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HM
Herman Miller
Rank (All Time):
#1449
of 106,127
Top 2%
427 inventors
594
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Herman Miller
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Thomas J. Newhouse
54
2
Johann Burkhard Schmitz
49
3
Claudia Plikat
45
#4
Carola Eva Marianne Zwick
41
#5
Roland Rolf Otto Zwick
41
#6
William E. Stumpf
31
#7
James O. Kelley
28
#8
Andrew J. Kurrasch
27
#9
Donald Chadwick
24
#10
Yves Behar
22
#11
Geoffrey A. Hollington
21
#12
Douglas M. VanDeRiet
19
#13
Naoya Edahiro
19
#14
Qin Li
19
#15
Robert L. Propst
19
#16
Robert L. Beck
18
#17
Rodney C. Schoenfelder
18
#18
Timothy P. Coffield
18
#19
Jeffrey A. Weber
17
#20
Paul Dame
16
#21
Robert W. Insalaco
15
#22
Thomas M. Edwards
15
#23
Brock Walker
14
#24
Carolyn Keller
14
#25
Christopher C. Hill
14
#26
Gianfranco Zaccai
14
#27
John Matthai
14
#28
Eric Cammenga
13
#29
Jerome Caruso
13
#30
Michael J. Katje
13
#31
Duane G. McClung
12
#32
Jeffrey W. Bruner
12
#33
Ayse Birsel
11
#34
Bruce R. Gezon
11
#35
Philipp Von Lintel
11
#36
Randy J. Sayers
11
#37
Sam Hecht
11
#38
Steven Jerome Caruso
11
#39
Bret Recor
10
#40
Casey Doran Lewis
10
#41
Carola Zwick
10
#42
James D. Slagh
10
#43
Marc A. Gierz
10
#44
Mark Goetz
10
#45
Roland Zwick
10
#46
Donald A. Shepherd
9
#47
George A. Miles
9
#48
Jean Beirise
9
#49
Jeffrey L. Clark
9
#50
Nicolai Neubert
9
#51
Andrew Keith Hector
9
#52
Diana Chang
8
#53
Don Chadwick
8
#54
James H. Nienhuis
8
#55
Jeffrey Koffman
8
#56
Kimberlee Colin
8
#57
Richard Weise
8
#58
Ryan S. Brill
8
#59
David B. Martin
7
#60
Douglas M. Van De Riet
7
#61
Edgar B. Montague
7
#62
Frank Friedman
7
#63
Ippei Matsumoto
7
#64
Jack Nyenhuis
7
#65
Jeffrey D. Roetman
7
#66
Jeff Weber
7
#67
Mark Bates
7
#68
Michael L. De Pree
7
#69
Richard J. Stevens
7
#70
Steven F. Goodman
7
#71
Todd David Krupiczewicz
7
#72
Brian Alexander
6
#73
Elindo G. Castro, Jr.
6
#74
Eric Chan
6
#75
George A. Williams
6
#76
Jeffrey R. Oberlin
6
#77
Joel T. Ruiter
6
#78
Lynda Elizabeth Chesser
6
#79
Paul Gartland
6
#80
Peter James Keyzer
6
#81
Robert A. Nagelkirk
6
#82
Travis M. Randolph
6
#83
William F. Schacht
6
#84
Ayako Takase
5
#85
Christopher Hoyt
5
#86
Clino T. Castelli
5
#87
David J. Ritch
5
#88
Donald D. Goeman
5
#89
Jerry A. DeFouw
5
#90
John C. Coons
5
#91
Matthew Malone
5
#92
Mark Saffell
5
#93
Michael A. Wodka
5
#94
Nick Savage
5
#95
Ralph Farrer
5
#96
Richard Holbrook
5
#97
Ronald Simonton
5
#98
Steve F. Goodman
5
#99
Timothy C. Dearborn
5
#100
Burkhard Schmitz
4