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Stanford University
Stanford University
— 4,417 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#187
of
106,120
Top 1%
5,481
inventors
4,417
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Stanford University
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
5,481
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Irving L. Weissman
130
2
Michel J. F. Digonnet
130
3
Karl Deisseroth
107
#4
Gordon S. Kino
98
#5
Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub
78
#6
Zhenan Bao
68
#7
John M. Pauly
76
#8
Shanhui Fan
62
#8
Friedrich B. Prinz
62
#10
Olav Solgaard
61
#11
Stephen R. Quake
58
#12
Herbert J. Shaw
59
#13
Garry P. Nolan
48
#14
Daria Mochly-Rosen
52
#14
Mark A. Kay
46
#16
Ravindra Majeti
43
#17
Norbert J. Pelc
49
#18
Juan G. Santiago
44
#18
Sanjiv S. Gambhir
40
#20
Hongjie Dai
39
#20
Richard N. Zare
47
#22
Kenan Christopher Garcia
38
#23
Brian Kobilka
37
#23
Samuel Strober
37
#25
Daniel H. Kim
34
#25
Daniel V. Palanker
36
#27
Jennifer R. Cochran
33
#27
Ronald W. Davis
40
#27
Chaitan Khosla
34
#30
Aaron Michael Ring
32
#30
Ada Shuk Yan Poon
32
#30
Feng Zhang
32
#33
James R. Swartz
31
#33
Shreyas S. Vasanawala
33
#35
Edgar G. Engleman
33
#35
Martin M. Fejer
34
#37
Mark A. Horowitz
30
#37
Shan X. Wang
29
#37
Brian A. Hargreaves
31
#37
Robert L. Byer
33
#41
Mark L. Brongersma
31
#42
John Cooke
38
#42
Lawrence Steinman
30
#44
Craig S. Levin
26
#44
Jens-Peter Volkmer
26
#46
Kipp Andrew Weiskopf
25
#46
Lei Xing
25
#46
Robert Lowsky
25
#49
David A. B. Miller
24
#49
Mark R. Cutkosky
25
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