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Dekalb Genetics
— 201 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#3,704
of
105,732
Top 4%
108
inventors
201
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2010
Bar chart with a peak of 43 patents in 1999.
peak 43
1995: 4 patents
1995
1996: 10 patents
1997: 1 patents
1997
1998: 8 patents
1999: 43 patents
1999
2000: 39 patents
2001: 31 patents
2001
2002: 31 patents
2003: 10 patents
2003
2004: 9 patents
2005: 2 patents
2005
2006: 2 patents
2007: 7 patents
2007
2009: 2 patents
2010: 2 patents
2010
Top Inventors at Dekalb Genetics
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
108
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
David Walters
22
2
Ronald C. Lundquist
16
3
Michael A. Hall
14
#4
Albert P. Kausch
13
#5
David J. McElroy
11
#5
T. Michael Spencer
11
#5
Thomas L. Floyd
11
#8
Alan L. Kriz
10
#8
Emil Orozco
10
#8
Julie A. Kirihara
10
#8
Paul C. Anderson
10
#8
William J. Gordon-Kamm
10
#13
Catherine J. Mackey
9
#14
Donn P. Cummings
8
#14
James V. O'Brien
8
#14
Marvin L. Boerboom
8
#14
Michael P. Conway
8
#14
Richard J. Daines
8
#14
Thomas R. Adams
8
#20
James R. Larkins
7
#20
Nancy G. Willetts
7
#20
Peter M. Orr
7
#23
Francis Garing
6
#23
Lucille B. Laccetti
6
#23
Paul S. Chomet
6
#23
Peggy G. Lemaux
6
#23
Sheryl A. Chambers
6
#23
Steven K. Johnson
6
#23
Thomas Rice
6
#23
William G. Start
6
#31
Allen C. Faue
5
#31
Dale S. Wickersham
5
#31
Mary L. Mangano
5
#31
Nancy Sebern
5
#31
Thomas B. Carlson
5
#36
David C. Warner
4
#36
Gary Day
4
#36
Gary R. Stangland
4
#36
Michael T. Mann
4
#36
Michael A. Stephens
4
#36
Steve K. Johnson
4
#36
Thomas E. Morgan
4
#43
Christopher E. Flick
3
#43
David E. Baltenberger
3
#43
Dale A. Voyles
3
#43
Donald S. Walters
3
#43
Janice Anthony
3
#43
Jay Robert Hotchkiss
3
#43
John H. Pfund
3
#43
Kenneth A. Hibberd
3
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