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3M
3M
— 658 Patents in 2018
Rank
(2018):
#55
of
30,013
Top 1%
1,353
inventors
658
Patents 2018
Top Inventors at 3M
2018
Showing
51–100
of
1,353
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
#34
Steven A. Neu
6
#34
Ta-Hua Yu
6
#53
Alan K. Nachtigal
5
#53
Andrew R. Fox
5
#53
Catherine A. Bothof
5
#53
Evan L. Schwartz
5
#53
Guy D. Joly
5
#53
Harald Kaspar
5
#53
Holger Hauptmann
5
#53
Jason D. Clapper
5
#53
Jayshree Seth
5
#53
Jeffrey A. Peterson
5
#53
Jitendra S. Rathore
5
#53
Kai H. Lochhaas
5
#53
Luca D. Farioli Brioschi
5
#53
Luis V. Ramirez Chaidez
5
#53
Mark T. Anderson
5
#53
Martin Berggren
5
#53
Miguel A. Guerra
5
#53
Michael E. Hamerly
5
#53
Mieczyslaw H. Mazurek
5
#53
Michael F. Weber
5
#53
Michael S. Wendland
5
#53
Muthu Sebastian
5
#53
Nicholas T. Gabriel
5
#53
Oskar Juhlin
5
#53
Paul B. Armstrong
5
#53
Ravi Palaniswamy
5
#53
Ran Tao
5
#53
Suresh S. Iyer
5
#53
Terry L. Smith
5
#53
Tilman C. Zipplies
5
#53
William W. Merrill
5
#53
Yin C. Quintero
5
#53
Yinghua Yang
5
#86
Andreas J. Boehm
4
#86
Andrew K. Hartzell
4
#86
Bradley D. Craig
4
#86
Brock A. Hable
4
#86
Catherine A. Leatherdale
4
#86
Charles A. Marttila
4
#86
Chin-Yee Ng
4
#86
Christoph Thalacker
4
#86
Craig R. Schardt
4
#86
Diane L. Emslander
4
#86
Donald K. Larson
4
#86
Dominic M. Travasso
4
#86
Dwight D. Erickson
4
#86
Evan Koon Lun Yuuji Hajime
4
#86
Garry W. Lachmansingh
4
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