Top Inventors at Electro Scientific Industries 2017
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Haibin Zhang | 3 |
| 2 | Qian Xu | 3 |
| 3 | Mathew Noel Rekow | 2 |
| #4 | Bruce W. Ball | 1 |
| #5 | Brian Johansen | 1 |
| #6 | Daniel Freifeld | 1 |
| #7 | Douglas J. Garcia | 1 |
| #8 | Fang Shan | 1 |
| #9 | George Linscott | 1 |
| #10 | Glenn Simenson | 1 |
| #11 | James Brookhyser | 1 |
| #12 | Jan Kleinert | 1 |
| #13 | Jack Rundel | 1 |
| #14 | Jeffrey Howerton | 1 |
| #15 | John B. Burnett | 1 |
| #16 | Joe Frankel | 1 |
| #17 | John E. Roberts | 1 |
| #18 | Justin Redd | 1 |
| #19 | Kyung-young Kim | 1 |
| #20 | Matthew Pysher | 1 |
| #21 | Mark A. Unrath | 1 |
| #22 | Michael J. Darwin | 1 |
| #23 | Michael S. Nashner | 1 |
| #24 | Min Zhang | 1 |
| #25 | Nicolas Falletto | 1 |
| #26 | Weixiong Lu | 1 |
| #27 | Yun Zhou | 1 |