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Intuitive Surgical
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Intuitive Surgical
— 119 Patents in 2017
Rank
(2017):
#316
of
29,974
Top 2%
193
inventors
119
Patents 2017
Top Inventors at Intuitive Surgical
2017
Showing
1–50
of
193
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
David Q. Larkin
17
2
Thomas G. Cooper
15
3
Bruce M. Schena
13
#4
Brian D. Hoffman
10
#4
Paul W. Mohr
10
#6
Giuseppe Maria Prisco
8
#7
David W. Robinson
7
#7
Nicola Diolaiti
7
#7
Stephen J. Blumenkranz
7
#7
William C. Nowlin
7
#11
Arjang M. Hourtash
6
#11
Mark E. Froggatt
6
#11
Nitish Swarup
6
#11
Simon P. DiMaio
6
#15
Catherine J. Mohr
5
#15
Christopher J. Hasser
5
#15
David J. Danitz
5
#15
Gary S. Guthart
5
#15
Gregory W. Dachs, II
5
#15
Gunter D. Niemeyer
5
#15
Pushkar Hingwe
5
#15
S. Christopher Anderson
5
#15
Tao Zhao
5
#24
Anthony K. McGrogan
4
#24
Daniel H. Gomez
4
#24
David D. Scott
4
#24
Eugene F. Duval
4
#24
Grant Duque
4
#24
Ian E. McDowall
4
#24
Margaret M. Nixon
4
#24
Thomas R. Nixon
4
#24
Theodore W. Rogers
4
#24
Vincent Duindam
4
#24
Wenyi Zhao
4
#24
William A. Burbank
4
#36
Amante Mangaser
3
#36
Brandon D. Itkowitz
3
#36
Cameron D. Hinman
3
#36
Christoph Matthias Pistor
3
#36
David S. Mintz
3
#36
Darrin Uecker
3
#36
David W. Weir
3
#36
James Wright
3
#36
Jeffrey D. Brown
3
#36
Jonathan M. Sorger
3
#36
John W. Zabinski
3
#36
Justin W. Klein
3
#36
Kevin Durant
3
#36
Michael Hanuschik
3
#36
Modjtaba Ghodoussi
3
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