Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Munich, DE ranks #1,054 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 126 patents from 50 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Munich, DE include Samsung, Apple, Sap Se.

Showing 1–50 of 50 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Sung Jin Kim Samsung 17
2 Robert Zaus Apple 8
3 Yang Peng Sap Se 6
3 Mathias Schmidt Apple 6
#5 Joachim Hofer Intel 4
#5 Wolfgang Werner Infineon Technologies Ag 4
#5 Johan Ulrich Lewin Jessen Lyft 4
#5 Andreas Wolf Apple 4
#5 Robert Fink Palantir Technologies 4
#5 Tobias Bocklet Intel 4
#5 Selim Benhimane Apple 4
#12 Martin Fischer Harman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh 3
#12 Kris Tomasson Nio Nextev Limited 3
#12 Lukasz Natkaniec Sonos 3
#12 Thomas Bauer Epcos Ag 3
#12 John-Daniel Buckingham BMW 3
#17 Stefan Eckart AMD 2
#17 Munir Nikolai Alexander Georges Intel 2
#17 Francesco Santoro Firmenich Sa 2
#17 Sebastian Lieberknecht Apple 2
#17 Honglei Miao Apple 2
#17 Wei-Lun Huang United Microelectronics 2
#17 Ulrich Huber Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security Gmbh 2
#17 Rainer Richter IBM 2
#17 Peter Alexander Tass Forschungszentrum Jülich Gmbh 2
#17 Martin Scholz HP 2
#17 Philippe Marchand Sequent Medical 2
#17 Stefan Misslinger Apple 2
#29 Lorenz Bohrer Volkswagen 1
#29 Michael Schardt Technische Universität München 1
#29 Juergen Bruegl BMW 1
#29 Hans Kruger Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 1
#29 Felix Hausch Stanford University 1
#29 Michael Vincent Scully BMW 1
#29 Paul Gareth Lloyd Rohde & Schwarz 1
#29 Werner Herrmann BMW 1
#29 Fabian Mueller 1
#29 Theodor W. Hansch Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Föderung Der Wissenschaften E.V. 1
#29 Sebastian Knorr Apple 1
#29 Joerg Grosse Breker Verification Systems 1
#29 Guenter Schmidt Definiens Gmbh 1
#29 Bernd Hubner Ganymed Pharmaceuticals Gmbh 1
#29 Kilian Roth Intel 1
#29 Peter F. Sollich Microsoft 1
#29 Gustavo Sonoda Google 1
#29 Holger Hampf S. C. Johnson & Son 1
#29 John Schoenbeck T-Mobile Usa 1
#29 Thomas Cotter 1
#29 Michael Herrler BMW 1
#29 Stephan Friedrich BMW 1

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