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Intuitive Surgical
Rank (All Time):
#5973
of 106,127
Top 6%
88 inventors
122
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Intuitive Surgical
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Gary S. Guthart
25
2
Thomas G. Cooper
22
3
Darrin Uecker
21
#4
Daniel T. Wallace
20
#5
Gunter D. Niemeyer
20
#6
Yulun Wang
19
#7
Robert G. Younge
16
#8
J. Kenneth Salisbury, Jr.
15
#9
William C. Nowlin
15
#10
James Wright
13
#11
David J. Rosa
12
#12
Stephen J. Blumenkranz
12
#13
Andris D. Ramans
11
#14
Frederic H. Moll
10
#15
Jeff Wilson
10
#16
Tracey A. Morley
10
#17
Charles S. Jordan
9
#18
Chris Julian
9
#19
Keith Phillip Laby
9
#20
Michael J. Tierney
9
#21
Akhil J. Madhani
9
#22
Modjtaba Ghodoussi
8
#23
Scott E. Manzo
8
#24
Christopher Julian
7
#25
Dean Hoornaert
7
#26
Steven J. Blumenkranz
7
#27
S. Christopher Anderson
6
#28
Steve Jordan
6
#29
Craig Gerbi
5
#30
Amante Mangaser
5
#31
Bruce M. Schena
4
#32
David Baron
4
#33
Gregory K. Toth
4
#34
Nitish Swarup
4
#35
Volkmar Falk
4
#36
Charles C. Wooters
3
#37
David S. Mintz
3
#38
Eugene F. Duval
3
#39
John D. Stern
3
#40
Mina Farr
3
#41
Christopher R. Burns
2
#42
Charles P. Steiner
2
#43
Christopher P. Wilson
2
#44
David S. Gere
2
#45
David Q. Larkin
2
#46
David Bjorn Roe
2
#47
Gang Wang
2
#48
Giuseppe Maria Prisco
2
#49
John Freund
2
#50
Joseph F. Hahn
2
#51
John W. Hill
2
#52
Joseph P. Orban, III
2
#53
Michael Ikeda
2
#54
Philip C. Evans
2
#55
Rand P. Pendleton
2
#56
Roman L. Devengenzo
2
#57
Steve E. Butner
2
#58
Tom Nixon
2
#59
Wolfgang Braxmeier
2
#60
Christopher W. Mauer
1
#61
Christopher W. Maurer
1
#62
Dan Sanchez
1
#63
Don S. Minami
1
#64
Dustin Williams
1
#65
Edward Ramsey Snow
1
#66
Eve Coste-Maniere
1
#67
Frank Mestas
1
#68
Henry Hazebrouck
1
#69
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat
1
#70
Keith Philip Laby
1
#71
Louai Adhami
1
#72
Margaret M. Isaac
1
#73
Matt Williams
1
#74
Michael Prindiville
1
#75
Philip S. Green
1
#76
Ranjan Mukherjee
1
#77
Stephen Anderson
1
#78
Stacey Chang
1
#79
Steven J. Colton
1
#80
Thomas R. Nixon
1
#81
Tom G. Cooper
1
#82
Todd R. Solomon
1
#83
Tracy A. Morley
1
#84
William A. Burbank
1
#85
Bob Hager
1
#86
Alain F. Carpentier
1
#87
Alan W. Petersen
1
#88
Alan W. Peterson
1