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Kinder Morgan — 22 Patents

Rank (All Time): #27,379 of 105,732Top 30%
21 inventors
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22 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1995.peak 31992: 1 patents19921993: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941995: 3 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 2 patents2001: 1 patents20012003: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents2020

Top Inventors at Kinder Morgan All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Lawrence J. Corte 6
2 Noel Duckworth 5
3 Ron Sherstan 3
#4 Kerry K. Assil 2
#5 James D. Davis 2
#6 Adrian Brown 2
#7 William R. Knepshield 2
#8 Chang-Beom Heo 1
#9 Byung Su Kim 1
#10 Timothy R. Hebbert 1
#11 Minyi Gil 1
#12 Kyung Shin Jeong 1
#13 Kristen S. Knepshield 1
#14 Kyung-Wook Kim 1
#15 William W. Ellis, Jr. 1
#16 Paul Steinway 1
#17 Chang Bum Hur 1
#18 Jong Chan LEE 1
#19 Kristen S. Fay 1
#20 Tony Wright 1
#21 Jonathan E. Thonsgaard 1

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