Top Inventors at Zippo Manufacturing All Time
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian J. Barber | 13 |
| 2 | James M. McDonough | 10 |
| 3 | Gary A. Doster | 8 |
| #4 | Howard Tripp | 8 |
| #5 | Neal P. Barnes | 7 |
| #6 | Ronald J. Meister | 7 |
| #7 | Michael W. Johnson | 4 |
| #8 | Craig M. Saunders | 3 |
| #9 | Elie Papiernik | 3 |
| #10 | Donald W. Murray | 2 |
| #11 | Frank Zanghi | 2 |
| #12 | James A. Hofman | 2 |
| #13 | Lindsey Tufts, Jr. | 2 |
| #14 | Louis V. Aronson, II | 2 |
| #15 | Robert N. Shelton | 2 |
| #16 | Shaun M. Panek | 2 |
| #17 | Tjeerd Dijkstra | 2 |
| #18 | Adam Grabicki | 2 |
| #19 | Charles Peter Althoff | 1 |
| #20 | Charles J. Duke | 1 |
| #21 | Chun Chieh Hu | 1 |
| #22 | David J. Boll | 1 |
| #23 | Daniel R. Ferrara, Jr. | 1 |
| #24 | Hideo Fujisawa | 1 |
| #25 | Jeffrey M. Kalman | 1 |
| #26 | Marc Vitantonio | 1 |
| #27 | Michael P. O'Toole | 1 |
| #28 | Michael C. Story | 1 |
| #29 | Paul Adams | 1 |
| #30 | Yu-Wei Hsu | 1 |
| #31 | Justan D. Studley | 1 |
| #32 | Bruce Michael Pfeil | 1 |
| #33 | Lewis J. Zande | 1 |
| #34 | Treed Dijkstra | 1 |
| #35 | Lutrelle P. Wassmann | 1 |
| #36 | Arthur R. Hamilton | 1 |