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Cognex
Rank (All Time):
#1401
of 106,127
Top 2%
277 inventors
618
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Cognex
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Laurens Nunnink
99
2
David J. Michael
70
3
Aaron S. Wallack
60
#4
William M. Silver
56
#5
James A. Negro
44
#6
Ivan Bachelder
41
#7
Adam Wagman
32
#8
Carl W. Gerst, III
30
#9
Sanjay Nichani
29
#10
Lowell D. Jacobson
27
#11
David Y. Li
26
#12
Cyril C. Marrion
24
#13
Richard Reuter
23
#14
E. John McGarry
21
#15
William Equitz
21
#16
Gang Liu
20
#17
Xiangyun Ye
20
#18
Nathaniel Bogan
18
#19
Juha Koljonen
16
#20
Lei Wang
16
#21
Robert A. Wolff
16
#22
Esther Oteo Lozano
15
#23
Matthew D. Engle
14
#24
Michael C. Moed
14
#25
John F. Filhaber
13
#26
Lifeng Liu
13
#27
Andreas Weber
13
#28
Benjamin Braker
12
#29
Sateesha Nadabar
12
#30
Arman Garakani
12
#31
Eric Moore
11
#32
Hongwei Zhu
11
#33
Marcus Große
11
#34
Rene Delasauce
11
#35
Robert Tremblay
11
#36
Guruprasad Shivaram
10
#37
John McGarry
10
#38
John P. Petry
10
#39
Nigel J. Foster
10
#40
Simon Barker
10
#41
Willard Foster
10
#42
Andrew Hoelscher
10
#43
Bastian Harendt
9
#44
Gilbert Chiang
9
#45
John F. Keating
9
#46
Kai Fluegge
9
#47
Mario Joussen
9
#48
Ben R. Carey
8
#49
Chen Gao
8
#50
John Bryan Boatner
8
#51
Pepe Fernandez-Dorado
8
#52
Xiaoguang Wang
8
#53
George Costigan
7
#54
Martin Schaffer
7
#55
Mikhail Akopyan
7
#56
Nickolas J. Mullan
7
#57
Ronald Zimmerman
7
#58
Torsten Kempf
7
#59
Venkat K. Gopalakrishnan
7
#60
David A. Schatz
6
#61
David James Stein
6
#62
Earle B. Stokes
6
#63
Joseph Scola
6
#64
Karen Sarachik
6
#65
Mario Joußen
6
#66
Paul Dutta-Choudhury
6
#67
Raymond Fix
6
#68
Steven Whitman
6
#69
Zihan Hans Liu
6
#70
Ali Zadeh
6
#71
Andrew Parrett
6
#72
Daniel Moreno
5
#73
Dale R. Peterson
5
#74
Esther Oteo
5
#75
Francisco Guerrero
5
#76
Frank Winzen
5
#77
Igor Reyzin
5
#78
Joerg Kesten
5
#79
Kai Flügge
5
#80
Len L. Picard
5
#81
Michael F. Gifford
5
#82
Michael Sussman
5
#83
Nitin M. Vaidya
5
#84
Trevor McDonald
5
#85
William Silver
5
#86
Xianju Wang
5
#87
Yukang Liu
5
#88
Aaron Wegner
5
#89
Brian S. Phillips
4
#90
David King
4
#91
Fariborz Rostami
4
#92
Jason Davis
4
#93
Jean-Pierre Schott
4
#94
Jeffrey Wolinsky
4
#95
Jose Fernandez-Dorado
4
#96
Karen Roberts
4
#97
Kurt M. Anderson
4
#98
Leonid Taycher
4
#99
Nicole Dippel
4
#100
Robert Drisko
4