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Cognex
Rank (2018):
#1046
of 30,013
Top 4%
57 inventors
36
Patents 2018
Top Inventors at Cognex
2018
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Laurens Nunnink
10
2
James A. Negro
7
3
Carl W. Gerst, III
4
#4
Matthew D. Engle
4
#5
Cyril C. Marrion
3
#6
David James Stein
3
#7
Earle B. Stokes
3
#8
Michael F. Gifford
3
#9
William Equitz
3
#10
Xiangyun Ye
3
#11
Bobby Dale Gifford
2
#12
David Y. Li
2
#13
David J. Michael
2
#14
Dale R. Peterson
2
#15
Gang Liu
2
#16
Ivan Bachelder
2
#17
John Bryan Boatner
2
#18
John McGarry
2
#19
Lei Wang
2
#20
Lifeng Liu
2
#21
Lowell D. Jacobson
2
#22
Mikhail Akopyan
2
#23
Michael C. Moed
2
#24
Richard Reuter
2
#25
Steven Kearns
2
#26
William M. Silver
2
#27
Aaron S. Wallack
1
#28
Aaron Wegner
1
#29
Benjamin Braker
1
#30
Eric Moore
1
#31
Esther Oteo Lozano
1
#32
Esther Oteo
1
#33
Fenghua Jin
1
#34
Feng Qian
1
#35
Frank Winzen
1
#36
John F. Filhaber
1
#37
Joerg Kesten
1
#38
Jörg Kesten
1
#39
Mark D. Johnson
1
#40
Mario Joußen
1
#41
Mario Joussen
1
#42
Matthew R. Reome
1
#43
Nickolas J. Mullan
1
#44
Paul Burrell
1
#45
Rene Delasauce
1
#46
Robert Tremblay
1
#47
Robert A. Wolff
1
#48
Ronald Zimmerman
1
#49
Saul Sanz Rodriguez
1
#50
Shekhar Bangalore Sastry
1
#51
Simon Barker
1
#52
Tian Gan
1
#53
Trevor McDonald
1
#54
Willard Foster
1
#55
Xianju Wang
1
#56
Yael Steinsaltz
1
#57
Yu Feng Hsu
1