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Kla-Tencor
Rank (2016):
#211
of 28,424
Top 1%
329 inventors
166
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at Kla-Tencor
2016
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Yung-Ho Alex Chuang
21
2
Khurram Zafar
1
3
Peter Rose
1
#4
John Fielden
12
#5
Andrei V. Shchegrov
10
#6
Ilya Bezel
10
#7
Anatoly Shchemelinin
9
#8
Gildardo Delgado
9
#9
David L. Brown
7
#10
J. Joseph Armstrong
7
#11
Leonid Poslavsky
7
#12
Vladimir Dribinski
7
#13
Anant Chimmalgi
6
#14
Abdurrahman Sezginer
5
#15
Amnon Manassen
5
#16
Gregory Brady
5
#17
Grace Hsiu-Ling Chen
5
#18
Jaydeep Sinha
5
#19
Kevin Peterlinz
5
#20
Shankar Krishnan
5
#21
Thaddeus Gerard Dziura
5
#22
Alexander Kuznetsov
4
#23
Ashok Kulkarni
4
#24
Chien-Huei Chen
4
#25
David Y. Wang
4
#26
Earl Jensen
4
#27
John J. Hench
4
#28
Klaus Flock
4
#29
Lawrence D. Rotter
4
#30
Lisheng Gao
4
#31
Pradeep Vukkadala
4
#32
Stephen Biellak
4
#33
Stilian Ivanov Pandev
4
#34
Yujun Deng
4
#35
Andrew V. Hill
3
#36
Andrei Veldman
3
#37
Craig MacNaughton
3
#38
Daniel Kandel
3
#39
David Tien
3
#40
Frank Chilese
3
#41
Guorong V. Zhuang
3
#42
Hong Xiao
3
#43
Ivan Maleev
3
#44
Johannes D. de Veer
3
#45
John Gerling
3
#46
Kenong Wu
3
#47
Matthew Derstine
3
#48
Mark A. McCord
3
#49
Mark Wang
3
#50
Mehdi Vaez-Iravani
3
#51
Michael J. Van Riet
3
#52
Muzammil Arain
3
#53
Noam Sapiens
3
#54
Robert M. Danen
3
#55
Rudolf Brunner
3
#56
Rudy F. Garcia
3
#57
Sathish Veeraraghavan
3
#58
Xiaoxu Lu
3
#59
Xuefeng Liu
3
#60
Ajay Gupta
2
#61
Alexander N. Bykanov
2
#62
Amir Azordegan
2
#63
Anthony S. Geller
2
#64
Avi Abramov
2
#65
Barry Loevsky
2
#66
Bin-Ming Benjamin Tsai
2
#67
Carl Hess
2
#68
Christopher Sears
2
#69
Daniel Kavaldjiev
2
#70
Damon F. Kvamme
2
#71
Daniel J. Rader
2
#72
David W. Shortt
2
#73
Daniel Wack
2
#74
Daimian Wang
2
#75
Derrick Shaughnessy
2
#76
DongSub Choi
2
#77
Eugene Shifrin
2
#78
Francis Chilese
2
#79
Gary Fan
2
#80
Graham Michael Lynch
2
#81
Guoheng Zhao
2
#82
Guowu Zheng
2
#83
Haiguang Chen
2
#84
Ibrahim Abdulhalim
2
#85
In-Kyo Kim
2
#86
Jan Lauber
2
#87
James Manka
2
#88
Jamie M. Sullivan
2
#89
Joseph A. DiRegolo
2
#90
John R. Jordan
2
#91
John R. Torczynski
2
#92
Justin Dianhuan Liou
2
#93
Kai Cao
2
#94
Kevin O'Brien
2
#95
Kris Bhaskar
2
#96
Leonard E. Klebanoff
2
#97
Li-Ping Wang
2
#98
Lu Chen
2
#99
Mark Ghinovker
2
#100
Martin Plihal
2