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G.D. Searle
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G.D. Searle
— 1,174 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#718
of
105,732
Top 1%
659
inventors
1,174
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2013
Bar chart with a peak of 93 patents in 1993.
peak 93
1984: 15 patents
1984
1985: 29 patents
1986: 23 patents
1987: 31 patents
1987
1988: 34 patents
1989: 34 patents
1990: 33 patents
1990
1991: 42 patents
1992: 47 patents
1993: 93 patents
1993
1994: 58 patents
1995: 87 patents
1996: 65 patents
1996
1997: 76 patents
1998: 61 patents
1999: 62 patents
1999
2000: 60 patents
2001: 42 patents
2002: 74 patents
2002
2003: 46 patents
2004: 26 patents
2005: 17 patents
2005
2006: 24 patents
2007: 10 patents
2008: 2 patents
2008
2009: 1 patents
2010: 1 patents
2011: 1 patents
2011
2012: 2 patents
2013: 1 patents
2013
Top Inventors at G.D. Searle
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
659
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Richard A. Mueller
188
2
John J. Talley
130
3
Daniel P. Getman
122
#4
Michael L. Vazquez
108
#5
Gunnar J. Hanson
105
#6
Gary A. DeCrescenzo
103
#7
John N. Freskos
90
#8
John S. Baran
69
#8
Richard A. Partis
69
#10
James A. Sikorski
60
#11
Richard M. Weier
59
#12
Donald W. Hansen, Jr.
57
#13
Daniel L. Flynn
53
#14
Barnett S. Pitzele
50
#15
Robert E. Manning
49
#16
Ish Khanna
45
#16
Paul W. Collins
45
#18
E. Ann Hallinan
43
#19
David B. Reitz
42
#20
Balekudru Devadas
41
#21
Srinivasan Nagarajan
39
#22
Foe S. Tjoeng
37
#22
John S. Ng
37
#22
Michael Clare
37
#22
Thomas D. Penning
37
#26
Stevan W. Djuric
36
#27
Daniel P. Becker
35
#27
David L. Brown
35
#29
Joseph McDonald
34
#29
Mark Russell
34
#31
John McKearn
33
#31
Robert M. Heintz
33
#31
Timothy J. Hagen
33
#34
Matthew J. Graneto
32
#35
Clara I. Villamil
31
#35
Roger Nosal
31
#35
Stella S. Yu
31
#38
Alan E. Moormann
30
#38
Donald J. Rogier, Jr.
30
#38
Masateru Miyano
30
#41
Karen B. Peterson
29
#42
Deborah E. Bertenshaw
28
#42
Stephen R. Bertenshaw
28
#42
Suzanne Metz
28
#45
Francis J. Koszyk
27
#45
Joseph G. Rico
27
#45
Julie M. Miyashiro
27
#45
Sofya Tsymbalov
27
#49
Nizal Chandrakumar
26
#50
Dale P. Spangler
23
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