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3M
Rank (2023):
#91
of 29,688
Top 1%
1,003 inventors
398
Patents 2023
Top Inventors at 3M
2023
Rank
Name
Patents
1
John A. Wheatley
12
2
Douglas B. Gundel
11
3
Mario A. Davenport
11
#4
Gilles J. Benoit
10
#5
Michael A. Haase
10
#6
Eric O. Hemberg
9
#7
Malte Korten
9
#8
Richard J. Pokorny
9
#9
Ronald D. Jesme
9
#10
Thomas P. Klun
9
#11
Timothy L. Wong
9
#12
Zhisheng Yun
9
#13
Aaron K. Nienaber
8
#14
Guanglei Du
8
#15
Joel D. Oxman
8
#16
Ross E. Behling
8
#17
Angela L. Pan
7
#18
Eric C. Lobner
7
#19
Joseph B. Eckel
7
#20
Peter D. Condo
7
#21
Wayne S. Mahoney
7
#22
Yizhong Wang
7
#23
Ahmed S. Abuelyaman
6
#24
Alonso M. Hernandez
6
#25
Brian D. Goers
6
#26
Carsten Franke
6
#27
Catherine A. Leatherdale
6
#28
Carl A. Stover
6
#29
Claire Hartmann-Thompson
6
#30
David Scott Thompson
6
#31
James D. Hansen
6
#32
Jo A. Etter
6
#33
Joseph A. Hoffman
6
#34
John J. Stradinger
6
#35
Klaus Hintzer
6
#36
Matthew B. Johnson
6
#37
Negus B. Adefris
6
#38
Neeraj Sharma
6
#39
Nicholas A. Johnson
6
#40
Saswata Chakraborty
6
#41
Steven D. Solomonson
6
#42
Terry L. Smith
6
#43
Timothy J. Nevitt
6
#44
Adrian S. Eckert
5
#45
Alexander J. Kugel
5
#46
Andrew John Ouderkirk
5
#47
Bharat R. Acharya
5
#48
Bing Hao
5
#49
Brett J. Sitter
5
#50
Derek J. Dehn
5
#51
Erin A. McDowell
5
#52
Gioacchino Raia
5
#53
Gregg A. Ambur
5
#54
Jason D. Clapper
5
#55
Joseph D. Rule
5
#56
Kiran S. Kanukurthy
5
#57
Mikhail L. Pekurovsky
5
#58
Paul D. Henry
5
#59
Robert S. Clough
5
#60
Robert L. W. Smithson
5
#61
Steven T. Awiszus
5
#62
Stephen A. Johnson
5
#63
Steven P. Swanson
5
#64
Thomas J. Nelson
5
#65
Tianyu Wu
5
#66
Zeba Parkar
5
#67
Adam D. Haag
4
#68
Benjamin G. Sonnek
4
#69
Brian E. Brooks
4
#70
Brian A. Shukla
4
#71
Carla S. Thomas
4
#72
Charles L. Bruzzone
4
#73
David K. Cinader, Jr.
4
#74
Derek W. Patzman
4
#75
Evan L. Schwartz
4
#76
Frederick J. Arsenault
4
#77
George W. Griesgraber
4
#78
James W. Howard
4
#79
Jaewon Kim
4
#80
Jayshree Seth
4
#81
James B. Snyder
4
#82
Jennifer F. Schumacher
4
#83
Jean A. Tangeman
4
#84
Jonathan B. Arthur
4
#85
Joachim W. Zech
4
#86
Kara A. Meyers
4
#87
Kevin M. Lewandowski
4
#88
Matthew S. Stay
4
#89
Michael G. Costello
4
#90
Michael C. Harper
4
#91
Michael A. Kropp
4
#92
Michael G. Wurm
4
#93
Mohsen Salehi
4
#94
Noah O. Shanti
4
#95
Richard B. Ross
4
#96
Richard P. Rusin
4
#97
Sean M. Smith
4
#98
Ta-Hua Yu
4
#99
Tien Yi T. H. Whiting
4
#100
Vivian W. Jones
4