| Class | Description | Top Inventors | Number of Patent applications |
|---|
| 002 | Apparel | William L. Grilliot | 4029 |
| 004 | Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons | Joseph R. Cook | 2112 |
| 005 | Beds | David W. Hornbach | 2612 |
| 007 | Compound tools | Spencer Frazer | 199 |
| 008 | Bleaching and dyeing; fluid treatment and chemical modification of textiles and fibers | Bon Kwon Koo | 1210 |
| 012 | Boot and shoe making | Susan L. Sokolowski | 92 |
| 014 | Bridges | David Johnson | 207 |
| 015 | Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning | Wayne Ernest Conrad | 3864 |
| 016 | Miscellaneous hardware (e.g., bushing, carpet fastener, caster, door closer, panel hanger, attachable or adjunct handle, hinge, window sash balance, etc.) | Jin-Xin Wang | 1617 |
| 019 | Textiles: fiber preparation | Thomas Schmitz | 81 |
| 023 | Chemistry: physical processes | Terje Fuglerud | 27 |
| 024 | Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc. | Keiichi Keyaki | 2043 |
| 026 | Textiles: cloth finishing | Maria Francesca Marchesi | 24 |
| 027 | Undertaking | Ilija Rojdev | 131 |
| 028 | Textiles: manufacturing | Andreas Plump | 143 |
| 029 | Metal working | Akito Akimoto | 7398 |
| 030 | Cutlery | Kevin James Wain | 2118 |
| 033 | Geometrical instruments | Bing-Jun Zhang | 1378 |
| 034 | Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids | Andreas Stolze | 1341 |
| 036 | Boots, shoes, and leggings | Michael A. Aveni | 2193 |
| 037 | Excavating | Robert N. Gamble, Ii | 532 |
| 038 | Textiles: ironing or smoothing | Yong Jiang | 181 |
| 040 | Card, picture, or sign exhibiting | Tiger Qiao | 1730 |
| 042 | Firearms | Michael T. Mayberry | 1256 |
| 043 | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying | James H. Cink | 1337 |
| 044 | Fuel and related compositions | Paul O'Connor | 1358 |
| 047 | Plant husbandry | Donald E. Weder | 1297 |
| 048 | Gas: heating and illuminating | Earl T. Robinson | 551 |
| 049 | Movable or removable closures | Mario M. Marocco | 1728 |
| 051 | Abrasive tool making process, material, or composition | Chien-Min Sung | 382 |
| 052 | Static structures (e.g., buildings) | Darko Pervan | 6991 |
| 053 | Package making | Donald E. Weder | 2319 |
| 054 | Harness for working animal | Garrett N. Ford | 125 |
| 055 | Gas separation | Jang-Keun Oh | 1136 |
| 056 | Harvesters | Randy Lohrentz | 985 |
| 057 | Textiles: spinning, twisting, and twining | Chia-Te Chou | 220 |
| 059 | Chain, staple, and horseshoe making | Shoichiro Komiya | 104 |
| 060 | Power plants | Eugene V. Gonze | 9822 |
| 062 | Refrigeration | Michael F. Taras | 6566 |
| 063 | Jewelry | Roni Rydlewicz | 393 |
| 065 | Glass manufacturing | Andrey V. Filippov | 1131 |
| 066 | Textiles: knitting | Tiberio Lonati | 230 |
| 068 | Textiles: fluid treating apparatus | Ig Geun Kwon | 783 |
| 069 | Leather manufactures | Jens Hedegaard | 14 |
| 070 | Locks | Toshiharu Katagiri | 1500 |
| 071 | Chemistry: fertilizers | John Larry Sanders | 371 |
| 072 | Metal deforming | Sergey Fedorovich Golovashchenko | 1951 |
| 073 | Measuring and testing | Anthony D. Kurtz | 11370 |
| 074 | Machine element or mechanism | Bo Long | 4433 |
| 075 | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures | Robert Millner | 1033 |
| 076 | Metal tools and implements, making | John H. Stevens | 85 |
| 081 | Tools | Bobby Hu | 1613 |
| 082 | Turning | Takanobu Akiyama | 241 |
| 083 | Cutting | Stephen F. Gass | 2243 |
| 084 | Music | Kenneth R. Lemons | 1835 |
| 086 | Ammunition and explosive-charge making | Ryusuke Kitamura | 80 |
| 087 | Textiles: braiding, netting, and lace making | Stephen J. Kryven | 46 |
| 089 | Ordnance | David L. Hunn | 1085 |
| 091 | Motors: expansible chamber type | Takumi Matsumoto | 296 |
| 092 | Expansible chamber devices | Rainer Scharp | 553 |
| 095 | Gas separation: processes | Harry W. Deckman | 1692 |
| 096 | Gas separation: apparatus | Toshio Tanaka | 952 |
| 099 | Foods and beverages: apparatus | Jean-Luc Denisart | 1940 |
| 100 | Presses | Christopher J. Lanning | 503 |
| 101 | Printing | Georg Schneider | 1806 |
| 102 | Ammunition and explosives | Jahangir S. Rastegar | 925 |
