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Top 4%
188 inventors
185
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Vickers
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Albin J. Niemiec
14
2
Lael B. Taplin
12
3
Rajamouli Gunda
11
#4
Melvin A. Rode
9
#5
Lowell D. Hansen
8
#6
Richard S. Leemhuis
8
#7
Kurt R. Lonnemo
6
#8
Vinod K. Nanda
6
#9
James A. Kessler
5
#10
Robert C. Hodges
5
#11
Francis H. Smith
4
#12
Henry D. Taylor
4
#13
James V. Bloomquist
4
#14
Michael R. McCarty
4
#15
Peter Tovey
4
#16
Robert H. Breeden
4
#17
Roy T. Burgess
4
#18
Ronald B. Walters
4
#19
Allen P. Gates
4
#20
Jean J. Schweitzer
3
#21
John Schmid
3
#22
Larry O. Ezell
3
#23
Leslie M. Claar
3
#24
Leslie E. Lawson
3
#25
Paul Michael Smith
3
#26
Ronald E. Chipp
3
#27
Ronald R. Siegrist
3
#28
Albert Blatter
3
#29
Bruno Stillhard
2
#30
Calman S. Sagady
2
#31
Clive J. Burchett
2
#32
Dan Alexander
2
#33
Douglas G. Snow
2
#34
Frank Herta
2
#35
Gene Y. Wen
2
#36
Geoffrey A Wilkin
2
#37
Gregory P. Campau
2
#38
Graham T. Relf
2
#39
Jeffrey P Cherry
2
#40
John N. Batie
2
#41
John A. Hammond
2
#42
John A. Miller
2
#43
John A. O'Brien
2
#44
John F. Taplin
2
#45
Louis J. Cardinale
2
#46
Otto P. Langosch
2
#47
Paul H. Nielsen
2
#48
Raymond P. Lambeck
2
#49
Reed H. Kennard
2
#50
Richard J. Kotch
2
#51
Ronald A. Aspinwall
2
#52
Robert E. Davis
2
#53
Ronald B. Schweiger
2
#54
Robert W. Stephan
2
#55
Robert W. Stephens
2
#56
Roy H. Taylor
2
#57
Stephen Showalter
2
#58
Thomas L. Edwards
2
#59
Thomas D. Williams
2
#60
Umesh Gupta
2
#61
Xudong Yu
2
#62
Allan B. Owen
2
#63
Arthur H. Delmege
2
#64
Barry D. Suelter
1
#65
Bernd Bender
1
#66
Christopher V. Withers
1
#67
Constantine Kosarzecki
1
#68
David T. Delpy
1
#69
David M. Farmer
1
#70
David A. Gawler
1
#71
David E. Murray
1
#72
David K. Nees
1
#73
Dawood Parker
1
#74
Dave Swartz
1
#75
Derek S. Moore
1
#76
Douglas M. Durant
1
#77
Fred H. Phillips
1
#78
Frank Edward Smith
1
#79
George P. Birch
1
#80
Gerald A. Gyomory
1
#81
George A. McConnell
1
#82
George M. Russell
1
#83
Gerald G. Swiatlowski
1
#84
Harry Johnson
1
#85
Hans-Gebhard Krines
1
#86
Harry C. Moon, Jr.
1
#87
Hans-Jurgen Muller
1
#88
Harry J. Nowicki
1
#89
Holger T. Sommer
1
#90
Hugo Blochlinger
1
#91
J. Richard Hurley
1
#92
James L. Horan
1
#93
James R. Krietemeyer
1
#94
James R. Thompson
1
#95
Jeremy R. Burch
1
#96
Jia-Shou WANG
1
#97
John W. Curnow
1
#98
Joseph M. Habib
1
#99
John Jamieson
1
#100
John Keir
1