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Merck
Merck
— 270 Patents in 2021
Rank
(2021):
#137
of
31,506
Top 1%
909
inventors
270
Patents 2021
Top Inventors at Merck
2021
Showing
1–50
of
909
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Amir Hossain Parham
17
2
Anja Jatsch
16
3
Jonas Valentin Kroeber
15
#4
Philipp Stoessel
13
#5
Thomas Eberle
12
#6
Tobias Grossmann
11
#7
Yongxin Han
10
#8
Derun Li
8
#8
Hsin-Rong Tseng
8
#8
Lars Dobelmann-Mara
8
#11
Aurélie Ludemann
7
#11
Christian EHRENREICH
7
#11
Kun Liu
7
#11
Martin Schraub
7
#15
Abdelghani Achab
6
#15
Christoph Leonhard
6
#15
Dominik Joosten
6
#15
Elvira Montenegro
6
#15
Frank Voges
6
#15
Gaëlle Béalle
6
#15
Hongjun Zhang
6
#15
Hua Zhou
6
#15
Meredeth A. McGowan
6
#15
Michael T. Rudd
6
#15
Stefan Riedmueller
6
#15
Wensheng Yu
6
#15
Xavier Fradera
6
#28
Irina Martynova
5
#28
Laurence Fayadat-Dilman
5
#28
Michael Miller
5
#28
Peer Kirsch
5
#28
Rocco Fortte
5
#28
Rouven Linge
5
#28
Shuwen He
5
#28
Teresa Mujica-Fernaud
5
#36
Arne Buesing
4
#36
Atsutaka Manabe
4
#36
Beate Burkhart
4
#36
Christof Pflumm
4
#36
Constanze Brocke
4
#36
David L. Sloman
4
#36
Holger Heil
4
#36
John J. Acton, III
4
#36
Joseph A. Kozlowski
4
#36
Laurent Moreau
4
#36
Liangqin Guo
4
#36
Ling Tong
4
#36
Manuel Hamburger
4
#36
Michael Man-Chu Lo
4
#36
Nils Koenen
4
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