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Methode Electronics
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Methode Electronics
— 310 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#2,512
of
105,732
Top 3%
253
inventors
310
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 29 patents in 2000.
peak 29
1996: 25 patents
1996
1997: 12 patents
1998: 21 patents
1999: 19 patents
1999
2000: 29 patents
2001: 17 patents
2002: 8 patents
2002
2003: 4 patents
2004: 6 patents
2005: 12 patents
2005
2006: 5 patents
2007: 7 patents
2008: 5 patents
2008
2009: 3 patents
2010: 5 patents
2011: 2 patents
2011
2012: 4 patents
2013: 5 patents
2014: 10 patents
2014
2015: 6 patents
2016: 5 patents
2017: 1 patents
2017
2018: 3 patents
2019: 9 patents
2020: 8 patents
2020
2021: 7 patents
2022: 7 patents
2023: 2 patents
2023
2024: 1 patents
2025: 2 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Methode Electronics
All Time
Showing
51–100
of
253
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
#37
Thomas Joseph Wand
4
#37
Tim Hazzard
4
#37
William F. Swisher
4
#54
Andy A. Goryachev
3
#54
Andrew Niedert
3
#54
Arnold A. Brevick
3
#54
Cathy J. Edgerton
3
#54
David J. Danielson
3
#54
Edward C. Topel
3
#54
Frank St. John
3
#54
Gerald J. Ingles
3
#54
Gregory Van Vooren
3
#54
Ian C. Sage
3
#54
Jaime Duran
3
#54
James J. Farquhar
3
#54
James M. Kudla
3
#54
Joseph M. Creeden
3
#54
John Andrew DeFranco
3
#54
Lawrence T. Rupert
3
#54
Leonid Shatskin
3
#54
Michael Shahan
3
#54
Philip W. Kithil
3
#54
Raymond B. Simons
3
#54
Robert S. Baker
3
#54
Robert M. Schmidt
3
#54
Roger E. Weiss
3
#54
Scott Herbert
3
#54
Steven R. Hoskins
3
#54
Timothy J. Moran
3
#54
Vincent J. Palecek
3
#54
William J. McGinley
3
#54
William L. Zuckerman
3
#83
Alan J. Wallenberg
2
#83
Anton Rogness
2
#83
Azizur Rahaman
2
#83
Brent A. Moormann
2
#83
Brandt Weibezahn
2
#83
Brandt Weibezhan
2
#83
Charles Bruce Banter
2
#83
Christopher B. Liston
2
#83
Conrad Pastwa
2
#83
Daniel J. DuRocher
2
#83
Daniel J. Du Rocher
2
#83
David Wandler
2
#83
Donald G. Schreiner
2
#83
Elliott Pearson
2
#83
Erik Lee Measel
2
#83
Frank H. Speckhart
2
#83
Gregory Thomas Mark
2
#83
Gregg R. Rapala
2
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