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Gary Anglebrandt
- Top executive: Tyler Lowrey, CEO Patents in 2014: 13 Score: 135.50 Ovonyx comes from the patent-inducing mind of the late Stanford Ovshinsky, better known for his Auburn Hills-based company Energy Conversion Devices Inc. Ovonyx was a joint venture between ECD and Intel Corp., based on phase-change semiconductor memory (a type of random-access memory used in computers) invented by Ovshinsky. It was sold to Micron Technology Inc. in 2012 for $1.3 billion. Last year brought another round of