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Kennametal
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Kennametal
— 1,462 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#578
of
106,120
Top 1%
844
inventors
1,462
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Kennametal
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
844
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Robert A. Erickson
70
2
Ted R. Massa
56
3
Yixiong Liu
54
#4
Pankaj K. Mehrotra
45
#5
Kenneth L. Niebauer
39
#6
Don C. Rowlett
34
#7
Herbert Rudolf Kauper
28
#7
Jean-Luc Dufour
28
#7
Karen Anne Craig
28
#7
Linn R. Andras
28
#7
Wayne H. Beach
28
#12
Peter R. Leicht
27
#12
Ruy Frota de Souza Filho
27
#14
Igor Kaufmann
26
#14
Kent P. Mizgalski
26
#14
Leonid Boris Sharivker
26
#14
Mark S. Greenfield
26
#14
Paul D. Prichard
26
#14
Sergei Vladimir Boulakhov
26
#20
David J. Wills
25
#20
Kevin Michael Gamble
25
#22
Nicholas J. Henry
24
#23
Alan J. Bookheimer
23
#23
James R. Kasperik
23
#23
James Michael Waggle
23
#23
Jürgen Schwägerl
23
#27
Jeffrey Francis Kovac
22
#27
Stephen P. Stiffler
22
#27
Thomas J. Long, II
22
#30
Christoph Gey
21
#30
Stephen M. George
21
#32
Russell L. Yeckley
20
#33
Berthold Heinrich Zeug
19
#33
Joseph V. Nelson
19
#33
Juergen Schwaegerl
19
#33
Lewis Ray Morrison
19
#33
Ronald Louis Dudzinsky
19
#33
Ronald M. Penich
19
#33
Shi Chen
19
#33
X. Daniel Fang
19
#41
Zhenyu Liu
18
#42
David R. Siddle
17
#42
Edward J. Oles
17
#42
Qingjun Zheng
17
#45
Aharon Inspektor
16
#45
Bernhard Borschert
16
#45
Franz Havrda
16
#45
Horst Manfred Jäger
16
#45
Josef K. Herud
16
#45
Michael Schuffenhauer
16
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