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A. O. Smith
Rank (All Time):
#2276
of 106,127
Top 3%
319 inventors
359
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at A. O. Smith
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Brian Thomas Branecky
36
2
Dan M. Ionel
27
3
Stephen J. Dellinger
17
#4
Alan E. Lesak
16
#5
William Louis Mehlhorn
15
#6
Chih-Min Lin
13
#7
Terry G. Phillips
13
#8
Timothy H. Houle
12
#9
Dayan Bi
11
#10
Wade C. Patterson
11
#11
Phillip C. Ruehl
10
#12
William J. Watkins
10
#13
John D. Pfeffer
9
#14
Norman R. Long
9
#15
Robert J. Heideman
9
#16
Bu Qiu
8
#17
George W. Kraus, II
8
#18
James L. Chevalier
8
#19
Robert E. Lykes
8
#20
Robert M. Schurter
8
#21
Chad Taylor Thompson
7
#22
Jianmin Yin
7
#23
Ray O. Knoeppel
7
#24
Timothy Smith
7
#25
Dennis R. Hughes
6
#26
Herbert W. Nickel
6
#27
Michael W. Schultz
6
#28
Ronald Bartos
6
#29
John P. Eising
5
#30
Maohu Cai
5
#31
Paul Steven Mullin
5
#32
Ziwen Fu
5
#33
Albert Keith Pant
5
#34
Charles J. Koehler, III
4
#35
Chen Li
4
#36
Hai-Feng Zhang
4
#37
J. Herbert Johnson
4
#38
Janice Fitzgerald
4
#39
Marc W. Akkala
4
#40
Matthew W. Critchley
4
#41
Mark A. Murphy
4
#42
Thomas G. Van Sistine
4
#43
Yonghua Cheng
4
#44
Andrew W. Phillips
4
#45
Benjamin E. Coursin
3
#46
Carl Edward McDow
3
#47
Daher T. Wardy
3
#48
Dirk N. Granberg
3
#49
Edwin C. Pow
3
#50
Fred R. Pflederer
3
#51
Frank Edward Staigl, III
3
#52
Hongfei Ma
3
#53
Howard W. Smith
3
#54
James S. Stubbe
3
#55
Joseph R. Pottebaum
3
#56
Larry Chanasyk
3
#57
Liliang Dou
3
#58
Mark Warner
3
#59
Norman M. Kozak
3
#60
Richard E. Peters
3
#61
Robert H. Douthart
3
#62
Rodney R. Syler
3
#63
Ruihong WEI
3
#64
Stephen L. Kretschmer
3
#65
William E. Ryan
3
#66
Yonggon Lee
3
#67
Zhi Li
3
#68
Anthony J. Coloma
3
#69
Benjamin Bolton
2
#70
Brian C. Dolder
2
#71
Chad Edington
2
#72
David Kramer
2
#73
Darryl L. Ruark
2
#74
Douglas D. King
2
#75
Donald I. Lusk
2
#76
Dongwei Zhu
2
#77
Fred Barrett
2
#78
Gusphyl Antonio Justin
2
#79
James L. King
2
#80
Jian Xu
2
#81
John R. Belko
2
#82
John J. Deisinger
2
#83
John Matthew Schulz
2
#84
Kedar D. Dimble
2
#85
Kenneth T. Rice
2
#86
Maqboolhusein G. Shaikh
2
#87
Meng Yang
2
#88
Miao Chen
2
#89
Michael A. Giardello
2
#90
Ming C. Kuo
2
#91
Michael Wren
2
#92
Mohamed Mehdi Doura
2
#93
Peter James Fritz
2
#94
Richard J. Behrmann
2
#95
Robert L. Cole
2
#96
Ron Hirth
2
#97
Rodney A. Lemense
2
#98
Robert F. Poehlman
2
#99
Robert W. Ryno
2
#100
Shiping Zhang
2