Top Inventors at Nlight 2019
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manoj Kanskar | 7 |
| 2 | Dahv A. V. Kliner | 6 |
| 3 | Scott R. Karlsen | 6 |
| #4 | Roger L. Farrow | 4 |
| #5 | Robert J. Martinsen | 4 |
| #6 | David Martin Hemenway | 3 |
| #7 | David C. Dawson | 3 |
| #8 | Joseph J. Emery | 3 |
| #9 | Ken Gross | 3 |
| #10 | Wolfram Urbanek | 3 |
| #11 | Chris A. Rivera | 2 |
| #12 | Jay Small | 2 |
| #13 | R. Kirk Price | 2 |
| #14 | Shelly Lin | 2 |
| #15 | Vito P. Errico | 2 |
| #16 | Walter R. Sanders | 2 |
| #17 | Aaron Brown | 1 |
| #18 | Aaron Ludwig Hodges | 1 |
| #19 | Adam Dittli | 1 |
| #20 | C. Geoffrey Fanning | 1 |
| #21 | Cary S. Kiest | 1 |
| #22 | Christopher Luetjen | 1 |
| #23 | Changgeng Ye | 1 |
| #24 | Eric Martin | 1 |
| #25 | Ethan A. McGrath | 1 |
| #26 | Jason N. Farmer | 1 |
| #27 | Jeremy Young | 1 |
| #28 | Johannes Boelen | 1 |
| #29 | Joona Koponen | 1 |
| #30 | Keith W. Kennedy | 1 |
| #31 | Mitch Stanek | 1 |
| #32 | Nathaniel Black | 1 |
| #33 | Ossi Kimmelma | 1 |
| #34 | Qi Wang | 1 |
| #35 | Robert Joseph Foley | 1 |
| #36 | Rodney Stephens | 1 |
| #37 | Scott Lerner | 1 |
| #38 | Timothy N. Kutscha | 1 |
| #39 | Xiaojun Li | 1 |
| #40 | Zhigang Chen | 1 |