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Merck
Merck
Rank
(2019):
#134
of
32,327
Top 1%
961
inventors
314
Patents 2019
Top Inventors at Merck
2019
Showing
1–50
of
961
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Christof Pflumm
20
2
Philipp Stoessel
18
3
Amir Hossain Parham
16
#4
Anja Jatsch
13
#5
Teresa Mujica-Fernaud
12
#6
Jonas Valentin Kroeber
10
#6
Rocco Fortte
10
#6
Thomas Eberle
10
#9
Frank Voges
9
#10
Arne Buesing
8
#10
Dann Parker
8
#10
Elvira Montenegro
8
#10
Michael Junge
8
#14
Joachim Kaiser
7
#14
Peer Kirsch
7
#14
Sabine Schoen
7
#14
Ursula Patwal
7
#18
Andreas Beyer
6
#18
Blair T. Lapointe
6
#18
Constanze Brocke
6
#18
Dong-Ming Shen
6
#18
William Mitchell
6
#18
Yunfu Luo
6
#24
Brian A. Sherer
5
#24
Detlef Pauluth
5
#24
Deping Wang
5
#24
Harald Hirschmann
5
#24
Hongjun Zhang
5
#24
Jared N. Cumming
5
#24
Jiaqiang Cai
5
#24
Jianmin Fu
5
#24
Jinlong Jiang
5
#24
Kevin Adlem
5
#24
Lesley Liu-Bujalski
5
#24
Nicolas Blouin
5
#24
Owain Llyr Parri
5
#24
Rachel TUFFIN
5
#24
Reinhold Rueger
5
#24
Scott D. Kuduk
5
#24
Shimin Xu
5
#24
Theresa L. Johnson
5
#24
Ting Zhang
5
#43
Andreas Goutopoulos
4
#43
Andreas Taugerbeck
4
#43
Catherine Jorand-Lebrun
4
#43
Christopher Joseph Sinz
4
#43
Craig R. Gibeau
4
#43
Frank Stieber
4
#43
Graziano Archetti
4
#43
Hassan ARASI
4
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