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Kla-Tencor
Kla-Tencor
— 2,292 Patents
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106,120
2,049
inventors
2,292
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Kla-Tencor
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
2,049
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Yung-Ho Alex Chuang
157
2
John Fielden
113
3
Amnon Manassen
106
#4
Vladimir Levinski
91
#5
Andrei V. Shchegrov
86
#6
Ady Levy
85
#7
Mark Ghinovker
74
#8
Guoheng Zhao
73
#9
Michael Adel
72
#10
Mehdi Vaez-Iravani
69
#11
Andrew V. Hill
68
#12
J. Joseph Armstrong
68
#13
Ilya Bezel
68
#14
Mehrdad Nikoonahad
62
#15
Stilian Ivanov Pandev
60
#16
Daniel Kandel
56
#17
Lisheng Gao
55
#18
David L. Adler
54
#19
Gildardo Delgado
49
#20
Christopher F. Bevis
49
#21
Anatoly Shchemelinin
48
#22
David L. Brown
47
#23
Leonid Poslavsky
46
#24
Bin-Ming Benjamin Tsai
46
#25
Bjorn Brauer
45
#26
Shankar Krishnan
44
#27
Walter D. Mieher
43
#28
Martin Plihal
41
#29
Grace Hsiu-Ling Chen
41
#30
Mehran Nasser-Ghodsi
40
#31
Christian Wolters
38
#32
Mark A. McCord
38
#33
Dan Wack
38
#34
Gary Janik
38
#35
Ashok Kulkarni
37
#36
Jaydeep Sinha
35
#37
Stephen Biellak
35
#38
Richard Wallingford
35
#39
Rudy F. Garcia
34
#40
Roie Volkovich
34
#41
Stanley Stokowski
34
#42
Michael Friedmann
34
#43
Steven W. Meeks
34
#44
David Shafer
33
#45
David W. Shortt
33
#46
Daniel Wack
33
#47
Allen Park
33
#48
Noam Sapiens
33
#49
Daniel Kavaldjiev
33
#50
Kenong Wu
32
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