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H.B. Fuller
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H.B. Fuller
— 192 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#3,853
of
105,732
Top 4%
230
inventors
192
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2020.
peak 12
1986: 5 patents
1986
1987: 5 patents
1988: 5 patents
1989: 7 patents
1989
1990: 7 patents
1991: 5 patents
1992: 7 patents
1992
1993: 4 patents
1994: 3 patents
1995: 3 patents
1995
1996: 1 patents
1999: 1 patents
2000: 1 patents
2000
2007: 2 patents
2010: 8 patents
2011: 7 patents
2011
2012: 3 patents
2013: 3 patents
2014: 8 patents
2014
2015: 3 patents
2016: 6 patents
2017: 6 patents
2017
2018: 5 patents
2019: 10 patents
2020: 12 patents
2020
2021: 6 patents
2022: 3 patents
2023: 12 patents
2023
2024: 5 patents
2025: 10 patents
2025
Top Inventors at H.B. Fuller
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
230
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
William L. Bunnelle
13
2
Brian W. Carlson
12
3
Kevin P. Davis
11
3
Sharf U. Ahmed
11
#5
Charles E. Asbury, Jr.
10
#5
Victor H. Clausen
10
#7
Robert M. Hume, III
9
#8
Jorge A. Nash
8
#8
Orion A. Cavins
8
#8
Peter Remmers
8
#8
Thomas F. Kauffman
8
#12
Steven R. Vaughan
7
#13
Mutombo Joseph Muvundamina
6
#13
Patrick D. Gleason
6
#15
Albert M. Giorgini
5
#15
Ameara S. Mansour
5
#15
David B. Malcolm
5
#15
John M. Zimmel
5
#15
Marietta B. Helmeke
5
#15
Mark S. Kroll
5
#15
Paul L. Krankkala
5
#15
Richard Lindmark
5
#15
Wayne G. Eklund
5
#24
Claudia Mosanu
4
#24
Cynthia A. Stewart-Irvin
4
#24
Mike J. Todd
4
#24
Michael J. Vander Giessen
4
#24
Richard A. Miller
4
#24
Scott C. Schmidt
4
#24
Stephen G. Rippe
4
#24
Stephen M. Willging
4
#24
Thomas Wittkopf
4
#24
Timothy W. Roska
4
#24
Vern H. Batdorf
4
#24
Virginia C. Markevka
4
#24
Wayne P. Miller
4
#37
Alan R. Nahkala
3
#37
Anthony J. Ostlund
3
#37
Beth M. Eichler-Johnson
3
#37
Carlos Briseno
3
#37
Dorian Nelson
3
#37
Eugene R. Simmons
3
#37
Felix D. Mai
3
#37
Harald Werenicz
3
#37
Leonard Jannusch
3
#37
Michael J. Nowak
3
#37
Rituparna Paul
3
#37
Thomas O. Murdock
3
#37
Thomas C. Steel
3
#50
Amanda L. Schmit
2
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