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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 101–150 of 1,996 inventors

RankNamePatents
#98 Harald Fischer 12
#98 Jeffrey A. Jones 12
#98 John P. Slaven 12
#98 John Stack 12
#98 Karl Kennedy 12
#98 Miguel Angel Acena 12
#98 Nordine Hamtache 12
#98 Peter Festag 12
#98 Peter Kowtun 12
#98 Samuel Blair 12
#111 Achim Tscherbner 11
#111 Bruce Conner 11
#111 David Dooley 11
#111 Hector Sarnago Andia 11
#111 John E. McConnell 11
#111 Kenan R. Rudnick 11
#111 Mark Feldman 11
#111 Marc Poulin 11
#111 Pawel W. Sleboda 11
#111 Rainer Penzel 11
#111 Robert J. Adams 11
#111 Ronald L. Miotto 11
#111 Thibaud Condamin 11
#111 Thomas LeMense 11
#125 Aftab Ali Khan 10
#125 Bradley C. Duncan 10
#125 Jason Baldas 10
#125 James Masters 10
#125 James Mulvihill 10
#125 John R. Sims 10
#125 Keith A. Christenson 10
#125 Keith R. Kwasny 10
#125 Mohamad Zeidan 10
#125 Odd Jaegtnes 10
#125 Oscar Lucia Gil 10
#125 Parminder Brar 10
#125 Pablo GAONA ROSANES 10
#125 Salman Khreizat 10
#125 Walter T. Cichocki 10
#125 Youssef Ghabbour 10
#141 Andre Schebaum 9
#141 Cecil Brown 9
#141 Edgar Michael Racho 9
#141 Jasmine Pizana 9
#141 Kenneth McQueen 9
#141 Klaus Boes 9
#141 Kyle Calvert 9
#141 Lisa Townley 9
#141 Michael Ferrari 9
#141 Michael Hardy 9

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