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G.D. Searle — 1,174 Patents

Rank (All Time): #718 of 105,732Top 1%
659 inventors
1,174 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 93 patents in 1993.peak 931984: 15 patents19841985: 29 patents1986: 23 patents1987: 31 patents19871988: 34 patents1989: 34 patents1990: 33 patents19901991: 42 patents1992: 47 patents1993: 93 patents19931994: 58 patents1995: 87 patents1996: 65 patents19961997: 76 patents1998: 61 patents1999: 62 patents19992000: 60 patents2001: 42 patents2002: 74 patents20022003: 46 patents2004: 26 patents2005: 17 patents20052006: 24 patents2007: 10 patents2008: 2 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents2013

Top Inventors at G.D. Searle All Time

Showing 1–50 of 659 inventors

RankNamePatents
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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