Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
Partial year: Data through Q3 2025 (Sept 30). Full-year totals not yet available.

3M

Rank (2025): #94 of 24,532Top 1%
881 inventors
302 Patents 2025

Top Inventors at 3M 2025

Showing 1–50 of 881 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Gilles J. Benoit 16
2 Adam D. Haag 14
3 Caleb T. Nelson 11
#4 Nicholas A. Johnson 9
#5 Brian E. Brooks 8
#5 John A. Wheatley 8
#5 Matthew B. Johnson 8
#5 Timothy J. Nevitt 8
#5 Tri D. Pham 8
#5 Zhisheng Yun 8
#11 Aaron K. Nienaber 7
#11 Daniel J. Schmidt 7
#11 Frederick J. Arsenault 7
#11 Kevin W. Gotrik 7
#11 Peter O. Olson 7
#11 Timothy L. Wong 7
#11 Tyler W. Olson 7
#18 Christopher S. Lyons 6
#18 Himanshu Nayar 6
#18 Joseph B. Eckel 6
#18 Ronald D. Jesme 6
#18 Thomas J. Nelson 6
#23 Andrew John Ouderkirk 5
#23 Bharat R. Acharya 5
#23 Carl A. Stover 5
#23 Darin K. Thompson 5
#23 David T. Yust 5
#23 Erin A. McDowell 5
#23 Gary T. Boyd 5
#23 John D. Le 5
#23 Kara A. Meyers 5
#23 Karl K. Stensvad 5
#23 Matthew S. Stay 5
#23 Michael A. Kropp 5
#23 Mikhail L. Pekurovsky 5
#23 Tao Liu 5
#23 Wayne S. Mahoney 5
#38 Brett R. Hemes 4
#38 Caroline M. Ylitalo 4
#38 Christopher P. Henderson 4
#38 Henrik B. van Lengerich 4
#38 James M. Nelson 4
#38 Jeffrey L. Solomon 4
#38 Jo A. Etter 4
#38 Martin E. Denker 4
#38 Michael T. Weiss 4
#38 Moses M. David 4
#38 Nathan W. Safe 4
#38 Owen M. Anderson 4
#38 Paul B. Armstrong 4