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Visx, Incorporated
— 105 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#6,622
of
105,732
Top 7%
53
inventors
105
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2008
Bar chart with a peak of 14 patents in 2001.
peak 14
1991: 1 patents
1991
1992: 2 patents
1993: 4 patents
1993
1994: 2 patents
1996: 2 patents
1996
1997: 1 patents
1998: 6 patents
1998
1999: 4 patents
2000: 5 patents
2000
2001: 14 patents
2002: 6 patents
2002
2003: 12 patents
2004: 10 patents
2004
2005: 7 patents
2006: 12 patents
2006
2007: 10 patents
2008: 7 patents
2008
Top Inventors at Visx, Incorporated
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
53
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
John K. Shimmick
25
2
Charles R. Munnerlyn
20
3
Terrance N. Clapham
17
#4
Kingman Yee
14
#5
George Caudle
9
#5
Herrmann Glockler
9
#7
Seema Somani
8
#8
Dimitri Chernyak
7
#8
Vladimir Lemberg
7
#10
Erik Gross
6
#10
Guangming Dai
6
#12
Carl F. Knopp
5
#12
Francis A. L'Esperance, Jr.
5
#12
Jan Wysopal
5
#12
Jerzy Orkiszewski
5
#16
Charles E. Campbell
4
#16
Stephen J. Hinkson
4
#18
Alan R. McMillen
3
#18
Audrey Munnerlyn
3
#18
H. Alfred Sklar
3
#18
Jeffrey Jonathan Persoff
3
#18
Michael Persiantsev
3
#18
Richard A. Hofer
3
#18
Stephen J. Koons
3
#18
Stephen L. Trokel
3
#18
William D. Fountain
3
#18
William B. Telfair
3
#28
Brian Bliven
2
#28
Hanna J. Hoffman
2
#28
Ioan Oltean
2
#28
Jerome A. Legerton
2
#28
John Weberg
2
#28
Jonathan Wong
2
#28
Kenneth Greenberg
2
#28
Marc Odrich
2
#28
Michael Cowperthwaite
2
#37
Amy Keller
1
#37
Angelina Thompson
1
#37
Cary Spediacci
1
#37
David I. Cullumber
1
#37
David Turnquist
1
#37
Erik Scramaglia
1
#37
Gunter D. Niemeyer
1
#37
Henry Price
1
#37
Jason Watson
1
#37
Jeff Sobiech
1
#37
John Osborn
1
#37
Mark Arnoldussen
1
#37
Mark Brinkerhoff
1
#37
Paul R. Yoder, Jr.
1
1
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