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Whirlpool
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Whirlpool
— 323 Patents in 2016
Rank
(2016):
#112
of
28,333
Top 1%
513
inventors
323
Patents 2016
Top Inventors at Whirlpool
2016
Showing
1–50
of
513
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
John W. McConnell
36
2
Jessica R. McConnell
19
3
Michael S. Seeley
17
#4
Patrick J. Schiavone
14
#5
Patrick J. Boarman
14
#6
ZhaoYi Yin
14
#7
Kelly E. Roche
14
#8
Daniel H. Quinlan
13
#9
Leif A. Norland
12
#10
Samuel B. Breneman
12
#11
Guolian Wu
12
#12
Farhad Ashrafzadeh
11
#13
Steven J. Kuehl
11
#14
Seth E. Bixby
11
#15
Dean A. Martin
11
#16
Richard K. Gresens
11
#17
Chad J. Rotter
11
#18
Rodney M. Welch
10
#19
Wenkai Wu
9
#20
Nihat O. Cur
9
#21
Scott W. Leimkuehler
8
#22
James P. Carow
8
#23
Bill J. Koons
8
#24
Mark S. Feddema
7
#25
Robert L. Wetekamp
7
#26
Thomas E. Gose
7
#27
Douglas D. Leclear
7
#28
Ameresh B. Viswanathan
7
#29
Tim L. Coulter
7
#30
Michael P. Conti
7
#31
Steven G. Herndon
7
#32
Brent A. Kramer
7
#33
Kyle B. Van Meter
7
#34
Kevin Lee Noel
7
#35
David Allen Stauffer
7
#36
James H. Jenkins, Jr.
7
#37
Lester J. Ott
7
#38
Ron S. Paulsen
7
#39
Alvin V. Miller
7
#40
Mauro M. Oliveira
7
#41
Alan M. Welch
7
#42
Brian K. Culley
6
#43
Karl David McAllister
6
#44
Brandon T. Mock
6
#45
Blayne C. Smith
6
#46
Andrew D. Litch
6
#47
Mark E. Thomas
6
#48
Mark M. Senninger
6
#49
Gregory Gene Hortin
6
#50
Michael A. Kahwaji
6
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