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Imation
— 632 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#1,343
of
105,732
Top 2%
622
inventors
632
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2017
Bar chart with a peak of 69 patents in 1999.
peak 69
1996: 11 patents
1996
1997: 49 patents
1998: 45 patents
1999: 69 patents
1999
2000: 42 patents
2001: 42 patents
2002: 27 patents
2002
2003: 36 patents
2004: 43 patents
2005: 37 patents
2005
2006: 40 patents
2007: 31 patents
2008: 24 patents
2008
2009: 17 patents
2010: 11 patents
2011: 11 patents
2011
2012: 25 patents
2013: 21 patents
2014: 25 patents
2014
2015: 22 patents
2016: 3 patents
2017: 1 patents
2017
Top Inventors at Imation
All Time
Showing
51–100
of
622
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
#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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