Glass Patent Leaders 2021 | Patent Leaderboard

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Patents per Year

Top Inventors

Rank ↑	Inventor ↕	Patents ↕	Primary Company ↕
1	Timothy Michael Gross	14	Corning Incorporated
2	Charlene Marie Smith	13	Corning Incorporated
3	Eiichi Uriu	9	Panasonic
#4	Hiroyuki Abe	9	Japan Display
#5	Tasuku Ishibashi	9	Panasonic
#6	Kazuya Hasegawa	8	Panasonic
#7	Ljerka Ukrainczyk	8	Corning Incorporated
#8	Masataka Nonaka	8	Panasonic
#9	Xiaoju Guo	8	Corning Incorporated
#10	Guangli Hu	7	Corning Incorporated
#11	Kazutaka Ono	7	Agc
#12	Qiang Fu	7	Corning Incorporated
#13	Rostislav Vatchev Roussev	7	Corning Incorporated
#14	Shandon Dee Hart	7	Corning Incorporated
#15	Adam James Ellison	6	Corning Incorporated
#16	Dana Craig Bookbinder	6	Corning Incorporated
#17	George Halsey Beall	6	Corning Incorporated
#18	Pushkar Tandon	6	Corning Incorporated
#19	Timothy James Kiczenski	6	Corning Incorporated
#20	Yuhui Jin	6	Corning Incorporated
#21	Haruhiko Ishikawa	5	Panasonic
#22	James Joseph Price	5	Corning Incorporated
#23	Matthew John Dejneka	5	Corning Incorporated
#24	Natesan Venkataraman	5	Corning Incorporated
#25	Takeshi Shimizu	5	Fujitsu Limited
#26	Geoffrey York Powers	4	Made In Space
#27	Gilbert De Angelis	4	Corning Incorporated
#28	Jan Clawson	4	Made In Space
#29	Joseph Michael Matusick	4	Corning Incorporated
#30	John Richard Ridge	4	Corning Incorporated
#31	Karl William Koch, III	4	Corning Incorporated
#32	Michael Snyder	4	Made In Space
#33	Nate Pickslay	4	Made In Space
#34	Noah Paul-Gin	4	Made In Space
#35	Pascale Oram	4	Corning Incorporated
#36	Robert Clark Moore	4	Corning Incorporated
#37	Robert Michael Morena	4	Corning Incorporated
#38	Robert Anthony Schaut	4	Corning Incorporated
#39	Robert White	4	Telcordia Technologies
#40	Sinue Gomez	4	Corning Incorporated
#41	Steven Bruce Dawes	4	Corning Incorporated
#42	Vitor Marino Schneider	4	Corning Incorporated
#43	Aize Li	3	Corning Incorporated
#44	Allan Mark Fredholm	3	Corning Incorporated
#45	Alexandra Lai Ching Kao Andrews Mitchell	3	Corning Incorporated
#46	Bruce Gardiner Aitken	3	Corning Incorporated
#47	Brian Lee Harper	3	Corning Incorporated
#48	Charles Andrew Paulson	3	Corning Incorporated
#49	Christian Ritzberger	3	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag
#50	Dae-Hoon Kwon	3	Lg Hausys
#51	David B. Nitschke	3	Glasstech
#52	David Posada-Pineda	3	Corning Incorporated
#53	Ellen Anne King	3	Corning Incorporated
#54	Evelin Weiss	3	Schott Ag
#55	Friedrich Siebers	3	Schott Ag
#56	Heather Debra Boek	3	Corning Incorporated
#57	Hyun-Woo You	3	Lg Hausys
#58	Izuru Kashima	3	Agc
#59	Jaymin Amin	3	Corning Incorporated
#60	James Andrew West	3	Corning Incorporated
#61	Jill Marie Hall	3	Corning Incorporated
#62	John Christopher Mauro	3	Corning Incorporated
#63	Keith Raymond Gaylo	3	Corning Incorporated
#64	Lewis Kirk Klingensmith	3	Corning Incorporated
#65	Matthias Bockmeyer	3	Schott Ag
#66	Masao Ozeki	3	Optrex
#67	Matthew S. Rogers	3	Apple
#68	Marcel Schweiger	3	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag
#69	Meike Schneider	3	Schott Ag
#70	Michael Thomas Gallagher	3	Corning Incorporated
#71	Michelle Diane Pierson-Stull	3	Corning Incorporated
#72	Nicholas Francis Borrelli	3	Corning Incorporated
#73	Oliver Hochrein	3	Schott Ag
#74	Peter Joseph Lezzi	3	Corning Incorporated
#75	Pengxiang Qian	3	Schott Glass Technologies (Suzhou) Co.
#76	Richard Michael Fiacco	3	Corning Incorporated
#77	Rohit Rai	3	Corning Incorporated
#78	Satoshi Kanasugi	3	Agc
#79	Satoshi OGAMI	3	Agc
#80	Simone Monika Ritter	3	Schott Ag
#81	Sung-Jin Park	3	Samsung
#82	Takayuki Kitamura	3	Fujikura
#83	Tatsuya Miyake	3	Hitachi
#84	Vladislav Yuryevich Golyatin	3	Corning Incorporated
#85	Wageesha Senaratne	3	Corning Incorporated
#86	Wolfram Höland	3	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag
#87	Youn-Ki Jun	3	Lg Hausys
#88	Youngseok Kim	3	Samsung
#89	Achim ZEICHNER	2	Saint-Gobain Glass France
#90	Andriy Kharchenko	2	Saint-Gobain Glass France
#91	Andrew Peter Kittleson	2	Corning Incorporated
#92	Andreas Ortner	2	Schott Ag
#93	Andreas Roters	2	Schott Ag
#94	Antonio Schiaffo	2	Prysmian S.P.A.
#95	Andrew V. Wagner	2	Vitro Flat Glass
#96	Arnaud Huignard	2	Saint-Gobain Glass France
#97	Arthur PALMANTIER	2	Saint-Gobain Glass France
#98	Atsuki SAITO	2	Nippon Electric Glass Co.
#99	Bo Xu	2	Here Global B.V.
#100	Bradley Frederick Bowden	2	Corning Incorporated

