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Ranked by the PatentIndex Score — a 1–99 percentile within B41L · public-visibility date · generated 2026

Rising· last 2 yrs

Inventors whose newest B41L patents became public in the last 2 years — the current frontier

  1. 199Kiyotaka Nakamura6 patents · 17 citations
  2. 293Patsy A. Mattero6 patents · 17 citations
  3. 387William A. Losiewicz7 patents · 6 citations
  4. 480James Lynch3 patents · 0 citations
  5. 573Kenneth J. King2 patents · 0 citations
  6. 667Ann M. Gilman1 patents · 0 citations
  7. 760Clinton J. Cook1 patents · 0 citations
  8. 853Denzil R Quick1 patents · 0 citations
  9. 947Hiroka Osano1 patents · 0 citations
  10. 1040Kevin T. Reddy1 patents · 0 citations
  11. 1133Matthew R.D. Smith1 patents · 0 citations
  12. 1227Matthew S. Stay1 patents · 0 citations
  13. 1320Mikhail L. Pekurovsky1 patents · 0 citations
  14. 1413Shawn C. Dodds1 patents · 0 citations
  15. 157Shun Sato1 patents · 0 citations
  16. 161Taku Watanabe1 patents · 0 citations

Active· last 5 yrs

Sustained B41L output across the last 5 years

  1. 199Kiyotaka Nakamura6 patents · 17 citations
  2. 296Patsy A. Mattero6 patents · 17 citations
  3. 392William A. Losiewicz7 patents · 6 citations
  4. 488Jon Phillip Van Wagoner3 patents · 1 citations
  5. 583Ryoichi Tanaka1 patents · 10 citations
  6. 679Taku Ishizawa1 patents · 10 citations
  7. 775Tadahiro Mizutani1 patents · 10 citations
  8. 871Toshiyuki Takahashi1 patents · 5 citations
  9. 967Yoshio Chigira1 patents · 5 citations
  10. 1063Taehong Kim4 patents · 0 citations
  11. 1158Kevin Lo3 patents · 1 citations
  12. 1254James Lynch3 patents · 0 citations
  13. 1350Akihiro Tsuno1 patents · 2 citations
  14. 1446Nagayasu Yoshida1 patents · 2 citations
  15. 1542Bruce C. Seaton2 patents · 0 citations
  16. 1638Joonghyun Kim2 patents · 0 citations
  17. 1733Joan N. Schopf2 patents · 0 citations
  18. 1829Scott A. Reid2 patents · 0 citations
  19. 1925Taejin Baek2 patents · 0 citations
  20. 2021Thomas C. Prentice2 patents · 0 citations
  21. 2117Wonkeun Lee2 patents · 0 citations
  22. 2213Wonic Tae2 patents · 0 citations
  23. 238Yuya Tanaka2 patents · 0 citations
  24. 244Matthew Raisanen3 patents · 0 citations
  25. 251Stephen Thomas Rohman3 patents · 0 citations

All-time canon

Career PatentIndex Score in B41L

  1. 199Mark Dotson6 patents · 325 citations
  2. 296Gary Doll5 patents · 243 citations
  3. 392Dale R. Shackle9 patents · 219 citations
  4. 488Gerald T. Davis8 patents · 188 citations
  5. 583Rajendra Mehta5 patents · 188 citations
  6. 679Takanori Hasegawa19 patents · 290 citations
  7. 775Hironobu Takasawa15 patents · 116 citations
  8. 871A. Dale Lakes4 patents · 185 citations
  9. 967Mitsuo Sato16 patents · 141 citations
  10. 1063Susumu Oshio5 patents · 130 citations
  11. 1158Mituru Takahashi15 patents · 111 citations
  12. 1254Yoshiharu Ohinata11 patents · 107 citations
  13. 1350Joseph A. Mccormick7 patents · 85 citations
  14. 1446Gerhart Schwab4 patents · 75 citations
  15. 1542Hideyuki Kagawa8 patents · 80 citations
  16. 1638Tomoya Otomo7 patents · 72 citations
  17. 1733Katsuro Motoe19 patents · 109 citations
  18. 1829Yoshikazu Hara16 patents · 114 citations
  19. 1925Hideo Negishi13 patents · 93 citations
  20. 2021Timothy A. Mertens3 patents · 281 citations
  21. 2117Sadanao Okuda7 patents · 78 citations
  22. 2213Hiroshi Hanzawa5 patents · 73 citations
  23. 238Yasuhiro Takahashi16 patents · 94 citations
  24. 244Hiroshi Kanno4 patents · 99 citations
  25. 251Manabu Wakamatsu5 patents · 42 citations
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