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Wm. Wrigley Jr.
WJ
Wm. Wrigley Jr.
— 579 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#1,450
of
105,732
Top 2%
442
inventors
579
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 30 patents in 2011.
peak 30
1996: 22 patents
1996
1997: 12 patents
1998: 7 patents
1999: 13 patents
1999
2000: 14 patents
2001: 11 patents
2002: 13 patents
2002
2003: 22 patents
2004: 11 patents
2005: 11 patents
2005
2006: 22 patents
2007: 27 patents
2008: 11 patents
2008
2009: 12 patents
2010: 11 patents
2011: 30 patents
2011
2012: 13 patents
2013: 15 patents
2014: 18 patents
2014
2015: 11 patents
2016: 18 patents
2017: 15 patents
2017
2018: 21 patents
2019: 8 patents
2020: 10 patents
2020
2021: 12 patents
2022: 9 patents
2023: 6 patents
2023
2024: 7 patents
2025: 8 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Wm. Wrigley Jr.
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
442
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Michael J. Greenberg
56
2
Joo H. Song
53
2
Robert J. Yatka
53
#4
Ronald L. Ream
46
#5
Kevin B. Broderick
42
#6
Mansukh M. Patel
40
#7
Michael A. Reed
35
#8
David W. Record
34
#9
Gordon N. McGrew
31
#10
Donald J. Townsend
30
#10
Lindell C. Richey
30
#12
David G. Barkalow
28
#12
Philip G. Schnell
28
#14
Henry T. Tyrpin
27
#15
Dennis W. Rybolt
25
#16
Christine L. Corriveau
22
#17
Barbara Stawski
20
#17
Steven E. Zibell
20
#19
Henry Valdez
19
#19
Marc A. Meyers
19
#21
Martin Cervenka
18
#21
Sonya S. Johnson
18
#23
David L. Witkewitz
17
#24
Christopher Rowe
16
#24
David Bruyea
16
#24
Hugh Calvert
16
#24
Wendy Lau
16
#28
Philip M. Soukup
15
#28
Thomas M. Mindak
15
#30
Jeffrey S. Hook
14
#30
Steven P. Synosky
14
#30
William J. Wokas
14
#33
Albert H. Chapdelaine
13
#33
Christopher H. Cunningham
13
#33
Minmin Tian
13
#36
Christafor E. Sundstrom
12
#36
Ingo C. Theurer
12
#36
Stefan Johannes Brehm
12
#39
Adam J. Hunter
11
#39
Daniel J. Zyck
11
#39
Neema Pourian
11
#39
Paul J. Angeloni
11
#43
Jayant C. Dave
10
#43
James Maxwell
10
#43
Jingping Liu
10
#46
Fred R. Wolf
9
#46
Julius W. Zuehlke
9
#46
Philip Urnezis
9
#49
David Jaggi
8
#49
Jonathan Edward Rathbone
8
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