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Rank (2005):
#90
of 17,328
Top 1%
452 inventors
184
Patents 2005
Top Inventors at HGST
2005
Showing 1–50 of 452 inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Hardayal Singh Gill
14
1
Futoshi Tomiyama
3
1
Takehiko Hamaguchi
3
1
Takao Horiguchi
3
2
Gordon James Smith
10
3
Richard Hsiao
7
3
Sri M. Sri-Jayantha
7
#4
Hidehiko Numasato
2
#4
Hideki Zaitsu
2
#4
Ichiro Tamai
2
#4
Kazuyoshi Hanada
2
#4
Nobuhiro Kuwamura
2
#4
Shinji Matsushita
2
#4
Shigeo Nakamura
2
#4
Takahiro Inoue
2
#4
Takushi Nishiya
2
#4
Takashi Yamaguchi
2
#4
Gentaro Nakamura
2
#4
Hiromitsu Masuda
2
#4
Junguo Xu
2
#4
Kazuhiro Nakamoto
2
#4
Kazuhisa Shishida
2
#4
Kei Yasuna
2
#4
Makoto Horisaki
2
#4
Mikio Tokuyama
2
#4
Takenori Atsumi
2
#4
Toshihiro Arisaka
2
#4
Toshihiko Shimizu
2
#4
Yoshikatsu Fujii
2
#4
Yoshiyuki Hirayama
2
#4
Yoshiaki Kawato
2
#4
Youichi Kusagaya
2
#5
Donald Ray Gillis
7
#5
Mary Frances Doerner
6
#7
Kai Tang
5
#7
Mustafa Pinarbasi
5
#7
Robert E. Fontana, Jr.
5
#10
Bruce David Terris
4
#10
Guohan Hu
4
#10
Hien Dang
4
#10
Huey-Ming Tzeng
4
#10
Jacey Robert Beaucage
4
#10
Jeffrey S. Lille
4
#10
Manfred Albrecht
4
#10
Mantle Man-Hon Yu
4
#10
Mike Suk
4
#10
Olav Hellwig
4
#10
Paul Arthur Goddu
4
#10
Xiaoping Bian
4
#22
Alexander M. Zeltser
3
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