Patent Leaderboard
All Time
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
Search
Companies
Inventors
HG
HGST
Rank (All Time):
#301
of 106,127
Top 1%
1,869 inventors
2,633
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at HGST
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Hardayal Singh Gill
152
2
Mustafa Pinarbasi
100
3
Jeffrey S. Lille
70
#4
Stefan Maat
64
#5
Aron Pentek
65
#6
Vladimir Nikitin
64
#7
Edward Hin Pong Lee
65
#8
Quang Le
60
#9
Wen-Chien David Hsiao
67
#10
Donald Ray Gillis
57
#11
Jeffrey R. Childress
52
#12
Matthew J. Carey
50
#13
Thomas R. Albrecht
52
#14
James Mac Freitag
51
#15
Yi Zheng
48
#16
Wipul Pemsiri Jayasekara
47
#17
Tsann Lin
45
#18
Ming Jiang
44
#19
Yimin Hsu
43
#20
Robert E. Fontana, Jr.
41
#21
Zvonimir Z. Bandic
42
#22
Ernesto E. Marinero
40
#23
Eric Fullerton
38
#24
Ferdinand Hendriks
36
#25
Kuok San Ho
37
#26
Gordon James Smith
37
#27
Mike Suk
35
#28
Norbert A. Feliss
36
#29
Bernhard E. Knigge
34
#30
David J. Seagle
34
#31
Barry Cushing Stipe
33
#32
Bruce Alvin Gurney
33
#33
Bruce A. Wilson
33
#34
Hung-Chin Guthrie
33
#35
Sue Siyang Zhang
34
#36
Jr-Yi Shen
30
#37
Richard Hsiao
31
#38
Toshiki Hirano
32
#39
Ching Hwa Tsang
27
#40
Masafumi Mochizuki
39
#41
Fu-Ying Huang
28
#42
Kim Y. Lee
28
#43
Richard Leo Galbraith
27
#44
John Contreras
26
#45
Andre S. Chan
25
#46
Howard Gordon Zolla
28
#47
Jui-Lung Li
24
#48
Neil Smith
24
#49
Xiao Z. Wu
24
#50
David Margulies
23
#51
Masayuki Kurita
29
#52
Hugo Alberto Emilio Santini
24
#53
Huey-Ming Tzeng
23
#54
Daniele Mauri
22
#55
Kai Tang
23
#56
Mario Blaum
22
#57
Tetsuo Semba
22
#58
Matthew T. White
21
#59
Neil Leslie Robertson
22
#60
Satoshi Yamamoto
22
#61
Tatsumi Tsuchiya
21
#62
Alexander M. Zeltser
21
#63
Remmelt Pit
20
#64
Shingo Tsuda
20
#65
Yoshio Uematsu
20
#66
Bruce David Terris
19
#67
Patrick Rush Webb
20
#68
Hiroyasu Tsuchida
19
#69
Marie-Claire Cyrille
21
#70
Masashi Kisaka
19
#71
Mason Williams
19
#72
Olav Hellwig
19
#73
Travis Roger Oenning
19
#74
Amanda Baer
20
#75
Brian R. York
19
#76
Kimitoshi Etoh
22
#77
Peter Michael Baumgart
18
#78
Ta-Chang Fu
19
#79
Takako Hayakawa
19
#80
Karl A. Flechsig
18
#81
Hiroshi Uchida
17
#82
Kenji Kuroki
17
#83
Manfred Ernst Schabes
17
#84
Sri M. Sri-Jayantha
17
#85
Chie Ching Poon
16
#86
Jih-Shiuan Luo
18
#87
Jyh-Shuey Lo
18
#88
Nobumasa Nishiyama
18
#89
Yinshi Liu
17
#90
Timothy Carl Strand
16
#91
Takayoshi Ohtsu
19
#92
Henry Hung Yang
16
#93
Mary Frances Doerner
16
#94
Hiroki Kitahori
15
#95
Toshiya Shiramatsu
16
#96
Jordan Asher Katine
15
#97
Mohammad Mirzamaani
15
#98
Natacha Supper
15
#99
Robert Beach
15
#100
Takaaki Deguchi
15