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Thorlabs
Rank (All Time):
#7000
of 106,127
Top 7%
120 inventors
102
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Thorlabs
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Alex Ezra Cable
38
2
Vijaysekhar Jayaraman
17
3
James Jiang
14
#4
Jeffrey S. Brooker
14
#5
Benjamin Michael Potsaid
13
#6
Adalbert Bandemer
10
#7
Egbert Krause
9
#8
Dierck Hillmann
6
#9
Keith Dhese
6
#10
Brett D'Alessio
5
#11
Hongzhou Ma
5
#12
Eric Lieser
4
#13
Gereon Hüttmann
4
#14
Jens Peupelmann
4
#15
Jörn Wollenzin
4
#16
Kirk Gossage
4
#17
Peter Fendel
4
#18
Peter Koch
4
#19
Scott Barry
4
#20
Christopher Burgner
3
#21
Demis John
3
#22
Dieter Palme
3
#23
Gesa Lilith Franke
3
#24
Helge Sudkamp
3
#25
Jeffrey Erickson
3
#26
John Joseph Taranto
3
#27
Kevin Lascola
3
#28
Oliver Heckl
3
#29
Shane Patton
3
#30
Stephen Segal
3
#31
Bengt Kleman
2
#32
Duwayne R. Anderson
2
#33
Fredrick Towner
2
#34
Garrett Cole
2
#35
Georg Wolfgang Winkler
2
#36
Giorgio Giaretta
2
#37
Guobiao Wu
2
#38
Guocheng Xu
2
#39
Jakob Fellinger
2
#40
Johan Michael Larsson
2
#41
Laura Hinkel
2
#42
Lars Sandström
2
#43
Matthew S. Kirchner
2
#44
Mark Robson
2
#45
Michael E. Harju
2
#46
Paulo Chaves
2
#47
Peter Heim
2
#48
Renlong Gao
2
#49
Reza Salem
2
#50
Robin Eddington
2
#51
Ross Johnstone
2
#52
Robert M. Pafchek
2
#53
Ryan Priore
2
#54
Saeed Fathi
2
#55
Sterling Backus
2
#56
Timothy J. Howell
2
#57
William O. Radtke
2
#58
Ying Qin
2
#59
Ash Prabala
2
#60
Bill Donovan
1
#61
Bill Radtke
1
#62
Blace Jacobus
1
#63
Brian Mehl
1
#64
Brian Mitchell
1
#65
Cary Zhang
1
#66
Christoph Deutsch
1
#67
Christian Lührs
1
#68
Charles Taylor
1
#69
Chenchen Wan
1
#70
David Follman
1
#71
Dave Grimwade
1
#72
David E. Sproles
1
#73
David G. Winters
1
#74
Dongfeng Liu
1
#75
Eric Geoffrion
1
#76
Frank W. Armstrong
1
#77
Gregory A. Havenga
1
#78
Hendrik Spahr
1
#79
Ingolf Baumann
1
#80
James R. Easter
1
#81
Jason Mills
1
#82
Jeffery S. Brooker
1
#83
Jeffrey Orach
1
#84
John Cherny
1
#85
Johann Meissner
1
#86
Laura Wooldridge
1
#87
Lina Arauz
1
#88
Lichao Zhang
1
#89
Longfei Ye
1
#90
Lukas W. Perner
1
#91
Martin Parker
1
#92
Marshall H. Scott
1
#93
Michael John Dixon
1
#94
Michael Sauer
1
#95
Munkhtsooj Saikhanchimeg
1
#96
Noah Yuzo Toyonaga
1
#97
Poobalan Subramani
1
#98
Reginald Birngruber
1
#99
Sam Rubin
1
#100
Scott Domingue
1