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Imation — 632 Patents

Rank (All Time): #1,343 of 105,732Top 2%
622 inventors
632 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 69 patents in 1999.peak 691996: 11 patents19961997: 49 patents1998: 45 patents1999: 69 patents19992000: 42 patents2001: 42 patents2002: 27 patents20022003: 36 patents2004: 43 patents2005: 37 patents20052006: 40 patents2007: 31 patents2008: 24 patents20082009: 17 patents2010: 11 patents2011: 11 patents20112012: 25 patents2013: 21 patents2014: 25 patents20142015: 22 patents2016: 3 patents2017: 1 patents2017

Top Inventors at Imation All Time

Showing 51–100 of 622 inventors

RankNamePatents
#37 Sten R. Gerfast 7
#37 Theodore A. Schwarz 7
#53 Arunprasad Ramiya Mothilal 6
#53 Bruce H. Edwards 6
#53 Dian E. Stevenson 6
#53 Durkee B. Richards 6
#53 Gil Spencer 6
#53 Gregory H. Johnson 6
#53 James M. DePuydt 6
#53 Jerome David Brown 6
#53 Jon R. Clark 6
#53 Massimo Bertoldi 6
#53 Michael A. Mewes 6
#53 Robert James Domett Nairne 6
#53 Saeed Fahimi 6
#53 William Blake Kolb 6
#67 Bruce E. Nelson 5
#67 David T. Hoge 5
#67 Darren Krahn 5
#67 David J. McDaniel 5
#67 Eran Schul 5
#67 Garry Lundstrom 5
#67 Kent R. Struble 5
#67 Mark Serafin 5
#67 Paul C. Schubert 5
#67 Richard J. Ellis 5
#67 Richard R. Ollmann 5
#67 Stanley C. Busman 5
#79 Brian Brong 4
#79 Brian D. Findlay 4
#79 C. Thomas Jennings 4
#79 David C. Lowery 4
#79 David M. Perry 4
#79 David P. Smith 4
#79 Douglas K. Hogue 4
#79 Geoffrey Lauinger 4
#79 Gregory A. Laska 4
#79 James A. Baker 4
#79 Jason Moses 4
#79 Jeanne E. Haubrich 4
#79 John Bruss 4
#79 Kay F. Schilli 4
#79 Mark R. I. Chambers 4
#79 Mary R. Hable 4
#79 Mark P. Lubratt 4
#79 Mark P. Weber 4
#79 Michael E. Reard 4
#79 Michael P. Sharrock 4
#79 Randy S. Bay 4
#79 Rachel J. Hobson 4

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