Top Companies

Rank ↑	Company ↕	Patents ↕
1	Corning Incorporated	136
2	Agc	31
3	Saint-Gobain Glass France	22
#4	Nippon Electric Glass Co.	18
#5	Schott Ag	16
#6	Samsung	10
#7	Panasonic	9
#8	Pilkington Group Limited	7
#9	Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited	6
#10	Agc Glass Europe	5
#11	Fujikura	5
#12	Guardian Glass	5
#13	Owens-Brockway Glass Container	5
#14	Saint-Gobain Isover	5
#15	Apple	4
#16	CNRS	4
#17	Furukawa Electric Co.	4
#18	Glasstech	4
#19	Johns Manville	4
#20	Made In Space	4
#21	Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.	4
#22	Sumitomo Electric Industries	4
#23	Cardinal Cg	3
#24	Central Glass Company, Limited	3
#25	Draka Comteq B.V.	3
#26	Ivoclar Vivadent Ag	3
#27	Lg Hausys	3
#28	Ohara	3
#29	Prysmian S.P.A.	3
#30	Schott Glass Technologies (Suzhou) Co.	3
#31	Sumitomo Metal Mining Co.	3
#32	US Navy	3
#33	Vitro Flat Glass	3
#34	LG	3
#35	3D Glass Solutions	2
#36	Aac Technologies Pte.	2
#37	Appotronics Corporation Limited	2
#38	Dennert Poraver Gmbh	2
#39	Dentsply Sirona	2
#40	Dsm Ip Assets B.V.	2
#41	Gerresheimer Bünde Gmbh	2
#42	Hass	2
#43	Heraeus Quarzglas	2
#44	Hitachi	2
#45	Jushi Group Co.	2
#46	Kcc Glass	2
#47	Koa Glass Co.	2
#48	Korea Photonics Technology Institute	2
#49	Nitto Boseki Co.	2
#50	Nkt Photonics A/S	2
#51	Ofs Fitel	2
#52	Owens Corning Intellectual Capital	2
#53	Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated	2
#54	Shenzhen Jingjiang Yunchuang Technology Co.	2
#55	Soonchunhyang University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation	2
#56	Unifrax I	2
#57	University Of Central Florida	2
#58	Vitro, S.A.B. De C.V.	2
#59	Canon	2
#60	3M	1
#61	Applied Materials	1
#62	Agc Vidros Do Brasil Ltda	1
#63	Agp America S.A.	1
#64	America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army	1
#65	Arkema France	1
#66	Asml Netherlands B.V.	1
#67	Avanstrate	1
#68	Bae Systems Plc	1
#69	Becton, Dickinson And	1
#70	C-Bond Systems	1
#71	Cdgm Glass Co.	1
#72	Chongqing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co.	1
#73	CEA	1
#74	Coorstek Kk	1
#75	Corning Laser Technologies Gmbh	1
#76	Corning Research & Development	1
#77	Dal-Tile	1
#78	Dundee Sustainable Technologies	1
#79	Electric Glass Fiber America	1
#80	Engie	1
#81	Entegris	1
#82	Eurokera	1
#83	Eurokera S.N.C.	1
#84	Furcifer	1
#85	Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co.	1
#86	General Atomics	1
#87	General Fusion	1
#88	Gerresheimer Regensburg Gmbh	1
#89	Gkn Aerospace Transparency Systems	1
#90	Hkc Corporation Limited	1
#91	Foxconn	1
#92	Hoya	1
#93	Industrial Control Development	1
#94	Inentec	1
#95	Inha University Research And Business Foundation	1
#96	Institució Catalana De Recerca I Estudis Avancats	1
#97	Institut Polytechnique De Bordeaux	1
#98	Ionics France	1
#99	James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics	1
#100	J-Fiber Gmbh	1

Glass Patent Leaders in 2021 2021

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