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Alcon
Rank (All Time):
#762
of 106,127
Top 1%
866 inventors
1,135
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Alcon
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Steve Yun Zhang
48
2
Steven T. Charles
38
3
Alireza Mirsepassi
34
#4
Frank Chang
32
#5
Ronald T. Smith
31
#6
Junhao Ge
29
#7
Ashok Burton Tripathi
29
#8
John Dallas Pruitt
24
#9
Xin Hong
24
#10
Yinghui Wu
24
#11
Daqing Wu
23
#12
Mikhail Boukhny
23
#13
Douglas Brent Wensrich
22
#14
Mark Harrison Farley
22
#15
Yongxing Qiu
22
#16
Andrew T. Schieber
22
#17
Howard Allen Ketelson
21
#18
Douglas C. Schlueter
20
#19
Feng Jing
20
#20
Mark R. Hellberg
20
#21
Michael Wittnebel
20
#22
Richard Charles Breitkopf
20
#23
Chenguang Diao
19
#24
James Y. Chon
19
#25
Jesse A. May
19
#26
John Alfred Campin
19
#27
John C. Huculak
18
#28
Niels Alexander Abt
18
#29
Reto Grueebler
18
#30
Augustine Twum Kumi
17
#31
Mario Abraham
17
#32
Michael D. Morgan
17
#33
Michael J. Papac
17
#34
Glenn Sussman
16
#35
Martin Gründig
16
#36
Yuan Chang
16
#37
Zsolt Bor
16
#38
George Hunter Pettit
15
#39
Jian Liu
15
#40
Paul R. Hallen
15
#41
Raphael Gordon
15
#42
Gary P. Sorensen
14
#43
George Charles Polchin
14
#44
Patrick Terry
14
#45
Roger Biel
14
#46
Stephen J. Van Noy
14
#47
Sudarshan B. Singh
14
#48
Todd Taber
14
#49
Troy Vernon Holland
14
#50
Jack R. Auld
13
#51
Xiaoxiao Zhang
13
#52
Brian William McDonell
12
#53
Chung-Yuan Chiang
12
#54
Gary P. Gray
12
#55
Mark Hopkins
12
#56
Maximiliano Ramirez Luna
12
#57
Niccolo Maschio
12
#58
Robert Carey Tucker
12
#59
Stephen John Collins
12
#60
Weihong Lang
12
#61
Xinming Qian
12
#62
Abbot F. Clark
12
#63
Gerald David Bacher
11
#64
Hugang Ren
11
#65
Jing Cheng
11
#66
Lingfeng Yu
11
#67
Mikhail Ovchinnikov
11
#68
Newton T. Samuel
11
#69
Peter G. Klimko
11
#70
Terah Whiting Smiley
11
#71
Chandana Kolluru
10
#72
David L. Meadows
10
#73
David Thoe
10
#74
James H. Burkhalter
10
#75
Mark Andrew Zielke
10
#76
Myoung-Taek Choi
10
#77
Peter Zieger
10
#78
Rudolph F. Zacher
10
#79
Sean Christopher Madden
10
#80
Shawn X. Gao
10
#81
Thomas Paul Riederer
10
#82
Ying Zheng
10
#83
Yueai Liu
10
#84
Daniel A. Gamache
9
#85
Edwin J. Sarver
9
#86
Jared Nelson
9
#87
Jiansheng Zhou
9
#88
John R. Underwood
9
#89
John M. Yanni
9
#90
John Wardle
9
#91
Matthew McCawley
9
#92
Matthias Schwab
9
#93
Mutlu Karakelle
9
#94
Neil Zepkin
9
#95
Rudolph W. Frey
9
#96
Shinwook Lee
9
#97
Thomas Linsi
9
#98
Anura P. Dantanarayana
9
#99
George R. Downes
8
#100
Grace Liao
8