Top Inventors at Heartware 2018
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeffrey A. LaRose | 7 |
| 2 | Charles R. Shambaugh | 5 |
| 3 | John Rudser | 4 |
| #4 | Barry M. Yomtov | 3 |
| #5 | Daniel G. White | 3 |
| #6 | Kartikeyan Trichi | 3 |
| #7 | Mustafa Ertan Taskin | 3 |
| #8 | Richard A. Marquis | 3 |
| #9 | Daniel Tamez | 2 |
| #10 | John Robert Batty | 2 |
| #11 | Lance Lynn Andrus | 2 |
| #12 | Neil Voskoboynikov | 2 |
| #13 | Steven A. White | 2 |
| #14 | Antonio Luiz Silva Ferreira | 1 |
| #15 | Carlos Reyes | 1 |
| #16 | David B. Paden | 1 |
| #17 | Dan Tamez | 1 |
| #18 | Ellen Keysselitz | 1 |
| #19 | Fernando Casas | 1 |
| #20 | Georg Wieselthaler | 1 |
| #21 | Heinrich Schima | 1 |
| #22 | Jeff Colella | 1 |
| #23 | Jingchun Wu | 1 |
| #24 | Justin Wolman | 1 |
| #25 | Martin Stoiber | 1 |
| #26 | Michael R. Ricci | 1 |
| #27 | Pedro GRAVE DE PERALTA | 1 |
| #28 | Ramiro Gomez | 1 |
| #29 | Shaun T. Snyder | 1 |
| #30 | Steve A. White | 1 |
| #31 | Timothy McSweeney | 1 |
| #32 | William Trueba | 1 |
| #33 | Wolfgang Kerkhoffs | 1 |
| #34 | Zeno Deckert | 1 |