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Cornell Research Foundation
CF
Cornell Research Foundation
— 1,531 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#548
of
106,120
Top 1%
1,638
inventors
1,531
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Cornell Research Foundation
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
1,638
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Noel C. MacDonald
54
2
Francis Barany
51
3
Harold G. Craighead
47
#4
Jean M. J. Frechet
31
#5
Christopher K. Ober
28
#5
Dennis Gonsalves
28
#5
Robert P. Hammer
28
#8
George Barany
27
#8
Geoffrey W. Coates
27
#10
Watt W. Webb
26
#11
Owen W. Griffith
25
#12
Chih-Chang Chu
22
#12
Hazel H. Szeto
22
#14
Steven A. Goldman
21
#15
Lloyd J. Old
20
#15
Monib Zirvi
20
#15
Yao-Tseng Chen
20
#18
John C. Sanford
19
#19
Lee W. Riley
18
#19
Steven V. Beer
18
#21
Stephen Turner
17
#21
Xingen Lei
17
#23
Steven S. Gross
16
#24
Alan Collmer
15
#24
Alton Meister
15
#24
Gary E. Harman
15
#24
Matthew Lubin
15
#24
Neil H. Bander
15
#29
Ali Gure
14
#29
Chung L. Tang
14
#29
Elke Jager
14
#29
Matthew Scanlan
14
#29
Ronald G. Crystal
14
#29
Shahin Rafii
14
#35
Bruce Kristal
13
#35
Edward J. Dubovi
13
#35
Herman Blok
13
#35
Jonas Korlach
13
#35
Kevin A. Shaw
13
#35
Maria Kempe
13
#35
Michael Levene
13
#35
Rishi Raj
13
#35
Zhong-Min Wei
13
#44
David Yankelevitz
12
#44
Michael Shuler
12
#46
Albert I. Ko
11
#46
Anthony P. Reeves
11
#46
Claudia Henschke
11
#46
David A. Haake
11
#46
Elisabeth Stockert
11
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