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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
151–200
of
354
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
#119
James Kick
2
#119
James Scannella
2
#119
Jay Weinberg
2
#119
James Wilkinson
2
#119
Jean-Paul Languillat
2
#119
John F. Hunt
2
#119
Jon Novak
2
#119
John G. Olmsted, Jr.
2
#119
Karen Berard
2
#119
Kenneth Maltas
2
#119
Kwang-Wei Ho
2
#119
Laura BuenAbad
2
#119
Lewis Nelson
2
#119
Luigi Taranto
2
#119
Mark Brasel
2
#119
Matthew Meister
2
#119
Mark Morrow
2
#119
Markus Sünger
2
#119
Marcy Thompson
2
#119
Mary Katherine Truitt
2
#119
Mark Urban
2
#119
Mark Velicer
2
#119
Marion H. Weatherford
2
#119
Milorad Radenovic
2
#119
Michael Lee Thompson
2
#119
Paul N. Georgelos
2
#119
Pat Montefusco
2
#119
Ray Adams
2
#119
Richard Floyd Anderson
2
#119
Ricardo Costa
2
#119
Richard F. Jaisle
2
#119
Richard M. Lowman, Jr.
2
#119
Rick Markson
2
#119
Ronald F. Worden
2
#119
Steve Gendreau
2
#119
Terry Gerhardt
2
#119
Thomas J. Setty
2
#119
William David Decker
2
#119
William P. Sammons
2
#119
Yiming Wang
2
#119
Zheming Xia
2
#192
Patrick Trevanion
1
#192
Gerald Gainey
1
#192
Mark Kubishta
1
#192
Varadarajan Krishnaraj
1
#192
Aaron S. Reike
1
#192
Adrienne N. Lynn
1
#192
Allen Ray Bell
1
#192
Arthur Samoylovich
1
#192
Benjamin Philip Goodman
1
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