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3M
Rank (2017):
#55
of 29,974
Top 1%
1,379 inventors
673
Patents 2017
Top Inventors at 3M
2017
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Douglas B. Gundel
25
2
Andrew John Ouderkirk
18
3
Angela L. Pan
14
#4
Michael Benton Free
14
#5
Audrey A. Sherman
12
#6
Craig D. Thompson
12
#7
Michael F. Weber
12
#8
Klaus Hintzer
11
#9
Martin B. Wolk
11
#10
Mark W. Baldwin
10
#11
Mikhail L. Pekurovsky
10
#12
Stephen C. P. Joseph
10
#13
Andrew J. Ouderkirk
9
#14
Matthew D. Chaffee
9
#15
Zhisheng Yun
9
#16
David M. Blomberg
8
#17
David J. Prince
8
#18
Gregg A. Ambur
8
#19
Kevin R. Schaffer
8
#20
Kenneth L. Smith
8
#21
Mark J. Pellerite
8
#22
Matthew T. Scholz
8
#23
Mieczyslaw H. Mazurek
8
#24
Timothy L. Wong
8
#25
Erin A. McDowell
7
#26
Joseph D. Rule
7
#27
John A. Wheatley
7
#28
Michael A. Meis
7
#29
Olester Benson, Jr.
7
#30
Saujit Bandhu
7
#31
Sergey Lamansky
7
#32
Terry O. Collier
7
#33
Timothy J. Hebrink
7
#34
Timothy J. Nevitt
7
#35
Tilman C. Zipplies
7
#36
William W. Merrill
7
#37
Alan R. Dombrowski
6
#38
Ann R. Fornof
6
#39
Bernard O. Geaghan
6
#40
Dean R. Duffy
6
#41
Guruprasad Somasundaram
6
#42
Harald Kaspar
6
#43
Jerald K. Rasmussen
6
#44
Jessica L. Staude
6
#45
Judd D. Olson
6
#46
Kai H. Lochhaas
6
#47
Lawrence J. Ptasienski
6
#48
Leigh E. Wood
6
#49
Mahfuza B. Ali
6
#50
Matthew S. Cole
6
#51
Mark A. Peltier
6
#52
Mario A. Perez
6
#53
Matthew S. Stay
6
#54
Michael R. Berrigan
6
#55
Michael E. Hamerly
6
#56
Naiyong Jing
6
#57
Ravi Palaniswamy
6
#58
Scott M. Tapio
6
#59
Stefan H. Gryska
6
#60
Alejandro Aldrin A. Narag, II
5
#61
Anna M. Hegdahl
5
#62
Arokiaraj Jesudoss
5
#63
Babu N. Gaddam
5
#64
Brant U. Kolb
5
#65
David Scott Thompson
5
#66
Douglas S. Dunn
5
#67
Gary T. Boyd
5
#68
George W. Griesgraber
5
#69
Guy D. Joly
5
#70
Holger Hauptmann
5
#71
John P. Baetzold
5
#72
Kevin B. Newhouse
5
#73
Larry R. Krepski
5
#74
Luca D. Farioli Brioschi
5
#75
Luis V. Ramirez Chaidez
5
#76
Mark T. Anderson
5
#77
Matthew H. Frey
5
#78
Michael C. Palazzotto
5
#79
Robert F. Kamrath
5
#80
Rudolf J. Dams
5
#81
Ryan B. Prince
5
#82
Stephen A. Johnson
5
#83
Thomas J. Gilbert
5
#84
Thu-Van T. Tran
5
#85
Wendy L. Thompson
5
#86
William A. Mittelstadt
5
#87
Alexander J. Kugel
4
#88
Alexander R. Mathews
4
#89
Andrew R. Fox
4
#90
Bing Hao
4
#91
Bimal V. Thakkar
4
#92
Bruce E. Tait
4
#93
Charles F. Staley
4
#94
Clinton L. Jones
4
#95
Cori S. Apel
4
#96
David B. Olson
4
#97
Encai Hao
4
#98
Evan L. Schwartz
4
#99
Fong Liang Tan
4
#100
Gallus Schechner
4