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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 201–250 of 1,996 inventors

RankNamePatents
#183 John N. Topolewski 7
#183 Kar Low 7
#183 Kenneth R. Parrish 7
#183 Lisa SWIKOSKI 7
#183 Matthew Honkanen 7
#183 Mark Anthony Mueller 7
#183 Mark Sebby 7
#183 Michael Berta 7
#183 Michelle Girolamo 7
#183 Montserrat Pinol Pedret 7
#183 Nikolay Yakovenko 7
#183 Paul Castellani 7
#183 Philip Leistra 7
#183 Ralph Fey 7
#183 Rodger Smith 7
#183 Sajad Arabnejad 7
#183 Steven Cong 7
#183 Vyachislav Ivanov 7
#183 Zdzislaw Sobieski 7
#220 Alan Matthew Finn 6
#220 Arunkumar Boda 6
#220 Artur W. Dlugosz 6
#220 Bernd Rolf Schwerma 6
#220 Charles Bruce Banter 6
#220 Chadi Shaya 6
#220 Courtney Joe Holmes 6
#220 David Fu 6
#220 Darren Legh 6
#220 Daniel J OBrien 6
#220 David J. Prince 6
#220 Dilip Daftuar 6
#220 Don Bernhardt 6
#220 Ernesto E. Blanco 6
#220 Eric Partington 6
#220 Florian Gerbl 6
#220 George E. Fox 6
#220 Greg Dickerhoof 6
#220 Gregory Pistilli 6
#220 Heiko Malsch 6
#220 Hilton W. Girard 6
#220 Ignacio Molinero Horno 6
#220 Jianliang Ma 6
#220 Joseph Donatti 6
#220 John Merritt 6
#220 Karl Robert Schäfer 6
#220 Kenneth Shaner 6
#220 Klaus-Dieter Grebner 6
#220 Krzysztof Wroblewski 6
#220 Laura Schulz 6
#220 Mathias Busch 6

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