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CPC H01K

Ranked by the PatentIndex Score — a 1–99 percentile within H01K · public-visibility date · generated 2026

Rising· last 2 yrs

Inventors whose newest H01K patents became public in the last 2 years — the current frontier

  1. 199Gary W. Schnuckle19 patents · 1,067 citations
  2. 289Douglas Patton18 patents · 920 citations
  3. 378Kaushik Rao3 patents · 1 citations
  4. 467Daniel Chou2 patents · 1 citations
  5. 556Munirah Mahyudin2 patents · 1 citations
  6. 644Sagir Kadiwala2 patents · 1 citations
  7. 733Shantanu Rajiv Gadgil2 patents · 1 citations
  8. 822Vincent Kirchhoff2 patents · 1 citations
  9. 911Yao-Hung Yang2 patents · 1 citations
  10. 101Yuanlong Li1 patents · 0 citations

Active· last 5 yrs

Sustained H01K output across the last 5 years

  1. 199Gary W. Schnuckle19 patents · 1,067 citations
  2. 296Douglas Patton18 patents · 920 citations
  3. 392Hisao Ikeda6 patents · 84 citations
  4. 488Hiroyuki Miyake6 patents · 84 citations
  5. 583Steven J. Altamura6 patents · 27 citations
  6. 679Liangliang Cao5 patents · 5 citations
  7. 775Lilei Su5 patents · 5 citations
  8. 871Mingyan Fu5 patents · 5 citations
  9. 967Hong W. Wong3 patents · 2 citations
  10. 1063Praveen Vishakantaiah3 patents · 2 citations
  11. 1158Zhiming Zhuang3 patents · 2 citations
  12. 1254Dingwei Liang3 patents · 1 citations
  13. 1350Ching-Fuh Lin2 patents · 6 citations
  14. 1446Guan-Wu Wang2 patents · 6 citations
  15. 1542Weiping Wang2 patents · 6 citations
  16. 1638Zlatko Aurelio Filipovic2 patents · 6 citations
  17. 1733Adam James Wang1 patents · 6 citations
  18. 1829Yi-Hung Chen1 patents · 6 citations
  19. 1925Kaushik Rao3 patents · 1 citations
  20. 2021Brian D. Groves2 patents · 2 citations
  21. 2117Jorge Mariano Leon2 patents · 2 citations
  22. 2213Daniel Chou2 patents · 1 citations
  23. 238Ivan Ermanoski2 patents · 1 citations
  24. 244Munirah Mahyudin2 patents · 1 citations
  25. 251Ryan Milcarek2 patents · 1 citations

All-time canon

Career PatentIndex Score in H01K

  1. 199David W. Baarman6 patents · 1,747 citations
  2. 296Gary W. Schnuckle19 patents · 1,067 citations
  3. 392Douglas Patton18 patents · 920 citations
  4. 488Scott W. Demarest5 patents · 581 citations
  5. 583Scott D. Walter5 patents · 581 citations
  6. 679John L. Janning6 patents · 201 citations
  7. 775Ronald L. Johnson14 patents · 265 citations
  8. 871Jeffrey J. Wolf4 patents · 485 citations
  9. 967Thomas G. Parham10 patents · 285 citations
  10. 1063Robert Joseph Gallegos12 patents · 205 citations
  11. 1158Roland Stark17 patents · 225 citations
  12. 1254Peter Helbig33 patents · 412 citations
  13. 1350Idriss Mansouri-Chafik Ruiz10 patents · 115 citations
  14. 1446Eric M. Colton6 patents · 86 citations
  15. 1542Howard Allen Wilson6 patents · 86 citations
  16. 1638Steven Simas Escobar6 patents · 86 citations
  17. 1733Yugen Patrick Lockhart6 patents · 86 citations
  18. 1829Hermann Steiner13 patents · 267 citations
  19. 1925Peter R. Gagnon20 patents · 308 citations
  20. 2021Samuel A. Johnson4 patents · 504 citations
  21. 2117Tsutomu Watanabe7 patents · 236 citations
  22. 2213Akira Kawakatsu10 patents · 186 citations
  23. 238George J. English10 patents · 188 citations
  24. 244Merle E. Morris16 patents · 227 citations
  25. 251Larry R. Fields9 patents · 157 citations
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