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St. Jude Medical — 1,076 Patents

Rank (All Time): #799 of 105,732Top 1%
785 inventors
Fortune 500 #434 (2017) · Inventor 500 →
1,076 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 101 patents in 2019.peak 1011994: 1 patents19941996: 3 patents1997: 2 patents1998: 16 patents19981999: 16 patents2000: 12 patents2001: 16 patents20012002: 11 patents2003: 8 patents2004: 11 patents20042005: 5 patents2006: 1 patents2008: 9 patents20082009: 7 patents2010: 7 patents2011: 9 patents20112012: 20 patents2013: 22 patents2014: 39 patents20142015: 46 patents2016: 64 patents2017: 87 patents20172018: 88 patents2019: 101 patents2020: 97 patents20202021: 75 patents2022: 92 patents2023: 63 patents20232024: 91 patents2025: 50 patents2025

Top Inventors at St. Jude Medical All Time

Showing 1–50 of 785 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Peter N. Braido 163
2 Yousef F. Alkhatib 76
3 Troy T. Tegg 55
#4 Theodore Paul Dale 43
#5 Andrea L. McCarthy 42
#6 Julia A. Schraut 40
#7 Nils Holmstrom 39
#8 Mina S. Fahim 38
#9 Anders Bjorling 37
#10 Aaron J. Chalekian 36
#11 Thomas M. Benson 35
#12 Tracee Eidenschink 33
#13 Kjell Noren 30
#14 Gregory K. Olson 30
#15 Sven-Erik Hedberg 30
#16 Huisun Wang 29
#17 John C. Oslund 29
#18 Cary Hata 28
#19 Alan de la Rama 28
#20 Ralph Joseph Thomas 28
#21 Kent J. Smith 27
#22 Jacob John Daly 27
#23 Karin Jarverud 26
#24 Andreas Blomqvist 26
#25 Carlo Pappone 25
#26 Valerie J. Glazier 25
#27 Paul E. Ashworth 25
#28 Brian Joseph Perszyk 24
#29 John W. Sliwa 24
#30 Don Curtis Deno 24
#31 Rolf Hill 23
#32 Mathias Charles Glimsdale 23
#33 Kurt Amplatz 22
#34 Valtino X. Afonso 21
#35 Kristopher Henry Vietmeier 20
#36 Kristen T. Morin 20
#37 Xiaoping Gu 20
#38 Guy P. Vanney 20
#39 Michael J. Girard 20
#40 Matthew F. Ogle 19
#41 Kurt D. Krueger 19
#42 Ryan Kenneth Buesseler 19
#43 Stephen A. Morse 19
#44 Martin Obel 18
#45 Andrea N. Para 18
#46 Dennis W. Wahr 18
#47 Brett Allen Hillukka 18
#48 Benjamin E. Morris 18
#49 Thomas V. Ressemann 17
#50 Peter T. Keith 17

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