Top Inventors at Soraa Laser Diode 2016
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | James W. Raring | 18 |
| 2 | Melvin McLaurin | 9 |
| 3 | Po Shan Hsu | 7 |
| #4 | Alexander Sztein | 6 |
| #5 | Paul Rudy | 5 |
| #6 | Eric Goutain | 4 |
| #7 | Christiane Elsass | 3 |
| #8 | Dan Steigerwald | 2 |
| #9 | Hua Huang | 2 |
| #10 | Mathew C. Schmidt | 2 |
| #11 | Alexander Stzein | 1 |
| #12 | Benyamin Buller | 1 |
| #13 | Chendong Bai | 1 |
| #14 | Daniel F. Feezell | 1 |
| #15 | Nicholas J. Pfister | 1 |
| #16 | Pierre Lamond | 1 |
| #17 | Rajat Sharma | 1 |
| #18 | Richard T. Ogawa | 1 |
| #19 | Shuji Nakamura | 1 |
| #20 | Steven P. DenBaars | 1 |
| #21 | Thiago P. Melo | 1 |
| #22 | Vinod Khosla | 1 |
| #23 | Yu-Chia Chang | 1 |