis J. Fuchs, Jr.
5
#13
Fred J. Schneider
5
#13
Raymond G. Taylor
5
#13
William M. Beckenbaugh
5
#13
Willard E. Rapp
5
#19
Anderson F. Johnson, Jr.
4
#19
Brian Lynch
4
#19
Carroll D. Spainhour
4
#19
Edward L. Banks
4
#19
Edward J. March
4
#19
Frank H. Blitchington
4
#19
Fred J. Reinhard
4
#19
Gerald J. Martyniak
4
#19
George E. Mock
4
#19
George F. Piper
4
#19
James G. Wright, Jr.
4
#19
John N. McGarvey
4
#19
John J. Mottine, Jr.
4
#19
Kristen E. Bankes
4
#19
Min-Chung Jon
4
#19
Otto T. Masopust, Jr.
4
#19
Randy G. Schneider
4
#19
Vito Palazzo
4
#19
Wesley P. Townsend
4
#19
William A. Elliott
4
#19
William W. Pcihoda
4
#40
Alexander Coucoulas
3
#40
Anthony Tedeschi
3
#40
Benjamin C. Ellis, Jr.
3
#40
Bruce E. Truax
3
#40
Charles J. Aloisio, Jr.
3
#40
Daniel J. Shanefield
3
#40
Donald Ray Brown
3
#40
Donald M. Genaro
3
#40
Donald K. Sandmore
3
#40
Edwin C. Hardesty
3
#40
Eugene R. Cocco
3
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