Top Inventors at Soraa Laser Diode All Time
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | James W. Raring | 158 |
| 2 | Melvin McLaurin | 61 |
| 3 | Paul Rudy | 57 |
| #4 | Po Shan Hsu | 37 |
| #5 | Alexander Sztein | 33 |
| #6 | Mathew C. Schmidt | 28 |
| #7 | Christiane Elsass | 21 |
| #8 | Eric Goutain | 20 |
| #9 | Hua Huang | 18 |
| #10 | Vlad Novotny | 15 |
| #11 | Yu-Chia Chang | 11 |
| #12 | Thiago P. Melo | 9 |
| #13 | Christiane Poblenz | 8 |
| #14 | Bryan Ellis | 7 |
| #15 | Nicholas J. Pfister | 7 |
| #16 | You-Da Lin | 7 |
| #17 | Daniel F. Feezell | 6 |
| #18 | Chendong Bai | 5 |
| #19 | Troy Trottier | 5 |
| #20 | Dan Steigerwald | 4 |
| #21 | Rajat Sharma | 4 |
| #22 | Nick Pfister | 3 |
| #23 | Benyamin Buller | 2 |
| #24 | Christiane Poblenz Elsass | 2 |
| #25 | Drew Felker | 2 |
| #26 | Steven P. DenBaars | 2 |
| #27 | Ben Yonkee | 1 |
| #28 | David Press | 1 |
| #29 | James Harrison | 1 |
| #30 | Kenneth John Thomson | 1 |
| #31 | Matt Schmidt | 1 |
| #32 | Matthew C. Schmidt | 1 |
| #33 | Michael Cantore | 1 |
| #34 | Nicholas Andrew Vickers | 1 |
| #35 | Phillip Skahan | 1 |
| #36 | Pierre Lamond | 1 |
| #37 | Qiyuan Wei | 1 |
| #38 | Rafael I. Aldaz | 1 |
| #39 | Richard T. Ogawa | 1 |
| #40 | Sang Ho Oh | 1 |
| #41 | Shuji Nakamura | 1 |
| #42 | Steve DenBaars | 1 |
| #43 | Sten Heikman | 1 |
| #44 | Vinod Khosla | 1 |
| #45 | Alexander Stzein | 1 |
| #46 | Andrew Felker | 1 |