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Merck
Merck
— 286 Patents in 2020
Rank
(2020):
#141
of
32,409
Top 1%
959
inventors
286
Patents 2020
Top Inventors at Merck
2020
Showing
1–50
of
959
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Amir Hossain Parham
13
2
Anja Jatsch
12
3
Jonas Valentin Kroeber
11
3
Thomas Eberle
11
#5
Christof Pflumm
10
#6
Philipp Stoessel
9
#7
Holger Heil
8
#7
Jared N. Cumming
8
#7
Michael Junge
8
#10
Constanze Brocke
7
#10
Michael Wittek
7
#10
Peer Kirsch
7
#13
Benjamin Wesley Trotter
6
#13
Irina Martynova
6
#13
James P. Jewell
6
#13
Jongwon Lim
6
#13
John A. McCauley
6
#13
Michael D. Altman
6
#13
Ryan D. Otte
6
#13
Tobias Grossmann
6
#21
Amy Wood
5
#21
Andrew M. Haidle
5
#21
Atsutaka Manabe
5
#21
Dagmar Klass
5
#21
James Vigna
5
#21
John Cieciuch
5
#21
Joseph A. Kozlowski
5
#21
Kun Liu
5
#21
Mila Fischer
5
#21
Min Lu
5
#21
Tao Yu
5
#21
Timothy J. Henderson
5
#21
Wonsuk Chang
5
#34
Andreas Beyer
4
#34
Andrew Stamford
4
#34
Aurélie Ludemann
4
#34
Bin Hu
4
#34
Brian M. Andresen
4
#34
Brian A. Sherer
4
#34
Christian Jasper
4
#34
Dominik Joosten
4
#34
Elvira Montenegro
4
#34
Hongjun Zhang
4
#34
Jinglai Hao
4
#34
Joachim Kaiser
4
#34
Linda Liang
4
#34
Matthew L. Childers
4
#34
Melanie Klasen-Memmer
4
#34
Nadia Brugger
4
#34
Rachel TUFFIN
4
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