Here are 10 standout engineers (listed with the company on the patent and a very recent LLM-related patent they’re inventors on):

• Noah Deutsch — OpenAI
  Inventor on US12039431B1 — Systems and methods for interacting with a multimodal machine learning model (granted Jul 16, 2024). Google Patents
• Benjamin Zweig — OpenAI
  
  Co-inventor on US12039431B1 — Systems and methods for interacting with a multimodal machine learning model (granted Jul 16, 2024)

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Top 10 engineers at companies behind the latest LLM-related patents

• Piyali Das — Senior Engineer — Milton, Ontario, Canada — LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/piyali-das-86626b151
• Ruku Roychowdhury — Senior Engineer — San Francisco, California, USA — LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/ruku-roychowdhury-bb0a591b
• Tharakeswararao Goru — Senior Engineer — Sunnyvale, California, USA — LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/tharakeswararao-goru-b56855158

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Identifying the top C++ contributors to trending AI repositories is challenging because the information is not readily available in a single, comprehensive list. GitHub, the primary platform for these repositories, provides a "contributors graph" for individual projects, but it only shows the top 100 contributors and doesn't aggregate data across different repositories. Furthermore, a contributor's ranking can fluctuate rapidly as new projects emerge and existing ones evolve. However, we can identify several prominent C++ contributors by examining the most starred and active open-source AI projects that heavily
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20 C++ contributors across trending AI repositories (as of 2025-09-20, UTC) Below are the highest-contributing GitHub users found in current trending AI repositories written in C++, ranked by their reported contributions within those repos.

• alexey-milovidov — OriginHubAl/MyScaleDB — 34 134
• alesapin — OriginHubAl/MyScaleDB — 7 668
• KochetovNicolai — OriginHubAl/MyScaleDB — 6 022
• kssenii — OriginHubAl/MyScaleDB — 5 618
• tavplubix — OriginHubAl/MyScaleDB — 4 089

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