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The Kroger
— 28 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#21,906
of
105,732
Top 25%
62
inventors
Fortune 500
#27
(2025)
·
Inventor 500 →
28
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2009.
peak 5
1980: 2 patents
1980
1986: 1 patents
1987: 1 patents
1987
2002: 1 patents
2003: 1 patents
2003
2006: 1 patents
2008: 2 patents
2008
2009: 5 patents
2010: 2 patents
2010
2011: 4 patents
2012: 2 patents
2012
2021: 1 patents
2022: 1 patents
2022
2024: 1 patents
2025: 3 patents
2025
Top Inventors at The Kroger
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
62
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Addison Carter
4
1
Adam Rigby
4
1
Brendan Payne
4
1
Chris Daniels
4
1
Connor Rahm
4
1
Fernando Eli Garcia
4
1
Michael Jordan
4
1
Noe Alvarez
4
1
Olivia North
4
1
Seth Blovits
4
#11
David Ciancio
3
#11
James A. Sonon
3
#11
Wayne Benson
3
#14
David Hopson
2
#14
David R. Stevenson
2
#14
Gregory M. Goosman
2
#14
James Todd Shofner
2
#14
Jeffrey Gray
2
#14
Joshua Alen Marsh
2
#14
Robert Woolf
2
#21
Lauren K. Fariello
1
#21
Gary Van Hoagland
1
#21
Adrian Coy
1
#21
Allison Dolores Baker
1
#21
Alex Myers
1
#21
Annesleigh H. Bengtson
1
#21
Arthur P. Bruce
1
#21
Benjamin G. Marston
1
#21
Bruce E. Gregory
1
#21
Brad D. Jewell
1
#21
Daniel Deganis
1
#21
Dennis Herndon
1
#21
Edward J. Korfhagen
1
#21
Frederick N. Lancia
1
#21
Gregory J. Freeman
1
#21
H. Richard Homan
1
#21
Harold William Porginski, Jr.
1
#21
Jack Grosskopf
1
#21
James E. Schiesler
1
#21
James R. Stewart
1
#21
Jeffrey D. Edwards
1
#21
Joseph M. Keller
1
#21
Joshua Marsh
1
#21
Kevin Doughtery
1
#21
Kemberly S. Keys
1
#21
Kimberly Keys
1
#21
Lauren A. Washington
1
#21
Leonard F. Dearth
1
#21
Mark Hinds
1
#21
Richard J. Hall
1
1
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