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Merck
Merck
— 412 Patents in 2017
Rank
(2017):
#99
of
29,939
Top 1%
1,208
inventors
412
Patents 2017
Top Inventors at Merck
2017
Showing
1–50
of
1,208
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Philipp Stoessel
18
1
Scott D. Kuduk
18
3
Teresa Mujica-Fernaud
15
#4
Amir Hossain Parham
14
#5
Arne Buesing
12
#5
Jason W. Skudlarek
12
#7
Christof Pflumm
11
#7
Elvira Montenegro
11
#7
Rémi Manouk Anémian
11
#10
Frank Voges
10
#10
Junyou Pan
10
#10
Steven Tierney
10
#10
Thomas Eberle
10
#14
Alexander Pasternak
9
#14
Atsutaka Manabe
9
#14
Holger Heil
9
#14
Owain Llyr Parri
9
#14
Volker Reiffenrath
9
#14
William Mitchell
9
#20
Christos Tsaklakidis
8
#20
Detlef Pauluth
8
#20
Esther Breuning
8
#20
Harold G. Selnick
8
#20
Haifeng Tang
8
#20
John MacLean
8
#20
Kenneth J. Barr
8
#20
Michael D. Altman
8
#20
Neville J. Anthony
8
#20
Shuzhi Dong
8
#30
Alan B. Northrup
7
#30
Catherine Jorand-Lebrun
7
#30
Christian Jasper
7
#30
Dominik Joosten
7
#30
Ernest J. McEachern
7
#30
Fa-Xiang Ding
7
#30
Jack D. Scott
7
#30
Jinlong Jiang
7
#30
Joseph A. Kozlowski
7
#30
Louise Diane Farrand
7
#30
Mansoor D'Lavari
7
#30
Michelle R. Machacek
7
#30
Nicolas Blouin
7
#30
Thomas J. Greshock
7
#30
Xiaoling Chen
7
#30
Xing Dai
7
#30
Yuanxi Zhou
7
#47
Andreas Goutopoulos
6
#47
Anna Hayer
6
#47
Blair T. Lapointe
6
#47
Brian M. Andresen
6
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