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Top Inventors 2018

Ranked by patent count

Showing 1–50 of 503,207 inventors

Rank Name Patents Location Company
1 Kangguo Cheng 338 Schenectady, NY IBM
2 Shunpei Yamazaki 307 Tokyo, MO Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
3 Jonathan P. Ive 184 San Francisco, CA Apple
#4 Hanbyul Seo 176 Seoul, KR LG
#5 Roderick A. Hyde 175 Redmond, WA Elwha
#6 Alexander Reznicek 171 Troy, NY IBM
#7 Chen-Hua Yu 148 Hsinchu, TW TSMC
#8 Frederick E. Shelton, IV 147 Cincinnati, OH Johnson & Johnson
#9 Duncan Robert Kerr 138 San Francisco, CA Apple
#10 Lowell L. Wood, JR. 137 Bellevue, WA The Invention Science Fund I
#11 Wanshi Chen 136 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#12 Yunjung Yi 135 Vienna, VA LG
#13 Peter Gaal 135 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#14 Christopher J. Stringer 135 Woodside, CA Apple
#15 Bartley K. Andre 132 Los Gatos, CA Apple
#16 Jason K. Resch 130 Apponaug, RI IBM
#17 Rico Zörkendörfer 129 San Francisco, CA Apple
#18 Richard P. Howarth 129 Lake Forest, IL Apple
#19 Irwin Gerszberg 129 Kendall Park, NJ AT&T
#20 Joonkui Ahn 128 Seoul, KR LG
#21 Daniele De Iuliis 126 San Francisco, CA Apple
#22 Woosuk KO 124 Seoul, KR LG
#23 Paul Shala Henry 123 Holmdel, NJ AT&T
#24 Eugene Antony Whang 123 San Francisco, CA Apple
#25 Ruilong Xie 122 Niskayuna, NY IBM
#26 M. Evans Hankey 119 San Francisco, CA Apple
#27 Farhad Barzegar 117 Readington, NJ AT&T
#28 Thomas M. Willis, III 116 Petersburg, MI AT&T
#29 Stuart C. Salter 116 White Lake, MI Ford
#30 Peter Russell-Clarke 116 San Francisco, CA Apple
#31 Jeremy Bataillou 116 San Francisco, CA Apple
#32 Sungryong Hong 115 Seoul, KR LG
#33 Jody Akana 115 Los Altos Hills, CA Apple
#34 Tao Luo 114 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#35 Suckchel Yang 113 Seoul, KR LG
#36 Julian Hoenig 113 San Francisco, CA Apple
#37 Donald J. Barnickel 113 Flemington, NJ AT&T
#38 Robert Bennett 111 Tampa, FL AT&T
#39 Michael K. Gschwind 110 Chappaqua, NY IBM
#40 Jordin T. Kare 110 San Jose, CA Elwha
#41 Sunghoon Jung 108 Seoul, CA LG
#42 Daniel J. Coster 108 San Francisco, CA Apple
#43 Matthew Dean Rohrbach 107 San Francisco, CA Apple
#44 Kijun Kim 106 Seoul, KR LG
#45 Clifford A. Pickover 105 Yorktown Heights, NY IBM
#46 Sarbajit K. Rakshit 104 Sherghati, TX IBM
#47 Michael A. Leabman 103 San Ramon, CA Energous
#48 Devendra K. Sadana 103 Pleasantville, NY IBM
#49 Mikael Silvanto 102 San Francisco, CA Apple
#50 Tenko Yamashita 101 Schenectady, NY IBM