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Sonoco Development
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Sonoco Development
— 631 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#1,346
of
105,732
Top 2%
354
inventors
631
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 44 patents in 2017.
peak 44
1999: 8 patents
1999
2000: 27 patents
2001: 24 patents
2002: 25 patents
2002
2003: 19 patents
2004: 20 patents
2005: 15 patents
2005
2006: 25 patents
2007: 21 patents
2008: 12 patents
2008
2009: 11 patents
2010: 18 patents
2011: 15 patents
2011
2012: 15 patents
2013: 18 patents
2014: 14 patents
2014
2015: 25 patents
2016: 20 patents
2017: 44 patents
2017
2018: 34 patents
2019: 41 patents
2020: 33 patents
2020
2021: 24 patents
2022: 30 patents
2023: 38 patents
2023
2024: 40 patents
2025: 15 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Sonoco Development
All Time
Showing
51–100
of
354
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
#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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