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Rank (All Time):
#394
of 106,127
Top 1%
2,828 inventors
2,173
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at USDA
All Time
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Patrick F. Dowd
23
2
Larry H. Stanker
22
3
Chad E. Finn
20
#4
David M. Donovan
18
#5
George F. Fanta
18
#6
Manuel V. Borca
18
#7
Terrence P. McGovern
17
#8
Kevin B. Hicks
16
#9
Robert K. Vander Meer
16
#10
Gregory M. Glenn
15
#11
Norman J. Stern
15
#12
Robert J. Harper, Jr.
15
#13
William M. Doane
15
#14
Donald T. Wicklow
14
#15
Gregory L. Cote
14
#16
Moon S. Kim
14
#17
John R. DeLoach
13
#18
Matias B. Vanotti
13
#19
Patricia J. Slininger
13
#20
Robert J. Ross
13
#21
William S. Anthony
13
#22
Ariel A. Szogi
13
#23
Baruch S. Shasha
12
#24
Eugene J. Blanchard
12
#25
Felicito Guerrero
12
#26
James B. Gloer
12
#27
Juan A. Morales-Ramos
12
#28
Maria G. Rojas
12
#29
Ralph Scorza
12
#30
Thomas A. Foglia
12
#31
Timothy D. Leathers
12
#32
Arlen W. Frank
12
#33
Boris V. Eruslanov
11
#34
Charles Wilson
11
#35
David A. Schisler
11
#36
Edward A. Svetoch
11
#37
Kelly M. Lager
11
#38
Phillip H. Klesius
11
#39
Robert A. Moreau
11
#40
Terry Isbell
11
#41
Vladimir P. Levchuk
11
#42
Vladimir V. Perelygin
11
#43
William J. Connick, Jr.
11
#44
Aijun Zhang
11
#45
Cleveland J. Biller
10
#46
David M. Weller
10
#47
Donald L. Peterson
10
#48
Fred M. Tatum
10
#49
James H. Tumlinson, III
10
#50
Kuanglin Chao
10
#51
Mark Jenkins
10
#52
Neil P. Price
10
#53
Philip A. Moore, Jr.
10
#54
Richard G. Powell
10
#55
Robert E. Briggs
10
#56
Robert R. Heath
10
#57
Robert M. Hnasko
10
#58
Sevim Z. Erhan
10
#59
Wolfgang K. Heiland
10
#60
Dawn E. Gundersen-Rindal
9
#61
Dennis E. Gunderson
9
#62
Eugeni V. Mitsevich
9
#63
Gennaro Fazio
9
#64
Guillermo R. Risatti
9
#65
Henry Yokoyama
9
#66
Irina P. Mitsevich
9
#67
James Cummins
9
#68
Joseph C. Dickens
9
#69
John F. Hunt
9
#70
Juergen A. Richt
9
#71
Kenneth M. Doll
9
#72
Kristin D. Bilyeu
9
#73
Man Yeon Choi
9
#74
Rodney J. Bothast
9
#75
Terence Lee Robinson
9
#76
Thomas P. Abbott
9
#77
Thomas W. Jeffries
9
#78
Vina W. Yang
9
#79
Wallace H. Yokoyama
9
#80
William R. Belknap
9
#81
Zengshe Liu
9
#82
Carl E. Schreck
8
#83
Christopher D. Skory
8
#84
Clifford S. Lofgren
8
#85
Clark M. Welch
8
#86
Craig A. Shoemaker
8
#87
David A. Carlson
8
#88
David Johnson
8
#89
David J. Nisbet
8
#90
David W. Ramming
8
#91
Douglas P. Gladue
8
#92
Herbert Sanders Aldwinckle
8
#93
John P. Bannantine
8
#94
Larisa I. Volodina
8
#95
Linda S. Thomashow
8
#96
Michael Haas
8
#97
Olga E. Svetoch
8
#98
Robert Griesbach
8
#99
Steven C. Cermak
8
#100
Tamara Y. Kudryavtseva
8