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Baker Hughes Holdings
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Baker Hughes Holdings
— 7,387 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#106
of
105,732
Top 1%
4,186
inventors
Fortune 500
#155
(2025)
·
Inventor 500 →
7,387
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 513 patents in 2017.
peak 513
1996: 69 patents
1996
1997: 80 patents
1998: 98 patents
1999: 109 patents
1999
2000: 138 patents
2001: 161 patents
2002: 141 patents
2002
2003: 162 patents
2004: 124 patents
2005: 132 patents
2005
2006: 134 patents
2007: 172 patents
2008: 199 patents
2008
2009: 248 patents
2010: 361 patents
2011: 338 patents
2011
2012: 373 patents
2013: 369 patents
2014: 427 patents
2014
2015: 485 patents
2016: 411 patents
2017: 513 patents
2017
2018: 447 patents
2019: 478 patents
2020: 375 patents
2020
2021: 195 patents
2022: 115 patents
2023: 62 patents
2023
2024: 41 patents
2025: 17 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Baker Hughes Holdings
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
4,186
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Danny E. Scott
163
2
Michael H. Johnson
154
3
Rocco DiFoggio
145
#4
Zhiyue Xu
139
#5
Anthony A. DiGiovanni
122
#6
Rudolf Carl Pessier
103
#7
James B. Crews
95
#8
Thomas Kruspe
90
#9
Bennett M. Richard
88
#10
Tianping Huang
83
#11
Eric C. Sullivan
82
#12
Gerald D. Lynde
79
#13
Gaurav Agrawal
77
#14
Volker Krueger
72
#15
Stanislav W. Forgang
71
#16
Steve Rosenblatt
69
#17
Martin P. Coronado
69
#18
Steven R. Radford
67
#19
James L. Overstreet
67
#20
Valery N. Khabashesku
66
#21
Oleg A. Mazyar
66
#22
Nicholas J. Lyons
65
#23
Edward J. O'Malley
65
#24
YingQing Xu
64
#25
James C. Doane
63
#26
Otto N. Fanini
61
#27
Gregory B. Itskovich
59
#28
Yang Xu
58
#29
Jimmy W. Eason
56
#30
Gordon A. Tibbitts
56
#31
Robert S. O'Brien
56
#32
Douglas J. Murray
55
#33
Gregory L. Hern
55
#34
Redd H. Smith
53
#35
Qi Qu
52
#36
John L. Baugh
52
#37
John H. Stevens
52
#38
Soma Chakraborty
50
#39
Harold Dean Brannon
49
#40
Volker Peters
49
#41
Douglas J. Patterson
49
#42
Jerry J. Weers
48
#43
Brooks A. Childers
46
#44
Edward T. Wood
45
#45
Andreas Peter
43
#46
Suresh G. Patel
43
#47
Vladimir Dubinsky
42
#48
Daniel T. Georgi
42
#49
Chih Lin
42
#50
Juan Miguel Bilen
41
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