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Whirlpool
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Whirlpool
— 370 Patents in 2018
Rank
(2018):
#102
of
29,927
Top 1%
601
inventors
370
Patents 2018
Top Inventors at Whirlpool
2018
Showing
1–50
of
601
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
John W. McConnell
16
2
Guolian Wu
14
3
Seth E. Bixby
14
#4
Steven J. Kuehl
14
#5
Patrick J. Boarman
10
#6
Nihat O. Cur
10
#7
Rodney M. Welch
10
#8
Antony M. Rappette
10
#9
Brian P. Janke
10
#10
James W. Kendall
9
#11
Richard K. Gresens
8
#12
Michael S. Seeley
8
#13
Patrick J. Schiavone
8
#14
Ameresh B. Viswanathan
8
#15
Axel Julio Ramm
7
#16
Mark S. Feddema
7
#17
Samuel B. Breneman
7
#18
Jordan R. Fountain
7
#19
Julia B. Burke
7
#20
Joel A. Luckman
7
#21
Neomar Giacomini
7
#22
Jason W. Tippetts
7
#23
Jessica R. McConnell
7
#24
Christopher A. Gregory
7
#25
Andrew C. Kubasiak
7
#26
Stephen L. Keres
6
#27
David J. Gushwa
6
#28
Brandon Satanek
6
#29
Todd J. Tunzi
6
#30
Alberto R. Gomes
6
#31
Zachary A. Lownds
6
#32
Donald E. Erickson
6
#33
Colleen M. Doyle
6
#34
Michael S. Hendrickson
6
#35
Kaustav Ghosh
6
#36
Yen-Hsi Lin
6
#37
Kristopher L. Delgado
6
#38
Erol Dogan Sumer
5
#39
Matthew P. Ebrom
5
#40
Anthony B. Welsh
5
#41
Daniel Chow
5
#42
Christoph J. Miller
5
#43
Joel Graham Van Faasen
5
#44
Wen Shi
5
#45
Eric J. Schuh
5
#46
Paul B. Allard
5
#47
Kevin M. Chase
5
#48
Gregory Gene Hortin
5
#49
Andrew D. Litch
5
#50
Michael C. Lah
5
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