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Optical Coating Laboratory
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Optical Coating Laboratory
— 126 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#5,596
of
105,732
Top 6%
152
inventors
126
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2005
Bar chart with a peak of 14 patents in 1999.
peak 14
1980: 8 patents
1980
1981: 4 patents
1982: 6 patents
1983: 4 patents
1983
1984: 4 patents
1985: 2 patents
1986: 3 patents
1986
1987: 6 patents
1988: 5 patents
1989: 7 patents
1989
1990: 2 patents
1992: 5 patents
1993: 2 patents
1993
1995: 3 patents
1996: 1 patents
1997: 2 patents
1997
1998: 12 patents
1999: 14 patents
2000: 5 patents
2000
2001: 8 patents
2002: 9 patents
2003: 3 patents
2003
2004: 9 patents
2005: 2 patents
2005
Top Inventors at Optical Coating Laboratory
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
152
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Richard I. Seddon
18
2
Bryant P. Hichwa
12
3
Michael A. Scobey
11
#4
Roger W. Phillips
10
#5
James W. Seeser
9
#5
Michael J. Cumbo
9
#5
William T. Beauchamp
9
#8
Erik W. Anthon
8
#8
Michael D. Temple
8
#8
Paul Lefebvre
8
#11
James D. Rancourt
7
#11
Marc A. Kamerling
7
#13
Curtis R. Hruska
6
#14
Peter H. Berning
5
#14
Scott E. Solberg
5
#16
Basil L. Swaby
4
#16
Brett J. Bryars
4
#16
David L. Soberanis
4
#16
Donald L. Keehn
4
#16
John S. Matteucci
4
#16
Nancy L. S. Yamasaki
4
#16
Nils H. Bergfelt
4
#16
Robert W. Hallock
4
#16
Robert Scanlon
4
#16
Steven P. Sapers
4
#26
Barry W. Manley
3
#26
Bradley James Pond
3
#26
Edward A. Small, Jr.
3
#26
James K. Snyder
3
#26
Jaroslaw Zieba
3
#26
Jerry Zieba
3
#26
Jolanta Klemberg-Sapieha
3
#26
Kim L. Johnson
3
#26
Ludvik Martinu
3
#26
Markus Duelli
3
#26
Nada A. O'Brien
3
#26
Paul G. Coombs
3
#26
Richard James Ryall
3
#26
Robert W. Adair
3
#26
Robert E. Hahn
3
#26
Robert E. Klinger
3
#26
Thomas H. Allen
3
#43
Andrew T. Taylor
2
#43
Blain J. Hendrix
2
#43
Christopher W. Lantman
2
#43
Craig Van Horn
2
#43
Donald M. Friedrich
2
#43
Eric R. Dickey
2
#43
Eugene A. Eufusia
2
#43
Glenn Yamamoto
2
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