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Kla-Tencor
Kla-Tencor
— 173 Patents in 2018
Rank
(2018):
#201
of
30,013
Top 1%
353
inventors
173
Patents 2018
Top Inventors at Kla-Tencor
2018
Showing
1–50
of
353
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Stilian Ivanov Pandev
12
2
Yung-Ho Alex Chuang
11
3
Andrei V. Shchegrov
10
3
Daniel Kandel
10
#5
John Fielden
9
#6
Andrew V. Hill
7
#6
Nuriel Amir
7
#6
Shankar Krishnan
7
#9
Anatoly Shchemelinin
6
#9
Barak Bringoltz
6
#9
Gildardo Delgado
6
#9
Ilya Bezel
6
#9
Leonid Poslavsky
6
#9
Lisheng Gao
6
#9
Vladimir Levinski
6
#9
Xinrong Jiang
6
#17
Alexey Kuritsyn
5
#17
Amnon Manassen
5
#17
Anant Chimmalgi
5
#17
Christopher Sears
5
#17
Guoheng Zhao
5
#17
Justin Dianhuan Liou
5
#17
Mark D. Smith
5
#17
Noam Sapiens
5
#17
Oleg Khodykin
5
#26
Ady Levy
4
#26
Ashok Kulkarni
4
#26
David Y. Wang
4
#26
Jamie M. Sullivan
4
#26
Martin Plihal
4
#26
Michael Adel
4
#26
Michael S. Bakeman
4
#26
Rudy F. Garcia
4
#26
Santosh Bhattacharyya
4
#26
Shifang Li
4
#26
Xiaoxu Lu
4
#26
Yuri Paskover
4
#38
Bjorn Brauer
3
#38
David L. Brown
3
#38
David W. Shortt
3
#38
Dirk Woll
3
#38
Donald Pettibone
3
#38
Grace Hsiu-Ling Chen
3
#38
Harsh Sinha
3
#38
Ivan Maleev
3
#38
J. Joseph Armstrong
3
#38
Jaydeep Sinha
3
#38
Jing Zhang
3
#38
Kai Cao
3
#38
Kenneth P. Gross
3
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