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Cologne, DE 2016

341 patents  ·  187 inventors

Ranked #349 of 41,021 cities Top 1%

Cologne, DE ranks #349 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 341 patents from 187 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cologne, DE include Ford, Bayer Cropscience, Bayer Pharma.

Showing 1–50 of 187 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Claudio Messale Ford 17
2 Ernesto Rupar Ford 14
3 Arnd Voerste Bayer Cropscience 9
#4 Markus Follmann Bayer Pharma 7
#5 Axel Klatt Deutsche Telekom Ag 6
#5 Albert Breuer Ford 6
#5 Yasser Mohamed sayed Yacoub Ford 6
#5 Jörg Kirchhoff Lanxess International Sa 6
#5 Bernd Springer Bayer Cropscience 6
#5 Christoph Eggert Covestro Deutschland Ag 6
#11 Klaus Muellen Basf Se 5
#11 Thilo Schmidt Zf Friedrichshafen Ag 5
#11 Frank Janssen Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 5
#11 Uwe Pulver Ford 5
#11 Robert Spahl Ford 5
#16 Kerstin Ilg Bayer Cropscience 4
#16 Ursula Huchel Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 4
#18 Ali Akbar Burhanidust — 3
#18 Imre Somssich Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Föderung Der Wissenschaften E.V. 3
#18 Kay Hohenboeken Ford 3
#18 Bianca Seelig Basf Se 3
#18 Wolfgang Otschke Ford 3
#18 Katrin Asteman Heraeus Precious Metals 3
#18 Martin Sicken Clariant Finance (Bvi) Limited 3
#18 Christoph Guertler Covestro Deutschland Ag 3
#18 Simon Moritz Ericsson 3
#18 Axel Griesbeck Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 3
#18 Andreas Wilmen Bayer Pharma 3
#18 Amgad Salah Moussa Covestro Deutschland Ag 3
#18 Dieter Morszeck Rimowa Gmbh 3
#18 Jan Linsel Ford 3
#18 Christoph Kirsch Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Föderung Der Wissenschaften E.V. 3
#33 Thomas Jaetsch Bayer Healthcare 2
#33 Julia Parkot Jennewein Biotechnologie Gmbh 2
#33 Attila Benak Ford 2
#33 Birgit Wirtz The Procter & Gamble 2
#33 Andreas Fahl Andreas Fahl Medizintechnik-Vertrieb Gmbh 2
#33 Susanne Lisinski Saint-Gobain Glass France 2
#33 Andreas Heinze Lonza Cologne Gmbh 2
#33 Felix Girmscheid Hanon Systems 2
#33 Markus Koelsch Ford 2
#33 Andreas Schmitt Sap Ag 2
#33 Eckhard Wenz Bayer Materialscience Ag 2
#33 Christian Vorsmann Emitec Gesellschaft Fuer Emissionstechnologie Mbh 2
#33 Verena Dahl Evonik Operations Gmbh 2
#33 Matthias Riedrich Bayer Cropscience 2
#33 Andreas Boettcher Basf Se 2
#33 Bernd Heinbokel Carrier 2
#33 Peter Frieden Leybold-Heraeus Gmbh 2
#33 Jüergen Bos Ericsson 2

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