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Sonoco Development — 631 Patents

Rank (All Time): #1,346 of 105,732Top 2%
354 inventors
631 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 44 patents in 2017.peak 441999: 8 patents19992000: 27 patents2001: 24 patents2002: 25 patents20022003: 19 patents2004: 20 patents2005: 15 patents20052006: 25 patents2007: 21 patents2008: 12 patents20082009: 11 patents2010: 18 patents2011: 15 patents20112012: 15 patents2013: 18 patents2014: 14 patents20142015: 25 patents2016: 20 patents2017: 44 patents20172018: 34 patents2019: 41 patents2020: 33 patents20202021: 24 patents2022: 30 patents2023: 38 patents20232024: 40 patents2025: 15 patents2025

Top Inventors at Sonoco Development All Time

Showing 51–100 of 354 inventors

RankNamePatents
#39 Rod Pettis 6
#39 Scott Huntington Hartley 6
#39 Wim van de Camp 6
#54 Donald Gregory Taylor 5
#54 Edmond L. Fratianni 5
#54 Eric James Watkins 5
#54 John Ellis Bacon 5
#54 John Meeks 5
#54 Slawek Witkowski 5
#54 Subir K. Dey 5
#54 Teddy M. Westphal 5
#54 Travis Figgins 5
#63 Andre C. Smith 4
#63 Donald McArthur 4
#63 Donovan Young 4
#63 Elizabeth Rhue 4
#63 Eugene Smith 4
#63 Ismael A. Hernandez 4
#63 Jamie Lynn Ackerman 4
#63 James J. Peoples 4
#63 John F. Auten 4
#63 John L. Newsome, III 4
#63 Jonathan Eugene Senn 4
#63 John Whitehead 4
#63 John Wrenn 4
#63 Laura Boatwright 4
#63 Michael L. Thornton 4
#63 Neil Roland Davis 4
#63 R. Michael Schock 4
#63 Rebecca Lawson 4
#63 Russell Paul Grabowski 4
#63 Srinivas Nomula 4
#63 Terry W. Smith 4
#84 Alan Richards 3
#84 Allyson Smith 3
#84 C. Robert Ripplinger 3
#84 Cliff Bellum 3
#84 Dave Larsen 3
#84 David McKnight 3
#84 Dieter Quick 3
#84 Diana Kay Rud 3
#84 Harry B. Wilfong, Jr. 3
#84 Howard Coker 3
#84 Ismo Kervinen 3
#84 James E. Gunter 3
#84 Jeanne M. Skaggs 3
#84 Joseph Donald Gagne 3
#84 John Stephan 3
#84 Johannes van de Camp 3
#84 Mark H. Heuer 3

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