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Visx, Incorporated — 105 Patents

Rank (All Time): #6,622 of 105,732Top 7%
53 inventors
105 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 14 patents in 2001.peak 141991: 1 patents19911992: 2 patents1993: 4 patents19931994: 2 patents1996: 2 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 6 patents19981999: 4 patents2000: 5 patents20002001: 14 patents2002: 6 patents20022003: 12 patents2004: 10 patents20042005: 7 patents2006: 12 patents20062007: 10 patents2008: 7 patents2008

Top Inventors at Visx, Incorporated All Time

Showing 1–50 of 53 inventors

RankNamePatents
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

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