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Merck
Merck
— 11,680 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#77
of
106,127
Top 1%
9,382
inventors
11,680
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Merck
All Time
Showing
5,301–5,350
of
9,382
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
#3919
Antje Mühlfeld
2
#3919
Kenichi TABATA
2
#3919
Egbert Mueller
2
#3919
Dita M. Rasper
2
#3919
Eduard Willem Zwart
2
#3919
Bruno Giethlen
2
#3919
Kazutaka Hanaoka
2
#3919
Karen Louise Hadingham
2
#3919
Andrea Opolka
2
#3919
Ching-Jung Kan
2
#3919
Edward Walton
2
#3919
Karl Richard Gibson
2
#3919
Karla L. Furman
2
#3919
Edgar H. Ulm
2
#3919
Paul J. Deutsch
2
#3919
Katie Court
2
#3919
Anthony Phillips
2
#3919
Kang Cheng
2
#3919
Andreas Plückthun
2
#3919
Karen M. Brashear
2
#3919
Edward Scolnick
2
#3919
Andrew Proudfoot
2
#3919
Karl-Siegfried Boos
2
#3919
Karl-Heinz Becker
2
#3919
Jennifer Rotonda
2
#3919
Keith Wilbourn
2
#3919
Andrea Ritter
2
#3919
Annette Robichaud
2
#3919
Kazumichi Akashi
2
#3919
Jwu-Sheng Tung
2
#3919
Andrew Rosenau
2
#3919
Mohamed El-Sherbeini
2
#3919
Jutta ZUR LAGE
2
#3919
Jun Zhuang
2
#3919
Edward C. O'Rourke
2
#3919
Yvan Guinon
2
#3919
Keith M. Witherup
2
#3919
Pasquale Della Mura
2
#3919
Edward B. Nelson
2
#3919
Kelvin Hin-Yeong Yong
2
#3919
Ann D. Schuda
2
#3919
Julian Duncan Smith
2
#3919
Edwin C. Johnson, Jr.
2
#3919
Anja Seiler
2
#3919
Justin T. Sheen
2
#3919
Juergen Schmidt
2
#3919
Edward Holson
2
#3919
Julian Plewa
2
#3919
Chih-Peng Lu
2
#3919
Judith M. Pisano
2
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