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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Munich, DE ranks #5,439 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 477 patents from 23 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Munich, DE include Danco, Nokia Solutions And Networks, Huawei.

Showing 1–23 of 23 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael J. Schuster Danco 89
2 Klaus Hoffmann Nokia Solutions And Networks 65
3 Qing Wei Huawei 41
#4 Michael Kraus Dade Behring Marburg Gmbh 37
#5 Fritz Muller Gemü Gebrüder Müller Apparatebau Gmbh & Co. Kg 36
#6 Michael Bahr Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 34
#7 Thomas Mueller Sap Se 29
#8 Dan Touitou Cisco 26
#9 Thomas Wolf Dsm Ip Assets B.V. 23
#10 Thomas Ebner Epcos Ag 18
#11 Matthew Roberts Etymotic Research 15
#12 Ralf Koetter MIT 13
#13 Hans-Albert Wagner BMW 10
#14 Philipp Gutruf Northwestern University 7
#15 Adam Halsband Bridgestone Americas 6
#15 Richard Wick 6
#17 Robert Wilde Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 5
#18 Hermann Mueller Messerschmitt Bolkow Blohm Gmbh 4
#18 David C. Koch Caterpillar 4
#20 Thomas Bryan Entropic Communications 3
#21 Norbert Kotulla Griffith Laboratories U.S.A. 2
#21 Lars Ræder Clausen Bull Cp8 2
#21 Carl P. Rau Rauland-Borg 2

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