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Top Inventors 2016

Ranked by patent count

Showing 1–50 of 481,213 inventors

Rank Name Patents Location Company
1 Shunpei Yamazaki 412 Tokyo, MO Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
2 Kangguo Cheng 280 Schenectady, NY IBM
3 Jonathan P. Ive 269 San Francisco, CA Apple
#4 Roderick A. Hyde 244 Redmond, WA Intellectual Ventures
#5 Lowell L. Wood, JR. 216 Bellevue, WA The Invention Science Fund I
#6 Duncan Robert Kerr 203 San Francisco, CA Apple
#7 Bartley K. Andre 196 Los Gatos, CA Apple
#8 Richard P. Howarth 195 Lake Forest, IL Apple
#9 Matthew Dean Rohrbach 195 San Francisco, CA Apple
#10 Christopher J. Stringer 191 Woodside, CA Apple
#11 Daniele De Iuliis 188 San Francisco, CA Apple
#12 Eugene Antony Whang 187 San Francisco, CA Apple
#13 Daniel J. Coster 187 San Francisco, CA Apple
#14 Rico Zörkendörfer 185 San Francisco, CA Apple
#15 Jody Akana 185 Los Altos Hills, CA Apple
#16 Ali Khakifirooz 185 Brookline, MA IBM
#17 M. Evans Hankey 181 San Francisco, CA Apple
#18 Hanbyul Seo 180 Seoul, KR LG
#19 Peter Russell-Clarke 178 San Francisco, CA Apple
#20 Jeremy Bataillou 175 San Francisco, CA Apple
#21 Alexander Reznicek 175 Troy, NY IBM
#22 Julian Hoenig 169 San Francisco, CA Apple
#23 Michael K. Gschwind 164 Chappaqua, NY IBM
#24 Mikael Silvanto 150 San Francisco, CA Apple
#25 Jordin T. Kare 135 San Jose, CA Intellectual Ventures
#26 Clarence T. Tegreene 132 San Francisco, CA Intellectual Ventures
#27 Shota Aoyagi 131 San Francisco, CA Apple
#28 Marta Karczewicz 121 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#29 Imran Chaudhri 118 San Francisco, CA Apple
#30 Chen-Hua Yu 114 Hsinchu, TW TSMC
#31 Bruce B. Doris 110 Hartsdale, NY Globalfoundries
#32 Benjamin Andrew Shaffer 108 San Jose, CA Apple
#33 Kijun Kim 106 Seoul, KR LG
#34 Anthony Michael Ashcroft 105 San Francisco, CA Apple
#35 Joonkui Ahn 103 Seoul, KR LG
#36 Shou-Shan Fan 102 Beijing, CA Foxconn
#37 Peter Gaal 100 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#38 Jun Koyama 100 Yokohama, JP Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
#39 Woo-Seok Hwang 99 Seoul, KR Samsung
#40 Akihiko Nishio 99 Osaka, JP Panasonic
#41 Seunghee Han 97 San Jose, CA LG
#42 Wanshi Chen 96 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#43 Jean-Philippe Vasseur 96 Le Belin, AK Cisco
#44 Hakseong Kim 96 Seoul, KR LG
#45 Muriel Y. Ishikawa 95 Livermore, CA The Invention Science Fund I
#46 Jae Hoon Chung 95 Seoul, KR LG
#47 Satoshi Seo 93 Yokohama, JP Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
#48 Suckchel Yang 92 Seoul, KR LG
#49 Pouya Hashemi 92 Purchase, NY IBM
#50 Joon Kui Ahn 91 Anyang-si, KR LG