Top Inventors at Nlight 2018
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manoj Kanskar | 5 |
| 2 | Walter R. Sanders | 4 |
| 3 | David Martin Hemenway | 3 |
| #4 | Dahv A. V. Kliner | 3 |
| #5 | Raymond Kirk Price | 3 |
| #6 | Roger L. Farrow | 3 |
| #7 | Aaron Brown | 2 |
| #8 | David C. Dawson | 2 |
| #9 | Gary L. Burkholder | 2 |
| #10 | Robert J. Martinsen | 2 |
| #11 | Scott R. Karlsen | 2 |
| #12 | Wolfram Urbanek | 2 |
| #13 | Adam Dittli | 1 |
| #14 | C. Geoffrey Fanning | 1 |
| #15 | David Logan | 1 |
| #16 | Johannes Boelen | 1 |
| #17 | Joseph J. Emery | 1 |
| #18 | Kenneth V. Almonte | 1 |
| #19 | Keith W. Kennedy | 1 |
| #20 | Matthieu Saracco | 1 |
| #21 | Mitchell Reynolds | 1 |
| #22 | Qi Wang | 1 |
| #23 | Scott Lerner | 1 |
| #24 | Shelly Lin | 1 |
| #25 | Timothy N. Kutscha | 1 |
| #26 | Timothy S. McComb | 1 |