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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Target Brands — 1,964 Patents

Rank (All Time): #434 of 105,732Top 1%
1,696 inventors
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1,964 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 175 patents in 2014.peak 1752000: 2 patents20002001: 13 patents2002: 8 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents2006: 9 patents20062007: 41 patents2008: 54 patents2009: 51 patents20092010: 102 patents2011: 109 patents2012: 145 patents20122013: 150 patents2014: 175 patents2015: 136 patents20152016: 113 patents2017: 80 patents2018: 61 patents20182019: 76 patents2020: 92 patents2021: 102 patents20212022: 131 patents2023: 115 patents2024: 122 patents20242025: 74 patents2025

Top Inventors at Target Brands All Time

Showing 1–50 of 1,696 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Jeremy A. Clark 124
2 Sara L. Pedersen 88
3 Timothy J. Martell 79
#4 Jason W. Johnson 69
#5 Ted C. Halbur 68
#6 William Y. Stafford 67
#7 Timothy P. Clegg 63
#8 Richard P. Riedel 62
#9 Scott E. Denby 61
#10 Jennifer A. Theisen 57
#11 Terrence J. Hornsby, Jr. 54
#12 Joseph R. Stukenberg 53
#13 Kent D. Katterheinrich 49
#13 Robert D. Peota 49
#15 Primoz Samardzija 48
#16 Erin L. Zobel 47
#17 Michael A. Whittier 46
#18 Stacy Abel 45
#19 David H. Cheney 44
#20 Chad M. Bogdan 42
#21 Laura L. Hawkins 38
#22 Austyn Dunham 37
#23 Daniel J. Hoyord 36
#24 Elizabeth C. Kern 35
#24 Michael M. Habig 35
#26 Stephanie A. Grotta 32
#27 Blake M. Johnson 31
#27 Erin M. Borkowski 31
#29 Katherine R. Wittenberg 30
#30 William D. Splain 29
#31 Nick Q. Trinh 28
#32 Thomas P. Kuehn 26
#33 Joshua A. Hughes 25
#33 Ryan McCoy 25
#33 Scott A. Meyer 25
#36 Chad R. Gourley 24
#36 George K. Smithwick 24
#36 Gregory M. Nations 24
#39 Alex K. Poniatowski 23
#39 Christopher S. Case 23
#39 Patrick Douglas 23
#42 Adam W. Reynolds 20
#42 Allan Cameron 20
#42 Alexandre Hennen 20
#42 Mitchell Knoll 20
#46 Amanda Miller 19
#46 Daniel G. Engelby 19
#46 Mariya Kroshinskaya 19
#46 Robert G. Logan 19
#46 William Peterson 19

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