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WU

Washington University — 1,260 Patents

Rank (All Time): #658 of 105,732Top 1%
1,596 inventors
1,260 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 79 patents in 2024.peak 791996: 21 patents19961997: 24 patents1998: 43 patents1999: 61 patents19992000: 37 patents2001: 41 patents2002: 30 patents20022003: 24 patents2004: 20 patents2005: 18 patents20052006: 21 patents2007: 16 patents2008: 14 patents20082009: 16 patents2010: 17 patents2011: 25 patents20112012: 25 patents2013: 37 patents2014: 31 patents20142015: 31 patents2016: 51 patents2017: 44 patents20172018: 45 patents2019: 49 patents2020: 65 patents20202021: 69 patents2022: 57 patents2023: 54 patents20232024: 79 patents2025: 50 patents2025

Top Inventors at Washington University All Time

Showing 1–50 of 1,596 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Eric Leuthardt 34
2 Lihong Wang 29
3 Jeffrey Milbrandt 28
#4 Douglas Covey 27
#4 Matthew R. MacEwan 27
#6 Irving Boime 24
#7 Igor R. Efimov 21
#7 Robert H. Mach 21
#9 Jeffrey I. Gordon 20
#9 Ronald S. Indeck 20
#9 Scott Hultgren 20
#12 Samuel A. Wickline 18
#13 Samuel Achilefu 17
#14 Gregory M. Lanza 16
#14 Paul T. Kotzbauer 16
#14 Steven P. Adams 16
#17 Eugene M. Johnson, Jr. 15
#17 Mark Allen Franklin 15
#17 Stanley J. Korsmeyer 15
#17 Zhude Tu 15
#21 Jonathan S. Turner 14
#21 Patricia A. Lampe 14
#21 Sasa Mutic 14
#21 Younan Xia 14
#25 David Holtzman 13
#25 Lan Yang 13
#27 Charles M. Rice 12
#27 Daniel W. Moran 12
#27 Guy Genin 12
#27 Herbert W. Virgin 12
#27 Jingwei Xie 12
#27 John W. Olney 12
#27 Konstantin Maslov 12
#27 Sondra Schlesinger 12
#27 Srikanth Singamaneni 12
#36 Ajit Janardhan 11
#36 Alan Pestronk 11
#36 Wenwen Li 11
#36 William G. Hawkins 11
#40 Abraham Z. Snyder 10
#40 Daved Fremont 10
#40 Joseph W. St. Geme, III 10
#40 Richard Axelbaum 10
#40 Roger D. Chamberlain 10
#40 Ron K. Cytron 10
#40 Sahin Kaya Ozdemir 10
#40 Shantanu Chakrabartty 10
#40 Stephen J. Barenkamp 10
#40 Zack Ray 10
#50 Dipanjan Pan 9

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