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Weatherford/Lamb — 1,204 Patents

Rank (All Time): #703 of 105,732Top 1%
852 inventors
1,204 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 153 patents in 2006.peak 1531986: 2 patents19861987: 1 patents1988: 1 patents1992: 3 patents19921993: 3 patents1994: 1 patents1995: 5 patents19951996: 3 patents1997: 5 patents1998: 22 patents19981999: 11 patents2000: 29 patents2001: 27 patents20012002: 59 patents2003: 73 patents2004: 104 patents20042005: 95 patents2006: 153 patents2007: 97 patents20072008: 78 patents2009: 52 patents2010: 82 patents20102011: 75 patents2012: 59 patents2013: 56 patents20132014: 77 patents2015: 19 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 1 patents2020: 1 patents2020

Top Inventors at Weatherford/Lamb All Time

Showing 1–50 of 852 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 David M. Haugen 74
2 Bernd-Georg Pietras 64
3 Neil Andrew Abercrombie Simpson 57
#4 Simon J. Harrall 53
#5 Thomas F. Bailey 47
#6 Richard L. Giroux 46
#7 David J. Brunnert 42
#7 Paul David Metcalfe 42
#9 Robert Coon 34
#10 Lev Ring 29
#11 Alan D. Kersey 28
#12 Karsten Heidecke 27
#13 Frederick T. Tilton 26
#14 Trevor MacDougall 25
#15 Patrick Maguire 24
#15 Thurman B. Carter 24
#17 Daniel L. Gysling 23
#17 Mike A. Luke 23
#19 Corey Hoffman 22
#19 David Hosie 22
#19 David Shahin 22
#22 Don M. Hannegan 21
#22 Domino Taverner 21
#22 Edward M. Dowd 21
#22 John J. Grunbeck 21
#26 Albert C. Odell, II 20
#26 Martin A. Putnam 20
#28 Gregory G. Galloway 19
#28 James W. Chambers 19
#28 James Dunphy 19
#28 Kevin L. Gray 19
#28 Paul E. Sanders 19
#28 Patrick J. Zimmerman 19
#34 Roddie R. Smith 18
#35 Alexander Craig Mackay 17
#35 Espen S. Johansen 17
#35 Neil A. A. Simpson 17
#38 David Hirth 16
#38 Paul James Wilson 16
#38 Richard T. Jones 16
#38 Rocky A. Turley 16
#38 Tarald Gudmestad 16
#38 Wayne Rudd 16
#44 Guy L. McClung, III 15
#44 Tuong Thanh Le 15
#46 Craig Fishbeck 14
#46 Gary Thompson 14
#46 Gerald Pedersen 14
#46 Jeffrey J. Lembcke 14
#46 John D. Roberts 14

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