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3M
Rank (2022):
#82
of 30,823
Top 1%
1,198 inventors
471
Patents 2022
Top Inventors at 3M
2022
Rank
Name
Patents
1
George W. Griesgraber
11
2
John A. Wheatley
11
3
Kui Chen-Ho
10
#4
Michael A. Haase
8
#5
Terry L. Smith
8
#6
Zhisheng Yun
8
#7
Jerald K. Rasmussen
7
#8
Kiran S. Kanukurthy
7
#9
Mark W. Baldwin
7
#10
Michael A. McCoy
7
#11
Richard E. Raby
7
#12
Ronald D. Jesme
7
#13
Tatsuo Fukushi
7
#14
Aaron K. Nienaber
6
#15
Andrew P. Bonifas
6
#16
Angela L. Pan
6
#17
Caroline M. Ylitalo
6
#18
Christopher P. Henderson
6
#19
Eric C. Lobner
6
#20
Guanglei Du
6
#21
Jacob D. Young
6
#22
Jo A. Etter
6
#23
Kevin W. Gotrik
6
#24
Matthew B. Johnson
6
#25
Malte Korten
6
#26
Mikhail L. Pekurovsky
6
#27
Negus B. Adefris
6
#28
Neeraj Sharma
6
#29
Timothy J. Nevitt
6
#30
Timothy L. Wong
6
#31
Yongshang Lu
6
#32
Adam D. Haag
5
#33
Andrew John Ouderkirk
5
#34
Audrey A. Sherman
5
#35
Benjamin R. Coonce
5
#36
Brett J. Sitter
5
#37
Erin A. McDowell
5
#38
Evan L. Schwartz
5
#39
Gallus Schechner
5
#40
James W. Howard
5
#41
James B. Snyder
5
#42
Jeffrey O. Emslander
5
#43
Joseph D. Rule
5
#44
John L. Thiele
5
#45
Klaus Hintzer
5
#46
Kyle C. Bryson
5
#47
Louis D. Hibbard
5
#48
Matthew S. Stay
5
#49
Michael A. Kropp
5
#50
Michael H. Mitchell
5
#51
Naiyong Jing
5
#52
Richard L. Jacobson
5
#53
Scott J. Tuman
5
#54
Semra Colak Atan
5
#55
Steven T. Awiszus
5
#56
Stephen C. P. Joseph
5
#57
Thomas P. Klun
5
#58
Yizhong Wang
5
#59
Zhaohui Yang
5
#60
Albert I. Everaerts
4
#61
Alexander R. Mathews
4
#62
Alexi J. Young
4
#63
Andrew R. Fox
4
#64
Anna M. Hegdahl
4
#65
Benjamin J. Anderson
4
#66
Bing Hao
4
#67
Carsten Franke
4
#68
Carl A. Stover
4
#69
David K. Cinader, Jr.
4
#70
Denis Duchesne
4
#71
Douglas B. Gundel
4
#72
Encai Hao
4
#73
G. Marco Bommarito
4
#74
Gregg A. Ambur
4
#75
Gregg D. Dahlke
4
#76
Guido Hitschmann
4
#77
James P. Endle
4
#78
James M. Nelson
4
#79
Jayshree Seth
4
#80
Joseph A. Hoffman
4
#81
Joel D. Oxman
4
#82
Kenton D. Budd
4
#83
Kiu-Yuen Tse
4
#84
Kurt J. Halverson
4
#85
Lianzhou Chen
4
#86
Mario A. Davenport
4
#87
Martin B. Wolk
4
#88
Michael Benton Free
4
#89
Michael Jahns
4
#90
Neal A. Rakow
4
#91
Nicholas T. Gabriel
4
#92
Richard J. Pokorny
4
#93
Robert T. Fitzsimons, Jr.
4
#94
Robert M. Jennings
4
#95
Saujit Bandhu
4
#96
Saswata Chakraborty
4
#97
Sheng Ye
4
#98
Stephen A. Johnson
4
#99
Steven P. Swanson
4
#100
Susan L. Kent
4