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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

3M — 398 Patents in 2023

Rank (2023): #92 of 29,631Top 1%
1,003 inventors
398 Patents 2023

Top Inventors at 3M 2023

Showing 1–50 of 1,003 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 John A. Wheatley 12
2 Douglas B. Gundel 11
2 Mario A. Davenport 11
#4 Gilles J. Benoit 10
#4 Michael A. Haase 10
#6 Eric O. Hemberg 9
#6 Malte Korten 9
#6 Richard J. Pokorny 9
#6 Ronald D. Jesme 9
#6 Thomas P. Klun 9
#6 Timothy L. Wong 9
#6 Zhisheng Yun 9
#13 Aaron K. Nienaber 8
#13 Guanglei Du 8
#13 Joel D. Oxman 8
#13 Ross E. Behling 8
#17 Angela L. Pan 7
#17 Eric C. Lobner 7
#17 Joseph B. Eckel 7
#17 Peter D. Condo 7
#17 Wayne S. Mahoney 7
#17 Yizhong Wang 7
#23 Ahmed S. Abuelyaman 6
#23 Alonso M. Hernandez 6
#23 Brian D. Goers 6
#23 Carsten Franke 6
#23 Catherine A. Leatherdale 6
#23 Carl A. Stover 6
#23 Claire Hartmann-Thompson 6
#23 David Scott Thompson 6
#23 James D. Hansen 6
#23 Jo A. Etter 6
#23 Joseph A. Hoffman 6
#23 John J. Stradinger 6
#23 Klaus Hintzer 6
#23 Matthew B. Johnson 6
#23 Negus B. Adefris 6
#23 Neeraj Sharma 6
#23 Nicholas A. Johnson 6
#23 Saswata Chakraborty 6
#23 Steven D. Solomonson 6
#23 Terry L. Smith 6
#23 Timothy J. Nevitt 6
#44 Adrian S. Eckert 5
#44 Alexander J. Kugel 5
#44 Andrew John Ouderkirk 5
#44 Bharat R. Acharya 5
#44 Bing Hao 5
#44 Brett J. Sitter 5
#44 Derek J. Dehn 5