Glass Patent Leaders 2019 | Patent Leaderboard

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Patents per Year

Top Inventors

Rank ↑	Inventor ↕	Patents ↕	Primary Company ↕
1	Charlene Marie Smith	14	Corning Incorporated
2	Matthew John Dejneka	10	Corning Incorporated
3	Guorong Cao	9	Jushi Group Co.
#4	Guangli Hu	9	Corning Incorporated
#5	Lin Zhang	9	Jushi Group Co.
#6	Wenzhong Xing	9	Jushi Group Co.
#7	Dana Craig Bookbinder	8	Corning Incorporated
#8	Guijiang Gu	8	Jushi Group Co.
#9	Robert Michael Morena	8	Corning Incorporated
#10	Bernd Disteldorf	7	Guardian Industries
#11	Christian Ritzberger	7	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag
#12	John Christopher Mauro	7	Corning Incorporated
#13	Shandon Dee Hart	7	Corning Incorporated
#14	Wolfram Höland	7	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag
#15	George Halsey Beall	6	Corning Incorporated
#16	Natesan Venkataraman	6	Corning Incorporated
#17	Robert Stephen Wagner	6	Corning Incorporated
#18	Sinue Gomez	6	Corning Incorporated
#19	Thomas Lambricht	6	Agc Glass Europe
#20	Timothy Michael Gross	6	Corning Incorporated
#21	Aaron Morgan Huber	5	Johns Manville
#22	Adam James Ellison	5	Corning Incorporated
#23	Bruce Gardiner Aitken	5	Corning Incorporated
#24	Garrett Andrew Piech	5	Corning Incorporated
#25	Mark William Charbonneau	5	Johns Manville
#26	Marcel Schweiger	5	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag
#27	Ming-Jun Li	5	Corning Incorporated
#28	Muhammad Imran	5	Guardian Industries
#29	Philip J. Lingle	5	Guardian Industries
#30	Pushkar Tandon	5	Corning Incorporated
#31	Qiang Fu	5	Corning Incorporated
#32	Sasha Marjanovic	5	Corning Incorporated
#33	Scott Cooper	5	Owens-Brockway Glass Container
#34	Sergio Tsuda	5	Corning Incorporated
#35	Shusaku Akiba	5	Agc
#36	Steven Alvin Tietje	5	Corning Incorporated
#37	Takuya Aoyagi	5	Hitachi
#38	Takashi Naito	5	Hitachi
#39	Timothy James Kiczenski	5	Corning Incorporated
#40	Xiaoju Guo	5	Corning Incorporated
#41	Allan Mark Fredholm	4	Corning Incorporated
#42	Alexey Krasnov	4	Guardian Industries
#43	Albert Roth Nieber	4	Corning Incorporated
#44	Anton Dietrich	4	Centre Luxembourgeois De Recherches Pour Le Verre Et La Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.)
#45	Audrey Dogimont	4	Agc Glass Europe
#46	Bo Kuang	4	Cdgm Glass Co.
#47	Brent Boyce	4	Guardian Glass
#48	Chandan Kumar Saha	4	Corning Incorporated
#49	Frank Buellesfeld	4	Schott Ag
#50	Jesse Kohl	4	Corning Incorporated
#51	Marcus Frank	4	Guardian Industries
#52	Markus Rampf	4	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag
#53	Melinda Ann Drake	4	Corning Incorporated
#54	Paul Stephen Danielson	4	Corning Incorporated
#55	Robert Anthony Schaut	4	Corning Incorporated
#56	Seiki Ohara	4	Asahi Glass Co.
#57	Steven Edward DeMartino	4	Corning Incorporated
#58	Suguru Murayama	4	Agc
#59	Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux	4	Corning Incorporated
#60	Wei Sun	4	Lighting Science Group
#61	Yuqiang Zhang	4	Jushi Group Co.
#62	Zhongzhi Tang	4	Corning Incorporated
#63	Aline Degand	3	Agc Glass Europe
#64	Albert Patrick Faulkinbury	3	Johns Manville
#65	Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov	3	Corning Incorporated
#66	Bianca Schreder	3	Schott Ag
#67	Carol A. Click	3	Owens-Brockway Glass Container
#68	Christopher D. Prest	3	Apple
#69	Chunfeng Zhou	3	Corning Incorporated
#70	David B. Nitschke	3	Glasstech
#71	Daniel Schweigert	3	Guardian Glass
#72	Dean M. Nitschke	3	Glasstech
#73	Gaozhu Peng	3	Corning Incorporated
#74	Glen Bennett Cook	3	Corning Incorporated
#75	Guowen Ding	3	Intermolecular
#76	Heather Debra Boek	3	Corning Incorporated
#77	Herbert Lage	3	Centre Luxembourgeois De Recherches Pour Le Verre Et La Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.)
#78	Helmut Schillinger	3	Corning Incorporated
#79	Hong Li	3	Infineon Technologies Ag
#80	Irene Mona Peterson	3	Corning Incorporated
#81	Jean-Marc Lemmer	3	Guardian Industries
#82	John Wayne Baker	3	Johns Manville
#83	John Christopher Thomas	3	Corning Incorporated
#84	Kaveh Adib	3	Corning Incorporated
#85	Kochuparambil Deenamma Vargheese	3	Corning Incorporated
#86	Ljerka Ukrainczyk	3	Corning Incorporated
#87	Marc Dittmer	3	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag
#88	Masahiro Hayashi	3	Brother Kogyo
#89	Minh Huu Le	3	Intermolecular
#90	Michael Schwall	3	Schott Ag
#91	Nicholas Francis Borrelli	3	Corning Incorporated
#92	Nicolas Antoine Mercadier	3	Sage Electrochromics
#93	Olus Naili Boratav	3	Corning Incorporated
#94	Oliver Hochrein	3	Schott Ag
#95	Pascale Oram	3	Corning Incorporated
#96	Qing Li	3	Agc
#97	Rui Hong	3	BOE
#98	Santona Pal	3	Corning Incorporated
#99	Sezhian Annamalai	3	Corning Incorporated
#100	Stephan Lvovich Logunov	3	Corning Incorporated

