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Target Brands
— 1,964 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#434
of
105,732
Top 1%
1,696
inventors
Fortune 500
#37
(2024)
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Inventor 500 →
1,964
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 175 patents in 2014.
peak 175
2000: 2 patents
2000
2001: 13 patents
2002: 8 patents
2003: 1 patents
2003
2004: 1 patents
2005: 1 patents
2006: 9 patents
2006
2007: 41 patents
2008: 54 patents
2009: 51 patents
2009
2010: 102 patents
2011: 109 patents
2012: 145 patents
2012
2013: 150 patents
2014: 175 patents
2015: 136 patents
2015
2016: 113 patents
2017: 80 patents
2018: 61 patents
2018
2019: 76 patents
2020: 92 patents
2021: 102 patents
2021
2022: 131 patents
2023: 115 patents
2024: 122 patents
2024
2025: 74 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Target Brands
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
1,696
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
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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