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Ppg Industries
Rank (All Time):
#399
of 106,127
Top 1%
1,216 inventors
2,146
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at Ppg Industries
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Wen-Hsuan Chang
57
2
Jerome A. Seiner
52
3
Gregory J. McCollum
50
#4
Rostyslaw Dowbenko
49
#5
Suryya K. Das
44
#6
Robert G. Frank
43
#7
Karl F. Schimmel
34
#8
Roger M. Christenson
33
#9
Charles M. Kania
31
#10
Helmut Franz
29
#11
Samuel Porter, Jr.
29
#12
Chia-Cheng Lin
27
#13
Chester S. Temple
27
#14
F. Howard Gillery
26
#15
George R. Claassen
24
#16
Michael T. Fecik
24
#17
Shanti Swarup
24
#18
Mikhail M. Girgis
23
#19
Ronald R. Ambrose
23
#20
Debra L. Singer
22
#21
James B. O'Dwyer
21
#22
Robert H. Tang
21
#23
David T. McKeough
20
#24
John J. Ewing
20
#25
Marvis E. Hartman
20
#26
Russell C. Criss
20
#27
Thomas G. Rukavina
20
#28
Balbhadra Das
19
#29
Harry S. Koontz
19
#30
Paul H. Pettit, Jr.
19
#31
Rudolf Maska
18
#32
Dennis K. Krass
17
#33
James A. Claar
17
#34
Jerome M. Lavanish
17
#35
Ken W. Niederst
17
#36
Paritosh M. Chakrabarti
17
#37
Richard M. Nugent, Jr.
17
#38
Ronald L. Schwenninger
17
#39
Thomas H. Jensen
17
#40
William G. Boberski
17
#41
Yih-Wan Tsai
17
#42
Malcolm Korach
16
#43
Robert M. Piccirilli
16
#44
Samuel L. Seymour
16
#45
Thomas J. Reese
16
#46
William P. Blackburn
16
#47
Barry Van Gemert
15
#48
Donald W. DuBois
15
#49
Gerald E. Kunkle
15
#50
Harlan B. Johnson
15
#51
John F. Krumwiede
15
#52
Joseph T. Valko
15
#53
Thomas G. Krivak
15
#54
James J. Finley
14
#55
John C. Crano
14
#56
Joseph M. Matesa
14
#57
John R. Peffer
14
#58
Kurt G. Olson
14
#59
Larry J. Shelestak
14
#60
Frank H. Gillery
13
#61
Herbert W. Barch
13
#62
James L. Valimont
13
#63
Joseph F. Bosso
13
#64
John F. Grunewalder
13
#65
Joseph M. Makhlouf
13
#66
Jonathan T. Martz
13
#67
Padmanabhan Sundararaman
13
#68
Robert R. Zwack
13
#69
William J. Birkmeyer
13
#70
Charles F. Kahle, II
12
#71
Charles R. Wiedrich
12
#72
Cletus N. Welch
12
#73
Dennis S. Postupack
12
#74
Edward E. McEntire
12
#75
Ernest L. Lawton
12
#76
George A. Pecoraro
12
#77
Gordon F. Pereman
12
#78
John D. Kellar
12
#79
Roger A. Crawford
12
#80
Robert B. Heithoff
12
#81
Stephen J. Schultz
12
#82
Walter J. Reese
12
#83
William B. Darlington
12
#84
Dennis D. Leatherman
11
#85
Henry M. Demarest, Jr.
11
#86
J. Alden Erikson
11
#87
Joseph D. Kelly
11
#88
Marvin L. Kaufman
11
#89
Michael A. Mayo
11
#90
Paul J. Prucnal
11
#91
Peter C. Gaa
11
#92
Richard A. Schwarz
11
#93
Robert M. Hunia
11
#94
Soner Kilic
11
#95
William W. Carlin
11
#96
Charles R. Coleman
10
#97
Charles B. Greenberg
10
#98
George A. Neuman
10
#99
James E. Neely, Jr.
10
#100
James E. Poole
10