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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 301–350 of 1,996 inventors

RankNamePatents
#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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