Top Companies

Rank ↑	Company ↕	Patents ↕
1	Corning Incorporated	132
2	Agc	33
3	Schott Ag	31
#4	Guardian Glass	28
#5	Saint-Gobain Glass France	21
#6	Nippon Electric Glass Co.	18
#7	Johns Manville	13
#8	Guardian Europe S.A.R.L.	10
#9	Agc Glass Europe	9
#10	Cdgm Glass Co.	9
#11	Jushi Group Co.	9
#12	BOE	9
#13	Owens-Brockway Glass Container	8
#14	Heraeus Quarzglas	7
#15	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag	6
#16	Samsung	6
#17	Apple	5
#18	Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited	4
#19	Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.	4
#20	Arkema	3
#21	Ferro	3
#22	Fujikura	3
#23	Glasstech	3
#24	Hitachi	3
#25	Olympus	3
#26	Saint-Gobain Isover	3
#27	Unknown	3
#28	Canon	3
#29	3M	2
#30	Beijing Boe Display Technology Co.	2
#31	Brown University	2
#32	Corning Laser Technologies Gmbh	2
#33	Corning Precision Materials Co.	2
#34	Evonik Degussa Gmbh	2
#35	Fosbel	2
#36	Fraunhofer	2
#37	Glaston Finland Oy	2
#38	Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co.	2
#39	Heraeus Noblelight Gmbh	2
#40	Heraeus Quartz North America	2
#41	Heye International Gmbh	2
#42	Hitachi Chemical Company	2
#43	MIT	2
#44	Murata Manufacturing Co.	2
#45	Nikon	2
#46	Ocv Intellectual Capital	2
#47	Ohara	2
#48	Pilkington Group Limited	2
#49	Pochet Du Courval	2
#50	Ppg Industries Ohio	2
#51	Praxair Technology	2
#52	Sumitomo Electric Industries	2
#53	Vidrio Plano De México, S.A. De C.V.	2
#54	View	2
#55	Vitro Flat Glass	2
#56	LG	2
#57	Panasonic	2
#58	Agency For Science, Technology And Research	1
#59	Air Products And Chemicals	1
#60	Apogee Enterprises	1
#61	Arkema France	1
#62	Asi/Silica Machinery	1
#63	Beteiligungen Sorg Gmbh & Co. Kg	1
#64	Blh Technologies	1
#65	Bormioli Luigi S.P.A.	1
#66	Cardinal Cg	1
#67	Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh	1
#68	Carl Zeiss Vision International Gmbh	1
#69	CNRS	1
#70	China Jiliang University	1
#71	CEA	1
#72	Coorstek Kk	1
#73	Corsam Technologies	1
#74	Covestro Deutschland Ag	1
#75	Creator'S Stained Glass	1
#76	Degudent Gmbh	1
#77	Dell Products	1
#78	Dennert Poraver Gmbh	1
#79	Dentsply Sirona	1
#80	Dow Global Technologies	1
#81	Dowooinsys Co.	1
#82	D. Swarovski Kg	1
#83	Ehwa Diamond Industrial Co.	1
#84	Everix	1
#85	Ev Group E. Thallner Gmbh	1
#86	Fanuc	1
#87	Fujifilm	1
#88	Furcifer	1
#89	Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co.	1
#90	Gas Technology Institute	1
#91	Gentex	1
#92	Gerresheimer Glas Gmbh	1
#93	Gkn Aerospace Transparency Systems	1
#94	Goodrich	1
#95	Hefei Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co.	1
#96	Heraeus Noblelight America	1
#97	HP	1
#98	Foxconn	1
#99	Idemitsu Kosan Co.	1
#100	Ihi	1

Glass Patent Leaders in 2019 2019

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