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Alcon
Rank (2020):
#418
of 32,488
Top 2%
200 inventors
109
Patents 2020
Top Inventors at Alcon
2020
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Frank Chang
12
2
Michael J. Papac
10
3
Alireza Mirsepassi
7
#4
John Dallas Pruitt
7
#5
Feng Jing
6
#6
Troy Vernon Holland
6
#7
Lingfeng Yu
5
#8
Roger Biel
5
#9
Ronald T. Smith
5
#10
Yongxing Qiu
5
#11
Christof Donitzky
4
#12
Hugang Ren
4
#13
Mark Harrison Farley
4
#14
Ryan DeSousa
4
#15
Steve Yun Zhang
4
#16
Xinming Qian
4
#17
Andrew David Johnson
3
#18
Augustine Twum Kumi
3
#19
Brian William McDonell
3
#20
Cesario Dos Santos
3
#21
Chung-Yuan Chiang
3
#22
Chenguang Diao
3
#23
Christian Wuellner
3
#24
Daqing Wu
3
#25
Douglas C. Schlueter
3
#26
Gerald David Bacher
3
#27
Howard Allen Ketelson
3
#28
Jared Nelson
3
#29
Jinyu Huang
3
#30
Matthew D. Nelson
3
#31
Matthias Schwab
3
#32
Nicholas Max Gunn
3
#33
Richard Charles Breitkopf
3
#34
Sarah Unterkofler
3
#35
Sissimos Lemonis
3
#36
Steven T. Charles
3
#37
Stephen J. Van Noy
3
#38
Susanne Fechner
3
#39
Xin Hong
3
#40
Ying Zheng
3
#41
Zach Munoz
3
#42
Ahmad Robert Hadba
2
#43
Ashok Burton Tripathi
2
#44
David L. Meadows
2
#45
Ferenc Raksi
2
#46
Fred Mercado
2
#47
Harald Bothe
2
#48
John Morgan Bourne
2
#49
John Richard Carpenter
2
#50
Junhao Ge
2
#51
Kambiz Parto
2
#52
Katrin Sylke Struckmeier
2
#53
Kyle Brown
2
#54
Martin Eil
2
#55
Marcus Heift
2
#56
Mauricio Jochinsen
2
#57
Mikhail Ovchinnikov
2
#58
Michael Stutz
2
#59
Muhammad K. Al-Qaisi
2
#60
Niels Alexander Abt
2
#61
Paul R. Hallen
2
#62
Philipp Schaller
2
#63
Reto Grueebler
2
#64
Robert J. Sanchez, JR.
2
#65
Robert Carey Tucker
2
#66
Salomon Valencia
2
#67
Thomas Deisinger
2
#68
Venkat Shankar
2
#69
Weihong Lang
2
#70
Xuwei Jiang
2
#71
Yinghui Wu
2
#72
Alfred Fischer
1
#73
Andrew M. Hahn
1
#74
Andrew Steven Hopper
1
#75
Andrea Kopp
1
#76
André Wicklein
1
#77
Arno Florian Warken
1
#78
Armin Wellhoefer
1
#79
Axel Heinrich
1
#80
Barry L. Wheatley
1
#81
Bernhard Seiferling
1
#82
Bernd Zerl
1
#83
Bing Wang
1
#84
Bogdan Vigaru
1
#85
Burkhard Dietrich
1
#86
Carsten Thomas
1
#87
Craig Bender
1
#88
David A. Downer
1
#89
David Andrew Icenogle
1
#90
Daniel L. Kessler
1
#91
Daniel Kiefhaber
1
#92
David J. Smith
1
#93
Daniel Thimm
1
#94
Daniel Wilhelm
1
#95
Denise H. Burns
1
#96
Dietmar Berghänel
1
#97
Douglas Brent Wensrich
1
#98
Elaine E. Campbell
1
#99
Elmar Kuther
1
#100
Eric Y. Lee
1