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University of Minnesota
UM
University of Minnesota
— 2,277 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#374
of
106,120
Top 1%
2,951
inventors
2,277
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at University of Minnesota
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
2,951
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Jian-Ping Wang
63
2
Michael G. Garwood
39
3
Robert Vince
38
#4
Georgios B. Giannakis
35
#5
Leo T. Furcht
33
#6
Kamil Ugurbil
32
#6
Marc A. Hillmyer
32
#8
Gary L. Nelsestuen
29
#9
Frank S. Bates
28
#9
Yanfeng Jiang
28
#11
Catherine M. Verfaillie
26
#11
Steen Moeller
26
#13
Arthur G. Erdman
22
#13
Hongfei Jia
22
#13
Masahiko Ishii
22
#13
Minjuan Zhang
22
#13
Ping Wang
22
#13
Songtao Wu
22
#13
Stergios I. Roumeliotis
22
#20
George Barany
21
#20
Philip S. Portoghese
21
#22
Bruce R. Blazar
20
#22
David A. Somers
20
#24
Djaudat S. Idiyatullin
19
#25
James Luby
18
#25
Lanny D. Schmidt
18
#27
Andreas Buthe
17
#27
Michael J. Sadowsky
17
#27
Pavel A. Krasutsky
17
#27
Peter W. Carr
17
#31
Ahmed Tewfik
16
#31
Benjamin Y. H. Liu
16
#31
Daniel F. Voytas
16
#31
Robert M. Carlson
16
#31
Steven J. Koester
16
#36
Charles L. Truwit
15
#36
Da-Ren Chen
15
#36
Jaekyun Moon
15
#36
Ned Mohan
15
#36
Swati Sudhakar More
15
#41
Beau Webber
14
#41
Branden Moriarity
14
#41
Frank D. Dorman
14
#41
J. Vaughan
14
#41
Thomas R. Hoye
14
#46
Laura Ranum
13
#46
Patrick M. Schlievert
13
#46
Xiaoli Ma
13
#49
Bo Han
12
#49
Carston R. Wagner
12
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