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Coherent
Rank (All Time):
#1594
of 106,127
Top 2%
402 inventors
539
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Coherent
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Luis A. Spinelli
45
2
R. Russel Austin
41
3
Andrea Caprara
40
#4
Sergei V. Govorkov
36
#5
Norman Hodgson
26
#6
Andrei Starodoumov
26
#7
Leon A. Newman
21
#8
Vernon Seguin
20
#9
James L. Hobart
18
#10
David Trost
17
#11
Eric R. Mueller
17
#12
Juan L. Chilla
17
#13
Lanny Laughman
16
#14
Wayne S. Mefferd
16
#15
Anthony J. DeMaria
16
#16
Dmitri Simanovski
14
#17
Joel Fontanella
14
#18
John L. Nightingale
14
#19
David Schleuning
13
#20
Edward D. Reed
13
#21
Gerald M. Mitchell
13
#22
Daniel K. Negus
12
#23
John H. Jerman
12
#24
John T. Kennedy
12
#25
Michael W. Sasnett
12
#26
Murray Reed
12
#27
Serguei Anikitchev
12
#28
Christian J. Shackleton
11
#29
J. Michael Yarborough
11
#30
Thomas F. Johnston, Jr.
11
#31
Frederick W. Hauer
10
#32
Gongxue Hua
10
#33
Dennis Fischer
9
#34
H. Yang Pang
9
#35
Kevin P. Connors
9
#36
Michael Hertwig
9
#37
Michael Hmelar
9
#38
Adrian Papanide
9
#39
Dale E. Koop
8
#40
Nubar Manoukian
8
#41
Phillip Gardner
8
#42
Douglas W. Anthon
7
#43
Bruce E. Perilloux
6
#44
David A. Dewey
6
#45
Joseph Dallarosa
6
#46
John K. Johnson
6
#47
Michael Arnett
6
#48
Michele Wayne Winz
6
#49
Richard J. Saunders
6
#50
Charles Wang
5
#51
Gary Wang
5
#52
Hartmuth Hecht
5
#53
James Schloss
5
#54
Jason Watson
5
#55
Michael Mielke
5
#56
Patrick T. Tracy
5
#57
Peter N. Allen
5
#58
R. Ian Edmond
5
#59
Robert Henschke
5
#60
Thomas V. Hennessey, Jr.
5
#61
Thomas Schroeder
5
#62
Yang Pang
5
#63
Athanasios Chryssis
5
#64
Axel Kneip
4
#65
Bojan Resan
4
#66
Briggs Atherton
4
#67
C. David Nabors
4
#68
Christopher J. Kruger
4
#69
David J. Allie
4
#70
David M. Gaudiosi
4
#71
George Frangineas
4
#72
Gerald H. Williams
4
#73
Greg Spooner
4
#74
Lei Meng
4
#75
Mathew Noel Rekow
4
#76
Michael Jansen
4
#77
Paul Lovato
4
#78
Peter P. Chenausky
4
#79
Philip Baumeister
4
#80
Qi Shu
4
#81
Richard A. Hart
4
#82
Robert R. Naquin
4
#83
Robert J. Rorden
4
#84
Stuart Butterworth
4
#85
Tracy F. Thonn
4
#86
William P. Kolb
4
#87
William Eugene White
4
#88
Alexander O. W. Wiessner
4
#89
Benjamin H. Cook, Jr.
3
#90
Bernard J. Couillaud
3
#91
Chengquan Li
3
#92
David Clubley
3
#93
David R. Hennings
3
#94
Erik Krous
3
#95
Frank Simon
3
#96
Gerald C. Barker
3
#97
George Marcellino
3
#98
Gregory Dumond
3
#99
Hailong Zhou
3
#100
Igor Bragin
3