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3M
Rank (2021):
#72
of 31,507
Top 1%
1,276 inventors
524
Patents 2021
Top Inventors at 3M
2021
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Thomas P. Klun
14
2
Terry L. Smith
12
3
Michael A. Haase
10
#4
Joseph D. Rule
9
#5
Klaus Hintzer
9
#6
Ronald D. Jesme
9
#7
Andrew R. Fox
8
#8
Guy D. Joly
8
#9
Jennifer F. Schumacher
8
#10
Michael W. Kobe
8
#11
Michael S. Wendland
8
#12
Scott D. Gullicks
8
#13
Stephen C. P. Joseph
8
#14
Chetan P. Jariwala
7
#15
David H. Redinger
7
#16
Gilles J. Benoit
7
#17
John A. Wheatley
7
#18
Timothy J. Nevitt
7
#19
Adam J. Meuler
6
#20
Christopher S. Lyons
6
#21
Christopher R. Yungers
6
#22
Eric C. Lobner
6
#23
Guanglei Du
6
#24
Jeffrey O. Emslander
6
#25
Justin M. Johnson
6
#26
Kiran S. Kanukurthy
6
#27
Saujit Bandhu
6
#28
Sheng Ye
6
#29
Thomas J. Nelson
6
#30
William Blake Kolb
6
#31
Yongshang Lu
6
#32
Aaron K. Nienaber
5
#33
Albert I. Everaerts
5
#34
Alexander R. Mathews
5
#35
Andrew John Ouderkirk
5
#36
Audrey A. Sherman
5
#37
Carsten Franke
5
#38
Cheryl L. S. Elsbernd
5
#39
Evan D. Brutinel
5
#40
James M. Nelson
5
#41
Jacob D. Young
5
#42
Kurt J. Halverson
5
#43
Malte Korten
5
#44
Mark F. Schulz
5
#45
Martin B. Wolk
5
#46
Mikhail L. Pekurovsky
5
#47
Negus B. Adefris
5
#48
Neeraj Sharma
5
#49
Olester Benson, Jr.
5
#50
Richard J. Pokorny
5
#51
Steven T. Awiszus
5
#52
Tao Liu
5
#53
Ta-Hua Yu
5
#54
Timothy L. Wong
5
#55
Tilman C. Zipplies
5
#56
Ying Lin
5
#57
Zhisheng Yun
5
#58
Ahmed S. Abuelyaman
4
#59
Alan K. Nachtigal
4
#60
Andrew P. Bonifas
4
#61
Anthony F. Schultz
4
#62
Bing Hao
4
#63
Brian D. Goers
4
#64
Brian W. Ostlie
4
#65
Carl A. Laskowski
4
#66
Carl A. Stover
4
#67
Carla S. Thomas
4
#68
Chaodi Li
4
#69
Clinton P. Waller, Jr.
4
#70
David C. Mercord
4
#71
David T. Yust
4
#72
Dipankar Ghosh
4
#73
Douglas S. Dunn
4
#74
Douglas B. Gundel
4
#75
Duane D. Fansler
4
#76
Dylan T. Cosgrove
4
#77
Edward J. Kivel
4
#78
Ellison G. Kawakami
4
#79
Erin A. McDowell
4
#80
Fay T. Salmon
4
#81
Fusu Thao
4
#82
Gary T. Boyd
4
#83
George W. Griesgraber
4
#84
Gioacchino Raia
4
#85
Glen O. Gregerson
4
#86
Hassan Sahouani
4
#87
James P. Endle
4
#88
James D. Hansen
4
#89
James W. Howard
4
#90
James M. Sieracki
4
#91
Jonathan E. Janoski
4
#92
Jonathan J. O'Hare
4
#93
Justin P. Meyer
4
#94
Kevin M. Lewandowski
4
#95
Kelly A. Volp
4
#96
Kok Hoe Lee
4
#97
Mark W. Baldwin
4
#98
Matthew B. Johnson
4
#99
Marc Peuker
4
#100
Mark A. Roehrig
4