Top Inventors at Cognex 2016
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carl W. Gerst, III | 5 |
| 2 | James A. Negro | 5 |
| 3 | Laurens Nunnink | 5 |
| #4 | Sateesha Nadabar | 3 |
| #5 | William Equitz | 3 |
| #6 | Aaron S. Wallack | 2 |
| #7 | Ali Zadeh | 2 |
| #8 | Earle B. Stokes | 2 |
| #9 | John McGarry | 2 |
| #10 | John P. Petry | 2 |
| #11 | Justin Testa | 2 |
| #12 | Kai Flügge | 2 |
| #13 | Xiangyun Ye | 2 |
| #14 | Adam Wagman | 1 |
| #15 | Alex Zatsman | 1 |
| #16 | Carroll McNeill Arbogast, Jr. | 1 |
| #17 | Cyril C. Marrion | 1 |
| #18 | David J. Michael | 1 |
| #19 | E. John McGarry | 1 |
| #20 | Gang Liu | 1 |
| #21 | Horst Theile | 1 |
| #22 | Ivan Bachelder | 1 |
| #23 | Jason Davis | 1 |
| #24 | James McClellan | 1 |
| #25 | Kim Marie Steiner | 1 |
| #26 | Lei Wang | 1 |
| #27 | Lifeng Liu | 1 |
| #28 | Lowell D. Jacobson | 1 |
| #29 | Matthew D. Engle | 1 |
| #30 | Masaaki Ikeda | 1 |
| #31 | Michael Haardt | 1 |
| #32 | Michael C. Moed | 1 |
| #33 | Nathaniel Bogan | 1 |
| #34 | Rene Delasauce | 1 |
| #35 | Richard Reuter | 1 |
| #36 | Robert Beaudoin | 1 |
| #37 | Robert E. Lloyd | 1 |
| #38 | Robert Tremblay | 1 |
| #39 | Savithri Vaidyanathan | 1 |
| #40 | Steven Patrick Shuman | 1 |
| #41 | Steven Whitman | 1 |
| #42 | Toshimitsu Motoyama | 1 |
| #43 | Venkat K. Gopalakrishnan | 1 |
| #44 | A. Piers N. Plummer | 1 |