Top Inventors at Sumco 2016
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toshiaki Sudo | 7 |
| 2 | Toshiaki Ono | 5 |
| 3 | Hiroshi Kishi | 3 |
| #4 | Ken Kitahara | 3 |
| #5 | Takeshi Kadono | 3 |
| #6 | Takuma Yoshioka | 3 |
| #7 | Fumihiko Kimura | 2 |
| #8 | Jun Fujise | 2 |
| #9 | Kazunari Kurita | 2 |
| #10 | Keiichi Takanashi | 2 |
| #11 | Koichi Suzuki | 2 |
| #12 | Shinsuke Yamazaki | 2 |
| #13 | Takayuki Dohi | 2 |
| #14 | Takeshi Masuda | 2 |
| #15 | Akihiko Shimizu | 1 |
| #16 | Daizo Horie | 1 |
| #17 | Eriko Suzuki | 1 |
| #18 | Gou Uesono | 1 |
| #19 | Hiroto Fukushima | 1 |
| #20 | John F. Krueger | 1 |
| #21 | Kazuhisa Iwanaga | 1 |
| #22 | Kazuhisa Torigoe | 1 |
| #23 | Ken Hamada | 1 |
| #24 | Kei Matsumoto | 1 |
| #25 | Masayuki Ishibashi | 1 |
| #26 | Masato Sakai | 1 |
| #27 | Masayuki Shinagawa | 1 |
| #28 | Naoya NONAKA | 1 |
| #29 | Ryuji Ohno | 1 |
| #30 | Shinji Nakahara | 1 |
| #31 | Shinichi Ogata | 1 |
| #32 | Shigeru Okuuchi | 1 |
| #33 | Shigeru Umeno | 1 |
| #34 | Takashi Fujikawa | 1 |
| #35 | Tadashi Kawashima | 1 |
| #36 | Tomohiro Hashii | 1 |
| #37 | Tomohiro Horio | 1 |
| #38 | Tomonori Kawasaki | 1 |
| #39 | Tomonori Miura | 1 |
| #40 | Toshiyuki Tanaka | 1 |
| #41 | Wataru Ito | 1 |
| #42 | Yasuyuki Hashimoto | 1 |
| #43 | Yumi Hoshino | 1 |