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Hill-Rom — 239 Patents

Rank (All Time): #3,148 of 105,732Top 3%
254 inventors
239 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 45 patents in 2000.peak 451980: 1 patents19801981: 1 patents1982: 2 patents1985: 5 patents19851986: 4 patents1987: 5 patents1988: 3 patents19881989: 5 patents1990: 5 patents1991: 5 patents19911992: 11 patents1993: 6 patents1994: 11 patents19941995: 20 patents1996: 11 patents1997: 15 patents19971998: 25 patents1999: 21 patents2000: 45 patents20002001: 36 patents2002: 2 patents2002

Top Inventors at Hill-Rom All Time

Showing 1–50 of 254 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 L. Dale Foster 40
2 Dennis J. Gallant 19
2 Matthew W. Weismiller 19
#4 Richard L. Borders 18
#4 Ryan A. Reeder 18
#6 Jason C. Brooke 17
#7 Kenneth L. Kramer 16
#7 Richard H. Heimbrock 16
#9 David J. Ulrich 15
#10 Eric R. Meyer 13
#10 John W. Ruehl 13
#12 James M. C. Thomas 12
#13 John Vogel 11
#14 Gregory W. Branson 10
#15 Eugene H. Fullenkamp 9
#16 David A. Albersmeyer 8
#16 David C. Newkirk 8
#16 Michael M. Donnelly 8
#16 Philip D. Palermo 8
#20 Clement J. Koerber, Sr. 7
#20 Michael E. Poehner 7
#20 Peter M. Wukusick 7
#20 Timothy A. Kappers 7
#24 Cecil R. Lohrey 6
#24 Charles Goldberg 6
#24 Charles A. Howell 6
#24 David N. Ashcraft 6
#24 Daniel F. Dlugos, Jr. 6
#24 James L. Walke 6
#24 Joseph A. Kummer 6
#24 John D. Miller 6
#24 Sohrab Soltani 6
#24 Timothy Wade Perez 6
#24 William H. Peck 6
#35 David W. Hornbach 5
#35 Daniel J. Ulrich 5
#35 Douglas C. Ambach 5
#35 Donald E. Smith 5
#35 Howard J. Boyd 5
#35 Jay Butterbrodt 5
#35 James J. Romano 5
#35 John A. Bobey 5
#35 Reza Hakamiun 5
#35 Stephen R. Schulte 5
#35 William M. Blyshak 5
#35 William S. Larisey, Jr. 5
#47 D. Scott Prows 4
#47 Dale A. Nobbe 4
#47 Daniel G. Stafford 4
#47 Dennis C. Coon 4

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