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3M
Rank (2016):
#62
of 28,424
Top 1%
1,260 inventors
630
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at 3M
2016
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Audrey A. Sherman
20
2
Marc Peuker
13
3
Encai Hao
12
#4
Michael A. Meis
12
#5
Andreas J. Boehm
11
#6
Angela L. Pan
11
#7
David M. Blomberg
10
#8
Douglas B. Gundel
10
#9
John A. Wheatley
10
#10
Kurt J. Halverson
10
#11
Cristin E. Moran
9
#12
Gary E. Dwyer
9
#13
Guruprasad Somasundaram
9
#14
Judd D. Olson
9
#15
Kevin R. Schaffer
9
#16
Larry R. Krepski
9
#17
Richard J. Moore
9
#18
Stephan A. Hawthorne
9
#19
David M. Mahli
8
#20
David B. Olson
8
#21
Diane R. Wolk
8
#22
Evan L. Schwartz
8
#23
Kannan Seshadri
8
#24
Olester Benson, Jr.
8
#25
Thomas W. Floyd
8
#26
William Blake Kolb
8
#27
Babu N. Gaddam
7
#28
Guy D. Joly
7
#29
Kevin M. Lewandowski
7
#30
Matthew T. Scholz
7
#31
Michael Benton Free
7
#32
Nicolas A. Echeverri
7
#33
Pontus Axelsson
7
#34
Ahmed S. Abuelyaman
6
#35
Ann R. Fornof
6
#36
Brenda M. Bonney
6
#37
Brant U. Kolb
6
#38
David G. Freier
6
#39
David R. Holm
6
#40
Douglas D. Fletcher
6
#41
Gary T. Boyd
6
#42
Jeffrey M. Maki
6
#43
Jerald K. Rasmussen
6
#44
Jeremy A. Schmoll
6
#45
Jimmie R. Baran, Jr.
6
#46
Kevin E. Kinzer
6
#47
Matt R. Branscomb
6
#48
Mark W. Schulz
6
#49
Michael Rotstein
6
#50
Michael L. Steiner
6
#51
Michael F. Weber
6
#52
Oscar Hemberg
6
#53
Robert L. Brott
6
#54
Stefan H. Gryska
6
#55
Sumita B. Mitra
6
#56
William A. Mittelstadt
6
#57
Billy L. Weaver
5
#58
Brock A. Hable
5
#59
Catherine A. Bothof
5
#60
Carl W. Raines, III
5
#61
Donald K. Larson
5
#62
Eric M. Moore
5
#63
Hsi Che Cheng
5
#64
Hui-Lin Wang
5
#65
Irina Hass
5
#66
Jay M. Jennen
5
#67
Jon P. Kragness
5
#68
Linda W. Suszko
5
#69
Manjiri T. Kshirsagar
5
#70
Mark J. Pellerite
5
#71
Martin B. Wolk
5
#72
Miguel A. Guerra
5
#73
Michael A. Haase
5
#74
Michael J. Sykora
5
#75
Michael S. Wendland
5
#76
Neal A. Rakow
5
#77
Pei-Chun Chang
5
#78
Pierre Legare
5
#79
Sandra K. Nowak
5
#80
Scott M. Tapio
5
#81
Serkan Yurt
5
#82
Stefan Eckstein
5
#83
Tao Liu
5
#84
Thomas R. Corrigan
5
#85
Timothy J. Hebrink
5
#86
Werner M. A. Grootaert
5
#87
Wendi J. Winkler
5
#88
William H. Moser
5
#89
Zai-Ming Qiu
5
#90
Alexander R. Mathews
4
#91
Alexander Walter
4
#92
Brian K. Nelson
4
#93
Charles F. Staley
4
#94
Christopher B. Walker, Jr.
4
#95
Clinton P. Waller, Jr.
4
#96
Craig D. Thompson
4
#97
David K. Cinader, Jr.
4
#98
David A. Ender
4
#99
Ding Wang
4
#100
Douglas E. Weiss
4