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Baker Hughes Holdings — 7,387 Patents

Rank (All Time): #106 of 105,732Top 1%
4,186 inventors
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7,387 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 513 patents in 2017.peak 5131996: 69 patents19961997: 80 patents1998: 98 patents1999: 109 patents19992000: 138 patents2001: 161 patents2002: 141 patents20022003: 162 patents2004: 124 patents2005: 132 patents20052006: 134 patents2007: 172 patents2008: 199 patents20082009: 248 patents2010: 361 patents2011: 338 patents20112012: 373 patents2013: 369 patents2014: 427 patents20142015: 485 patents2016: 411 patents2017: 513 patents20172018: 447 patents2019: 478 patents2020: 375 patents20202021: 195 patents2022: 115 patents2023: 62 patents20232024: 41 patents2025: 17 patents2025

Top Inventors at Baker Hughes Holdings All Time

Showing 1–50 of 4,186 inventors

RankNamePatents
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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