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Lear — 2,346 Patents

Rank (All Time): #356 of 105,732Top 1%
1,996 inventors
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2,346 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 201 patents in 2006.peak 2011996: 2 patents19961997: 20 patents1998: 64 patents1999: 79 patents19992000: 58 patents2001: 49 patents2002: 62 patents20022003: 83 patents2004: 117 patents2005: 119 patents20052006: 201 patents2007: 126 patents2008: 67 patents20082009: 70 patents2010: 69 patents2011: 74 patents20112012: 73 patents2013: 69 patents2014: 90 patents20142015: 77 patents2016: 84 patents2017: 70 patents20172018: 71 patents2019: 100 patents2020: 103 patents20202021: 83 patents2022: 78 patents2023: 74 patents20232024: 63 patents2025: 51 patents2025

Top Inventors at Lear All Time

Showing 51–100 of 1,996 inventors

RankNamePatents
#51 Andrew Massara 19
#51 Michelle A. PERENY 19
#53 Alan George Dry 18
#53 Dale Smallwood 18
#53 Douglas S Moeller 18
#53 Gerald O. Morrison 18
#53 Gerald Patrick 18
#53 John Youngs 18
#53 Lewis Galligan 18
#53 Louella Ann Patterson 18
#53 Terry O'Bannon 18
#62 Brantley Natter 17
#62 Christer Andersson 17
#62 Samuel Hanlon 17
#62 Thomas S. Hicks 17
#66 Karsten Mueller 16
#66 Mark D. Chuey 16
#66 Mohammad Saberan 16
#66 Nadir Sharaf 16
#66 Ronald W Pashby 16
#71 Aric Anglin 15
#71 Jody K. Harwood 15
#71 Krzysztof Klesyk 15
#71 Thomas A. Welch, Sr. 15
#71 William Paruszkiewicz 15
#76 Christopher J. Darr 14
#76 Douglas J. Wilson 14
#76 Eckhard Nock 14
#76 Hans-Peter Mischer 14
#76 Jack Palazzolo 14
#76 Joan Ignasi Ferran Palau 14
#76 Klaus Walter 14
#76 Mark R. Keyser 14
#76 Michael Schoemann 14
#76 Michael A. Uleski 14
#76 Sai Prasad Jammalamadaka 14
#76 Slobadan Pavlovic 14
#76 Winsen C. Zouzal 14
#89 Ajmal Imran Ansari 13
#89 Albert M. Cabañero 13
#89 Bogdan Radu 13
#89 Jason G. Bauman 13
#89 James B. Clauser 13
#89 Johannes Barzen 13
#89 Marc Laumeier 13
#89 Randy Reed 13
#89 Stefan Brunner 13
#98 Allen Leo Mott 12
#98 Christopher Ricard 12
#98 Faisal K. Sallam 12

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