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Lear
— 2,346 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#356
of
105,732
Top 1%
1,996
inventors
Fortune 500
#189
(2025)
·
Inventor 500 →
2,346
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 201 patents in 2006.
peak 201
1996: 2 patents
1996
1997: 20 patents
1998: 64 patents
1999: 79 patents
1999
2000: 58 patents
2001: 49 patents
2002: 62 patents
2002
2003: 83 patents
2004: 117 patents
2005: 119 patents
2005
2006: 201 patents
2007: 126 patents
2008: 67 patents
2008
2009: 70 patents
2010: 69 patents
2011: 74 patents
2011
2012: 73 patents
2013: 69 patents
2014: 90 patents
2014
2015: 77 patents
2016: 84 patents
2017: 70 patents
2017
2018: 71 patents
2019: 100 patents
2020: 103 patents
2020
2021: 83 patents
2022: 78 patents
2023: 74 patents
2023
2024: 63 patents
2025: 51 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Lear
All Time
Showing
301–350
of
1,996
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
#275
Jeff Kempf
5
#275
Joan Balana Avila
5
#275
Josep M. Roset
5
#275
Joerg Sternberg
5
#275
Juan Lopez
5
#275
Kirk P. Koenig
5
#275
Marlon Christian Grosser
5
#275
Mark Heinze
5
#275
Mark Stanisz
5
#275
Matthias Zimmermann
5
#275
Michael P. Modreski
5
#275
Patrick J. Carlsen
5
#275
Rainer Busies
5
#275
Rafael Jimenez Pino
5
#275
Richard G. Dierl
5
#275
Saligrama R. Venkatesh
5
#275
Scott Ziolek
5
#275
Shu-Hsiung Chou
5
#275
Sheikh Habibur Rahman
5
#275
Stephen Humphrey
5
#275
Steven Peck
5
#275
Sunil Gupte
5
#275
Timo Schroeder
5
#275
Todd W. Waelde
5
#275
Ulrich Schneider
5
#275
Venkat Yalamanchili
5
#275
William Webster
5
#275
Yasin Canol
5
#275
Yong Yang
5
#275
Zoran Kovac
5
#331
Alfred Cziomer
4
#331
Alex Van Duyne
4
#331
Angelo Falchero
4
#331
Andre Weimerskirch
4
#331
Ashley Baisch
4
#331
Bengt Andreasson
4
#331
Brian R. Masters
4
#331
Bryan Vartanian
4
#331
Caleb Andrew Abbey
4
#331
Cesar Ruano Alvarez
4
#331
Chad Allen Balk
4
#331
Charles A. Haba
4
#331
David M. Fox
4
#331
Daniel E. Hawkins
4
#331
Debra Jean Tiensivu
4
#331
Dirk Benthaus
4
#331
Edmund J. Madaj
4
#331
Eileen Marie Avram
4
#331
Enric Aparicio Rollan
4
#331
Eric Honsowetz
4
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