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General Motors
General Motors
— 1,596 Patents in 2019
Rank
(2019):
#22
of
32,247
Top 1%
2,119
inventors
1,596
Patents 2019
Top Inventors at General Motors
2019
Showing
1–50
of
2,119
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Igal Bilik
29
2
Carl J. Zipfel
28
3
Chandra S. Namuduri
25
#4
Farzad Samie
22
#4
Robin Krieg
22
#6
Guy W. Whitla
21
#6
Timothy P. Kozub
21
#8
Derek F. Lahr
18
#8
Donald K. Grimm
18
#10
Chunhao J. Lee
17
#10
Lei Hao
17
#10
Mei Cai
17
#10
Oded Bialer
17
#10
Thomas W. Nehl
17
#15
Dillon R. Blanski
16
#15
Dongxu Li
16
#15
Hamid G. Kia
16
#18
Blair E. Carlson
15
#18
Brian Malczewski
15
#18
Fan Bai
15
#18
Jawook Koo
15
#18
Joshua L. Thurber
15
#18
Timothy J. Talty
15
#24
Brian M. Izard
14
#24
Therese A. Pinazzo
14
#26
Bregt Ectors
13
#26
Dongkyu Kim
13
#26
Jesung Ahn
13
#26
Michael A. Smith
13
#26
Siguang Xu
13
#26
Suresh Gopalakrishnan
13
#26
Sungjin A. Yong
13
#33
David R. Sigler
12
#33
Hyok Jae Song
12
#33
John P. Mack
12
#33
Liang Xi
12
#33
Mark W. Verbrugge
12
#33
Panayiotis J. Karras
12
#33
Xi Yang
12
#40
Aaron D. Riggs
11
#40
Alexander Pokrass
11
#40
Anil K. Sachdev
11
#40
Duane S. Carper
11
#40
Henri Kavaja
11
#40
James H. Schaffner
11
#40
Shuqing Zeng
11
#40
Yue Wang
11
#48
Brian J. Koch
10
#48
Brian J. Smith
10
#48
Eray Yasan
10
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