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Cologne, DE 2020

453 patents  ·  292 inventors

Ranked #329 of 44,574 cities Top 1%

Cologne, DE ranks #329 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 453 patents from 292 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cologne, DE include Bayer Cropscience, Ford, Vorwerk & Co. Interholding Gmbh.

Showing 1–50 of 292 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kerstin Ilg Bayer Cropscience 18
2 Jordan Demkiw Ford 13
3 Claudio Messale Ford 9
3 Gerhard Isenberg Vorwerk & Co. Interholding Gmbh 9
#5 Daniel Rivas Barragan Intel 8
#6 Uta Post Birkenstock Sales Gmbh 7
#7 Tobias Schulz Ineos Styrolution Group Gmbh 6
#7 Axel Klatt Deutsche Telekom Ag 6
#9 Jan Mehring Ford 5
#9 Daniel Wetzig Inficon Ag 5
#11 Istvan Somogyvari Ford 4
#11 Christian Causemann Ford 4
#11 Silvio Decker Inficon Ag 4
#11 Xenia Rübenach — 4
#15 Frank EISENTRAEGER Ineos Styrolution Group Gmbh 3
#15 Peter Heyl Hanon Systems 3
#15 Thilo Schmidt Zf Friedrichshafen Ag 3
#15 Gernot Jaeger Covestro Deutschland Ag 3
#15 Juergen Schultheiss Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy 3
#15 Dieter Morszeck Rimowa Gmbh 3
#15 Luca Scaccabarozzi GE 3
#15 Björn Labitzke Qiagen Gmbh 3
#15 Albert Breuer Ford 3
#15 Dietmar Fischer Ford 3
#25 Jason W. J. Kennedy Bayer Cropscience 2
#25 Lucian Lippok Ford 2
#25 Martin Sicken Clariant Finance (Bvi) Limited 2
#25 Ahmet Cinar Ford 2
#25 Robert Spahl Ford 2
#25 Kai Hirsch Unger Marketing International 2
#25 Hinrich Abken Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. Kg 2
#25 Franz Beggel Covestro Deutschland Ag 2
#25 Mareike Dartmann — 2
#25 Elisabeth ARKENAU-MARIC Grünenthal Gmbh 2
#25 Mathias Gehrmann Behringwerke 2
#25 Marco Töller Kirchhoff Automotive Deutschland Gmbh 2
#25 Martin Adamczewski Bayer Cropscience 2
#25 Harald Stoffels Ford 2
#25 Matthias Erhard Schwabe GE 2
#25 Guido Weitkus Ford 2
#25 Daniel Rivas Barragan — 2
#25 Bernhard Ollier Dana Canada 2
#25 Daniel Hahnenberg Ford 2
#25 Antonio Midolo Covestro Deutschland Ag 2
#25 Tobias Ricke Ford 2
#25 Krystian Dylong Ford 2
#25 Lukas Maksym Basf Se 2
#25 Jochen Puchalla-König Inficon Ag 2
#25 Amko Leenarts Ford 2
#25 Sebastian Stauff Ford 2

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