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Rank (All Time):
#3652
of 106,127
Top 4%
91 inventors
211
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Nlight
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Dahv A. V. Kliner
58
2
Roger L. Farrow
42
3
Manoj Kanskar
38
#4
Robert J. Martinsen
32
#5
Scott R. Karlsen
27
#6
Ken Gross
19
#7
David Martin Hemenway
18
#8
Jay Small
18
#9
Aaron Brown
14
#10
David C. Dawson
12
#11
Zhigang Chen
12
#12
Brian Victor
11
#13
Wolfram Urbanek
10
#14
Bodo Schmidt
8
#15
Joseph J. Emery
7
#16
Joona Koponen
7
#17
Paul S. Banks
7
#18
Timothy S. McComb
7
#19
Tyson L. Lowder
7
#20
Aaron Ludwig Hodges
7
#21
Chris A. Rivera
6
#22
Ryan Hawke
6
#23
Vito P. Errico
6
#24
Walter R. Sanders
6
#25
C. Geoffrey Fanning
5
#26
Jiamin Zhang
5
#27
R. Kirk Price
5
#28
Scott Lerner
5
#29
Shuang Li
5
#30
Shelly Lin
5
#31
David Logan
4
#32
Eric Martin
4
#33
Keith W. Kennedy
4
#34
Qi Wang
4
#35
Raymond Kirk Price
4
#36
Teemu Kokki
4
#37
Timothy N. Kutscha
4
#38
Adam Dittli
4
#39
Charles Stewart Tuvey
3
#40
Changgeng Ye
3
#41
David R. Balsley
3
#42
Gary L. Burkholder
3
#43
Jason N. Farmer
3
#44
Jeremy Young
3
#45
Johannes Boelen
3
#46
Lorenzo N. Venneri
3
#47
Lynn Sheehan
3
#48
Mark DeFranza
3
#49
Mitchell Reynolds
3
#50
Ossi Kimmelma
3
#51
Ron Stevens
3
#52
C. Stewart Tuvey
2
#53
Cary S. Kiest
2
#54
Chris Luetjen
2
#55
Christopher Luetjen
2
#56
Dennis McCal
2
#57
Jacob L. Bell
2
#58
Jared Green
2
#59
Jim Zhang
2
#60
Juan Carlos LUGO
2
#61
Kenneth V. Almonte
2
#62
Kylan Hoener
2
#63
Laeticia Petit
2
#64
Matthieu Saracco
2
#65
Michael C. Nelson
2
#66
Mitch Stanek
2
#67
Nathaniel Black
2
#68
Petteri Väinänen
2
#69
Robert Joseph Foley
2
#70
Rob Martinsen
2
#71
Ronii C. Mehl
2
#72
Roger C. Shipman
2
#73
Rodney Stephens
2
#74
Robert G. Waarts
2
#75
Shaun Hampton
2
#76
Steve Herman
2
#77
Chendong Bai
1
#78
Christopher A. Ebbers
1
#79
Christopher A. Rivera
1
#80
David C. Senders
1
#81
Ethan A. McGrath
1
#82
James M. Haden
1
#83
Joseph V. DeBartolo, Jr.
1
#84
John Edgecumbe
1
#85
Joe Kollmann
1
#86
Ken Almonte
1
#87
Kevin Shea
1
#88
Nicolas Biekert
1
#89
Nicolas Trent Meacham
1
#90
Travis Arthur Abshere
1
#91
Xiaojun Li
1