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Merck
Merck
— 349 Patents in 2016
Rank
(2016):
#107
of
28,424
Top 1%
1,063
inventors
349
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at Merck
2016
Showing
1–50
of
1,063
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Andrew Stamford
16
2
Philipp Stoessel
15
3
Jack D. Scott
14
#4
Amir Hossain Parham
12
#4
Christof Pflumm
12
#4
Tesfaye Biftu
12
#7
Arne Buesing
11
#7
Holger Heil
11
#7
Jared N. Cumming
11
#7
Junyou Pan
11
#11
Dieter Dorsch
9
#11
Rémi Manouk Anémian
9
#13
Anandan Palani
8
#13
Niels Schulte
8
#13
Scott D. Kuduk
8
#13
Steven Tierney
8
#13
Zhicai Wu
8
#18
Alan B. Northrup
7
#18
Andreas Goutopoulos
7
#18
Nicolas Blouin
7
#18
Oliver Schadt
7
#18
Qun Dang
7
#18
William Mitchell
7
#24
Andrew M. Haidle
6
#24
Andreas Taugerbeck
6
#24
Aurélie Ludemann
6
#24
Bayard R. Huck
6
#24
Casey Cameron McComas
6
#24
Changsheng Wang
6
#24
Dominik Joosten
6
#24
Dong Xiao
6
#24
Eric J. Gilbert
6
#24
Frank Stieber
6
#24
Ian M. Bell
6
#24
John Michael Ellis
6
#24
Joseph A. Kozlowski
6
#24
Matthew Christopher
6
#24
Ravi Nargund
6
#24
Thomas S. Reger
6
#24
Xing Dai
6
#24
Xuanjia Peng
6
#42
Clare London
5
#42
Detlef Pauluth
5
#42
Elvira Montenegro
5
#42
Esther Breuning
5
#42
Hao Wu
5
#42
Hong Liu
5
#42
Hongjun Zhang
5
#42
Hubert Spreitzer
5
#42
Joachim Kaiser
5
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