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Rudolph Technologies
— 114 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#6,356
of
105,917
Top 7%
136
inventors
114
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2020
Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2009.
peak 12
2001: 1 patents
2001
2003: 3 patents
2004: 1 patents
2004
2005: 3 patents
2006: 5 patents
2006
2007: 9 patents
2008: 8 patents
2008
2009: 12 patents
2010: 12 patents
2010
2011: 5 patents
2012: 9 patents
2012
2013: 8 patents
2014: 7 patents
2014
2015: 3 patents
2016: 8 patents
2016
2017: 11 patents
2018: 4 patents
2018
2019: 3 patents
2020: 2 patents
2020
Top Inventors at Rudolph Technologies
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
136
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
John T. Strom
12
2
Cory Watkins
10
2
Mark Harless
10
#4
Michael Kotelyanskii
9
#5
Christopher Morath
8
#6
Ajay Pai
7
#6
Robert Gregory Wolf
7
#6
Tuan D. Le
7
#9
Kevin Barr
6
#9
Raymond Kraft
6
#9
Robin Mair
6
#9
Troy Palm
6
#13
Matthew LaBerge
5
#13
Priya Mukundhan
5
#15
David L. Grant
4
#15
David S. Marx
4
#15
David Vaughnn
4
#15
Jonathan B. Buckheit
4
#15
Kenneth Durden
4
#15
Manjusha Mehendale
4
#15
Weidong Wang
4
#15
Youling Lin
4
#23
Antony Ravi Philip
3
#23
Brian Delsey
3
#23
Chetan Suresh
3
#23
Christopher Voges
3
#23
Eric Endres
3
#23
Greg Olmstead
3
#23
Guray Tas
3
#23
J. Casey Donaher
3
#23
Jeffrey O'Dell
3
#23
John Thornell
3
#23
Michael Colgan
3
#23
Michael A. Grant
3
#23
Patrick Simpkins
3
#23
Pat Simpkins
3
#23
Ralph P. Sowden
3
#23
Thomas Verburgt
3
#23
Wei Zhou
3
#23
Willard Charles Raymond
3
#41
Andrey MonJoseph
2
#41
Christian Kuwasaki
2
#41
Christopher McLaughlin
2
#41
Craig R. Simpson
2
#41
David W. Herod
2
#41
Daewon Kwon
2
#41
David E. Reich
2
#41
Donald B. Snow
2
#41
Emily Nordick
2
#41
Falai Li
2
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