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3M
Rank (2020):
#64
of 32,488
Top 1%
1,473 inventors
671
Patents 2020
Top Inventors at 3M
2020
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Klaus Hintzer
15
2
Alonso M. Hernandez
13
3
Andrew J. Ouderkirk
13
#4
Timothy L. Wong
13
#5
Erin A. McDowell
12
#6
Naiyong Jing
12
#7
Andrew John Ouderkirk
11
#8
Nicolas A. Echeverri
11
#9
Mikhail L. Pekurovsky
10
#10
Zhisheng Yun
10
#11
Audrey A. Sherman
9
#12
Denis Duchesne
9
#13
Douglas B. Gundel
9
#14
George W. Griesgraber
9
#15
Guy D. Joly
9
#16
Kai H. Lochhaas
9
#17
Ronald D. Jesme
9
#18
Tilman C. Zipplies
9
#19
Andrew P. Bonifas
8
#20
Jerald K. Rasmussen
8
#21
Michael Benton Free
8
#22
Steven J. Keipert
8
#23
Chetan P. Jariwala
7
#24
Encai Hao
7
#25
Gregg A. Ambur
7
#26
Jason D. Clapper
7
#27
Joel D. Oxman
7
#28
John A. Wheatley
7
#29
Jonathan D. Zook
7
#30
Kevin M. Lewandowski
7
#31
Matthew H. Frey
7
#32
Mark A. Roehrig
7
#33
Saujit Bandhu
7
#34
Terry L. Smith
7
#35
Thomas P. Klun
7
#36
YunLong Qiao
7
#37
Albert I. Everaerts
6
#38
Alexander R. Mathews
6
#39
Alan K. Nachtigal
6
#40
Brock A. Hable
6
#41
Eric C. Lobner
6
#42
Gary T. Boyd
6
#43
Georgiy Teverovskiy
6
#44
Guruprasad Somasundaram
6
#45
Harald Kaspar
6
#46
Helmar B. Mayr
6
#47
Joseph C. Spagnola
6
#48
Kiran S. Kanukurthy
6
#49
Kok Hoe Lee
6
#50
Malte Korten
6
#51
Manoj Nirmal
6
#52
Matthew S. Stay
6
#53
Michael J. Bulinski
6
#54
Michael G. Costello
6
#55
Michael A. Haase
6
#56
Michael A. Meis
6
#57
Michael L. Steiner
6
#58
Moses M. David
6
#59
Nicholas T. Gabriel
6
#60
Ramesh C. Kumar
6
#61
Steven T. Awiszus
6
#62
Stephen A. Johnson
6
#63
Stephen C. P. Joseph
6
#64
Susan E. DeMoss
6
#65
Suman K. Patel
6
#66
Aaron K. Nienaber
5
#67
Adam J. Meuler
5
#68
Alexandra N. Geller
5
#69
Babu N. Gaddam
5
#70
Bastian P. Kirchner
5
#71
Bing Hao
5
#72
Brian D. Gale
5
#73
Craig R. Schardt
5
#74
David S. Hays
5
#75
Daniel W. Hennen
5
#76
David J. Kinning
5
#77
Daniel J. Schmidt
5
#78
Gallus Schechner
5
#79
Gilles J. Benoit
5
#80
Jeffrey O. Emslander
5
#81
Jens Schrooten
5
#82
Joseph C. Carls
5
#83
Joseph B. Eckel
5
#84
Justin P. Meyer
5
#85
Kenneth L. Smith
5
#86
Kurt J. Halverson
5
#87
Maria A. Appeaning
5
#88
Matthew T. Scholz
5
#89
Michael Jahns
5
#90
Richard Y. Liu
5
#91
Ross E. Behling
5
#92
Sheng Ye
5
#93
Stephen B. Roscoe
5
#94
Steven P. Swanson
5
#95
Terence D. Neavin
5
#96
Thomas P. Hanschen
5
#97
Timothy J. Nevitt
5
#98
Tri D. Pham
5
#99
Van Cuong Bui
5
#100
Wensheng Xia
5