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General Mills — 1,017 Patents

Rank (All Time): #847 of 105,732Top 1%
968 inventors
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1,017 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 42 patents in 2020.peak 421996: 22 patents19961997: 9 patents1998: 22 patents1999: 29 patents19992000: 26 patents2001: 36 patents2002: 37 patents20022003: 20 patents2004: 22 patents2005: 15 patents20052006: 25 patents2007: 27 patents2008: 22 patents20082009: 32 patents2010: 29 patents2011: 20 patents20112012: 27 patents2013: 27 patents2014: 24 patents20142015: 26 patents2016: 19 patents2017: 34 patents20172018: 26 patents2019: 30 patents2020: 42 patents20202021: 22 patents2022: 24 patents2023: 20 patents20232024: 34 patents2025: 17 patents2025

Top Inventors at General Mills All Time

Showing 1–50 of 968 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 James N. Weinstein 47
2 Bernhard H. van Lengerich 38
3 Arne H. Brauner 34
#4 Craig E. Zimmermann 34
#5 David J. Domingues 33
#6 Ralph A Stenvik 30
#7 Steven C. Robie 29
#8 Philip K. Zietlow 28
#9 George A. Tuszkiewicz 23
#10 Dean F. Funk 22
#11 Goeran Walther 21
#12 Daniel R. Green 21
#13 John J Fenske 21
#14 David A. Kirk 19
#15 Peter A. Huberg 19
#16 Eugene P. Buck 19
#17 David W. Plank 18
#18 Ali El-Afandi 18
#19 Barrie R. Froseth 18
#20 Jonathan Seaborne 17
#21 Christine M. Nowakowski 17
#22 Michael S. Damron 17
#23 Timothy J. Gluszak 17
#24 Carina Claudia Cammarota 17
#25 Craig A. Dowd 17
#26 Jeffrey Strand 16
#27 Jon Duke Seibold 16
#28 Randal J. Monforton 15
#29 Dena K. Strehlow 14
#30 Chad M Kubat 14
#31 Patrick E. Allen 13
#32 William E. Archibald 13
#33 James R. Borek 12
#34 Alan A. Oppenheimer 12
#35 Zac Harder 12
#36 Richard O. Benham 12
#37 Erin K. Taylor 12
#38 Braden J. Erickson 11
#39 Robert A. Zoss 11
#40 Bruce J. Button 11
#41 Troy Alan Heuring 11
#42 Zachary Harder 11
#43 Michael P. Waldherr 11
#44 Rodney K. Gwiazdon 10
#45 Susan L. Kamper 10
#46 Patrick J. Sumpmann 10
#47 James W. Geoffrion 10
#48 Craig S. Lundquist 10
#49 Jon R. Blake 10
#50 Thomas G. Cremers 10

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