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Apple
Apple
Rank
(2016):
#9
of
28,424
Top 1%
3,100
inventors
2,624
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at Apple
2016
Showing
1–50
of
3,100
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Jonathan P. Ive
269
2
Duncan Robert Kerr
203
3
Bartley K. Andre
196
#4
Matthew Dean Rohrbach
195
#4
Richard P. Howarth
195
#6
Christopher J. Stringer
191
#7
Daniele De Iuliis
188
#8
Daniel J. Coster
187
#8
Eugene Antony Whang
187
#10
Jody Akana
185
#10
Rico Zörkendörfer
185
#12
M. Evans Hankey
181
#13
Peter Russell-Clarke
178
#14
Jeremy Bataillou
175
#15
Julian Hoenig
169
#16
Mikael Silvanto
150
#17
Shota Aoyagi
131
#18
Imran Chaudhri
118
#19
Benjamin Andrew Shaffer
108
#20
Anthony Michael Ashcroft
105
#21
Marc A. Newson
71
#22
Alan C. Dye
61
#23
Christopher Wilson
60
#24
Shin Nishibori
51
#25
Marcel van Os
46
#26
Stephen O. Lemay
44
#27
Chanaka G. Karunamuni
40
#28
Shih Chang Chang
34
#29
Eric Lance Wilson
33
#30
Freddy Anzures
31
#31
Christopher P. Foss
29
#32
Fletcher R. Rothkopf
28
#33
Tarik Tabet
27
#34
Bas Ording
26
#34
Li Su
26
#34
Scott A. Myers
26
#34
Steven P. Hotelling
26
#38
Gary Butcher
25
#38
Mattia Pascolini
25
#38
Robert W. Schlub
25
#38
Syed Aon Mujtaba
25
#42
Eyal Gurgi
24
#42
Wen Tong
24
#44
Wayne Carl Westerman
23
#45
John Z. Zhong
22
#45
Peiying Zhu
22
#47
Aurelio Guzmán
21
#48
Aram Lindahl
20
#48
Christopher D. Prest
20
#48
Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill
20
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