Glass Patent Leaders 2017 | Patent Leaderboard

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Patents per Year

Top Inventors

Rank ↑	Inventor ↕	Patents ↕	Primary Company ↕
1	Dana Craig Bookbinder	12	Corning Incorporated
2	Aaron Morgan Huber	10	Johns Manville
3	Adam James Ellison	10	Corning Incorporated
#4	Charlene Marie Smith	10	Corning Incorporated
#5	Pushkar Tandon	10	Corning Incorporated
#6	John Christopher Mauro	9	Corning Incorporated
#7	Matthew John Dejneka	9	Corning Incorporated
#8	Timothy Michael Gross	9	Corning Incorporated
#9	George Halsey Beall	8	Corning Incorporated
#10	Marcus Frank	8	Guardian Industries
#11	Muhammad Imran	8	Guardian Industries
#12	Richard Blacker	8	Guardian Industries
#13	Stephan Lvovich Logunov	8	Corning Incorporated
#14	Jean-Marc Lemmer	7	Guardian Industries
#15	Nicholas Francis Borrelli	7	Corning Incorporated
#16	Qiang Fu	7	Corning Incorporated
#17	Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov	6	Corning Incorporated
#18	Ljerka Ukrainczyk	6	Corning Incorporated
#19	Mark William Charbonneau	6	Johns Manville
#20	Robert Michael Morena	6	Corning Incorporated
#21	Sergio Tsuda	6	Corning Incorporated
#22	Allan Mark Fredholm	5	Corning Incorporated
#23	Albert Roth Nieber	5	Corning Incorporated
#24	Bruce Gardiner Aitken	5	Corning Incorporated
#25	Jaymin Amin	5	Corning Incorporated
#26	Jeffrey M. Shock	5	Johns Manville
#27	Sinue Gomez	5	Corning Incorporated
#28	Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux	5	Corning Incorporated
#29	Timothy James Kiczenski	5	Corning Incorporated
#30	Akio Koike	4	Asahi Glass Co.
#31	Bernd Disteldorf	4	Guardian Industries
#32	Brent Boyce	4	Guardian Glass
#33	Christian Ritzberger	4	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag
#34	Douglas A. Hofmann	4	Ocv Intellectual Capital
#35	Garrett Andrew Piech	4	Corning Incorporated
#36	Gertjan Krabshuis	4	Draka Comteq B.V.
#37	George E. Sakoske	4	Ferro
#38	Hong Li	4	Infineon Technologies Ag
#39	Igor Milicevic	4	Draka Comteq B.V.
#40	James William Brown	4	Corning Incorporated
#41	Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker	4	Draka Comteq B.V.
#42	Junji Kurachi	4	Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
#43	Kevin Lee Wasson	4	Corning Incorporated
#44	Laurent Joubaud	4	Corning Incorporated
#45	Liming Wang	4	Corning Incorporated
#46	Mark Alejandro Quesada	4	Corning Incorporated
#47	Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen	4	Draka Comteq B.V.
#48	Melinda Ann Drake	4	Corning Incorporated
#49	Ming-Jun Li	4	Corning Incorporated
#50	Naotoshi Inayama	4	Nippon Electric Glass Co.
#51	Peter B. McGinnis	4	Ocv Intellectual Capital
#52	Rostislav Vatchev Roussev	4	Corning Incorporated
#53	Robert Anthony Schaut	4	Corning Incorporated
#54	Robert Stephen Wagner	4	Corning Incorporated
#55	Sasha Marjanovic	4	Corning Incorporated
#56	Seiki Ohara	4	Asahi Glass Co.
#57	Shandon Dee Hart	4	Corning Incorporated
#58	Steven Edward DeMartino	4	Corning Incorporated
#59	Steven Alvin Tietje	4	Corning Incorporated
#60	Takashi Yamazaki	4	Hitachi
#61	Tomohiro Ishihara	4	Fujitsu Limited
#62	Wolfram Höland	4	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag
#63	Yasuhiro Fujiwara	4	Hoya
#64	Yan Zhao	4	HP
#65	Anton Dietrich	3	Centre Luxembourgeois De Recherches Pour Le Verre Et La Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.)
#66	Benjamin Zain Hanson	3	Corning Incorporated
#67	Bo Kuang	3	Cdgm Glass Co.
#68	Bruce K. Zoitos	3	Unifrax I
#69	Carlos Alberto Duran	3	Corning Incorporated
#70	Chandan Kumar Saha	3	Corning Incorporated
#71	Daniel Robert Boughton	3	Corning Incorporated
#72	Dimitri Laurent	3	3B-Fibreglass Sprl
#73	Douglas Clippinger Allan	3	Corning Incorporated
#74	Gautam Narendra Kudva	3	Corning Incorporated
#75	Guangli Hu	3	Corning Incorporated
#76	Hirofumi TOKUNAGA	3	Agc
#77	Ja-Ock Koo	3	—
#78	Jin Ha Hwang	3	Sk Hynix
#79	Jong Seok Kim	3	LG
#80	Jonathan David Pesansky	3	Corning Incorporated
#81	John Christopher Thomas	3	Corning Incorporated
#82	Junko MIYASAKA	3	Asahi Glass Co.
#83	Kazutaka Ono	3	Agc
#84	Kenneth Edward Hrdina	3	Corning Incorporated
#85	Kenneth P. Rodbell	3	IBM
#86	Kei Yoshimura	3	Hitachi Chemical Company
#87	Kue Jung Choi	3	—
#88	Lewis Kirk Klingensmith	3	Corning Incorporated
#89	Lisa Anne Moore	3	Corning Incorporated
#90	Marie Jacqueline Monique Comte	3	Corning Incorporated
#91	Manabu Nishizawa	3	Sony
#92	Michael J. Andrejcak	3	Unifrax I
#93	Philippe Simon	3	3B-Fibreglass Sprl
#94	Prantik Mazumder	3	Corning Incorporated
#95	Qiang Huang	3	IBM
#96	Richard Orr Maschmeyer	3	Corning Incorporated
#97	Robert Carl Burket	3	Corning Incorporated
#98	Sezhian Annamalai	3	Corning Incorporated
#99	Shuhei Mikami	3	Hoya
#100	Shuhei Ogawa	3	Canon

