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3M
Rank (2019):
#63
of 32,327
Top 1%
1,428 inventors
677
Patents 2019
Top Inventors at 3M
2019
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Mark W. Baldwin
19
2
Megan E. Renner
16
3
Douglas B. Gundel
15
#4
Michael C. Mooney
15
#5
Andrew P. Bonifas
14
#6
Matthew D. Chaffee
14
#7
Michael Benton Free
14
#8
George W. Griesgraber
13
#9
Audrey A. Sherman
12
#10
Ronald D. Jesme
11
#11
Mikhail L. Pekurovsky
10
#12
Naiyong Jing
10
#13
Guruprasad Somasundaram
9
#14
John A. Wheatley
9
#15
Martin B. Wolk
9
#16
Myungchan Kang
9
#17
Terry L. Smith
9
#18
Thomas P. Hanschen
9
#19
Alexander R. Mathews
8
#20
Andrew J. Ouderkirk
8
#21
Erin A. McDowell
8
#22
James P. Endle
8
#23
Martin Berggren
8
#24
Robert J. Maki
8
#25
Steven J. Keipert
8
#26
William M. Lamanna
8
#27
Jacob T. Lusson
7
#28
Jerald K. Rasmussen
7
#29
Leigh E. Wood
7
#30
Matthew H. Frey
7
#31
Matthew S. Stay
7
#32
Nicholas T. Gabriel
7
#33
Ronald W. Ausen
7
#34
Shri Niwas
7
#35
Suresh S. Iyer
7
#36
Timothy L. Wong
7
#37
William J. Kopecky
7
#38
Aaron K. Nienaber
6
#39
Alonso M. Hernandez
6
#40
Andrew R. Fox
6
#41
Andrew John Ouderkirk
6
#42
Babu N. Gaddam
6
#43
David C. Raithel
6
#44
Dipankar Ghosh
6
#45
Eric M. Moore
6
#46
Jaewon Kim
6
#47
Lijun Zu
6
#48
Michael J. Bulinski
6
#49
Michael G. Costello
6
#50
Michael A. Haase
6
#51
Michael S. Wendland
6
#52
Moses M. David
6
#53
Thomas P. Klun
6
#54
Yongshang Lu
6
#55
Yu Yang
6
#56
Zhisheng Yun
6
#57
Andrew C. Anderson
5
#58
Ann M. Gilman
5
#59
Bernard O. Geaghan
5
#60
Brian J. Stankiewicz
5
#61
Chetan P. Jariwala
5
#62
Chaodi Li
5
#63
Craig D. Thompson
5
#64
Donald G. Peterson
5
#65
Evan J. Ribnick
5
#66
Gregg A. Ambur
5
#67
James P. DiZio
5
#68
Jesse D. Lund
5
#69
Jia Hu
5
#70
Joseph C. Carls
5
#71
Joon Chatterjee
5
#72
John C. Clark
5
#73
Joseph B. Eckel
5
#74
Kevin R. Schaffer
5
#75
Kim C. Sachs, Jr.
5
#76
Kiu-Yuen Tse
5
#77
Lauren K. Carlson
5
#78
Lloyd S. Vasilakes
5
#79
Marc A. Egeland
5
#80
Matthew W. Gorrell
5
#81
Manjiri T. Kshirsagar
5
#82
Michael D. Determan
5
#83
Michael A. Meis
5
#84
Nicholas A. Johnson
5
#85
Oskar Juhlin
5
#86
Ravishankar Sivalingam
5
#87
Rocky D. Edwards
5
#88
Ryan Patrick Simmers
5
#89
Saujit Bandhu
5
#90
Sarah L. Hagen
5
#91
Shawn C. Dodds
5
#92
Stefan H. Gryska
5
#93
Thomas J. Nelson
5
#94
Timothy J. Hebrink
5
#95
William F. Edmonds
5
#96
Zhigang Yu
5
#97
Adam D. Haag
4
#98
Adam J. Meuler
4
#99
Ann R. Fornof
4
#100
Baris Yalcin
4