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Washington University
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Washington University
— 1,260 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#658
of
105,732
Top 1%
1,596
inventors
University
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1,260
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 79 patents in 2024.
peak 79
1996: 21 patents
1996
1997: 24 patents
1998: 43 patents
1999: 61 patents
1999
2000: 37 patents
2001: 41 patents
2002: 30 patents
2002
2003: 24 patents
2004: 20 patents
2005: 18 patents
2005
2006: 21 patents
2007: 16 patents
2008: 14 patents
2008
2009: 16 patents
2010: 17 patents
2011: 25 patents
2011
2012: 25 patents
2013: 37 patents
2014: 31 patents
2014
2015: 31 patents
2016: 51 patents
2017: 44 patents
2017
2018: 45 patents
2019: 49 patents
2020: 65 patents
2020
2021: 69 patents
2022: 57 patents
2023: 54 patents
2023
2024: 79 patents
2025: 50 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Washington University
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
1,596
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
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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