Top Companies

Rank ↑	Company ↕	Patents ↕
1	Corning Incorporated	153
2	Asahi Glass Co.	20
3	Johns Manville	18
#4	Schott Ag	15
#5	Nippon Electric Glass Co.	14
#6	Saint-Gobain Glass France	13
#7	Hoya	12
#8	Guardian Glass	11
#9	Guardian Industries	11
#10	Heraeus Quarzglas	9
#11	Owens-Brockway Glass Container	9
#12	Sumitomo Electric Industries	8
#13	LG	8
#14	Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.	7
#15	Centre Luxembourgeois De Recherches Pour Le Verre Et La Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.)	6
#16	Ferro	6
#17	Agc Glass Europe	5
#18	Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited	5
#19	Ocv Intellectual Capital	5
#20	Ppg Industries Ohio	5
#21	Saint-Gobain Isover	5
#22	Vitro, S.A.B. De C.V.	5
#23	3B-Fibreglass Sprl	4
#24	Cdgm Glass Co.	4
#25	Draka Comteq B.V.	4
#26	Glasstech	4
#27	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag	4
#28	Luoyang Landglass Technology Co.	4
#29	Pilkington Group Limited	4
#30	Samsung	4
#31	Apple	3
#32	Avanstrate	3
#33	Electro Scientific Industries	3
#34	Emhart Glass S.A.	3
#35	Eurokera S.N.C.	3
#36	Fujikura	3
#37	Hitachi Chemical Company	3
#38	Foxconn	3
#39	Knauf Insulation	3
#40	Sumco	3
#41	Unifrax I	3
#42	IBM	3
#43	3M	2
#44	Arkema	2
#45	Central Glass Company, Limited	2
#46	CNRS	2
#47	Dentsply Sirona	2
#48	Eurokera	2
#49	Fraunhofer	2
#50	Furukawa Electric Co.	2
#51	Grenzebach Maschinenbau Gmbh	2
#52	Hass	2
#53	Knauf Insulation Sprl	2
#54	Lehigh University	2
#55	Namics	2
#56	Nichia	2
#57	Nihon Yamamura Glass Co.	2
#58	Nipro	2
#59	Owens Corning Intellectual Capital	2
#60	Pochet Du Courval	2
#61	Saxon Glass Technologies	2
#62	Tencent	2
#63	Tsinghua University	2
#64	Vidrio Plano De México, S.A. De C.V.	2
#65	View	2
#66	BOE	2
#67	Canon	2
#68	Panasonic	2
#69	Amazon	1
#70	Applied Materials	1
#71	Agency For Science, Technology And Research	1
#72	Agy Holding	1
#73	American Air Liquide	1
#74	Atotech Deutschland	1
#75	Audi Ag	1
#76	Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration	1
#77	Bando Kiko Co.	1
#78	Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co.	1
#79	Beteiligungen Sorg Gmbh & Co. Kg	1
#80	Brown University	1
#81	Cardinal Cg	1
#82	Co.Don Ag	1
#83	Corelase Oy	1
#84	Corning Museum Of Glass	1
#85	Corning Precision Materials Co.	1
#86	Corsam Technologies	1
#87	Dennert Poraver Gmbh	1
#88	Doctor Optics Se	1
#89	Everix	1
#90	Federal-Mogul Ignition Gmbh	1
#91	Fujifilm	1
#92	Fundação Universidade Federal De São Carlos	1
#93	Glaston Finland Oy	1
#94	Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.	1
#95	Heye International Gmbh	1
#96	Imerys Filtration Minerals	1
#97	Infineon Technologies Ag	1
#98	Inktec Co.	1
#99	Institució Catalana De Recerca I Estudis Avancats	1
#100	Integrated Dna Technologies	1

Glass Patent Leaders in 2017 2017

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