| 104 | Railways | David W. Crawford | 386 |
| 105 | Railway rolling stock | James W. Forbes | 432 |
| 106 | Compositions: coating or plastic | Brent R. Constantz | 2094 |
| 108 | Horizontally supported planar surfaces | William P. Apps | 837 |
| 109 | Safes, bank protection, or a related device | Peter Villiger | 120 |
| 110 | Furnaces | Toshihiko Yamada | 572 |
| 111 | Planting | Michael E. Friestad | 385 |
| 112 | Sewing | Masashi Tokura | 434 |
| 114 | Ships | Frank M. Stewart | 1423 |
| 116 | Signals and indicators | Dene H. Taylor | 503 |
| 117 | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor | Hiroshi Kishi | 682 |
| 118 | Coating apparatus | Shao-Kai Pei | 2186 |
| 119 | Animal husbandry | Karel Van Den Berg | 2704 |
| 122 | Liquid heaters and vaporizers | Jan Brückner | 509 |
| 123 | Internal-combustion engines | Ross Dykstra Pursifull | 8128 |
| 124 | Mechanical guns and projectors | Richard L. Bednar | 700 |
| 125 | Stone working | Koji Kitagawa | 211 |
| 126 | Stoves and furnaces | David Deng | 2190 |
| 127 | Sugar, starch, and carbohydrates | Sunalie N. Hillier | 139 |
| 128 | Surgery | Philip Rodney Kwok | 4733 |
| 131 | Tobacco | Michael Francis Dube | 879 |
| 132 | Toilet | Nghi Van Nguyen | 1723 |
| 134 | Cleaning and liquid contact with solids | Helmut Jerg | 3937 |
| 135 | Tent, canopy, umbrella, or cane | Oliver Joen-An Ma | 886 |
| 136 | Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric | Devendra K. Sadana | 7446 |
| 137 | Fluid handling | Nobukazu Ikeda | 5573 |
| 138 | Pipes and tubular conduits | Larry W. Kiest, Jr. | 1271 |
| 139 | Textiles: weaving | Francisco Speich | 216 |
| 140 | Wireworking | Takahiro Nagaoka | 115 |
| 141 | Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting means | Ludwig Clüsserath | 1492 |
| 142 | Wood turning | Stuart Batty | 6 |
| 144 | Woodworking | Bor-Yann Chuang | 431 |
| 147 | Coopering | Breck Waterman | 6 |
| 148 | Metal treatment | Tatsuhiko Eguchi | 1869 |
| 149 | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges | Graylon K. Williams | 182 |
| 150 | Purses, wallets, and protective covers | Kimberlee Vaccarella | 328 |
| 152 | Resilient tires and wheels | Paul Harry Sandstrom | 2028 |
| 156 | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture | Maurizio Marchini | 7179 |
| 157 | Wheelwright machines | Lawrence J. Lawson | 114 |
| 159 | Concentrating evaporators | Bernard F. Duesel, Jr. | 67 |
| 160 | Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel | Tzong Fu Lin | 1335 |
| 162 | Paper making and fiber liberation | Stephen J. Mccullough | 1487 |
| 163 | Needle and pin making | Tatsuya Okada | 4 |
| 164 | Metal founding | Steven J. Bullied | 967 |
| 165 | Heat exchange | Chun-Chi Chen | 5358 |
| 166 | Wells | Michael H. Johnson | 7191 |
| 168 | Farriery | Alan Dale | 45 |
| 169 | Fire extinguishers | Robert G. Dunster | 700 |
| 171 | Unearthing plants or buried objects | Yasuji Hashimoto | 18 |
| 172 | Earth working | Michael G. Kovach | 543 |
| 173 | Tool driving or impacting | Heiko Roehm | 1082 |
| 174 | Electricity: conductors and insulators | Shou-Kuo Hsu | 6979 |
| 175 | Boring or penetrating the earth | David R. Hall | 2478 |
| 177 | Weighing scales | Shigeru Endo | 422 |
| 178 | Telegraphy | Kia Silverbrook | 379 |
| 180 | Motor vehicles | Hiroshi Gomi | 3566 |
| 181 | Acoustics | Joel D. Brewer | 978 |
| 182 | Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold | Thomas W. Parker | 977 |
| 184 | Lubrication | Zdravko Paluncic | 361 |
| 185 | Motors: spring, weight, or animal powered | Gideon Rory Levingston | 35 |
| 186 | Merchandising | Michael S. Notheis | 29 |
| 187 | Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle | Takaharu Ueda | 984 |
| 188 | Brakes | Johann Baumgartner | 2045 |
| 190 | Trunks and hand-carried luggage | Kiran Joseph | 282 |
| 191 | Electricity: transmission to vehicles | Gunnar Asplund | 110 |
| 192 | Clutches and power-stop control | Farzad Samie | 1634 |
| 193 | Conveyors, chutes, skids, guides, and ways | Derral Jay Allen | 90 |
| 194 | Check-actuated control mechanisms | Takao Nireki | 251 |
| 196 | Mineral oils: apparatus | Colin G. Caro | 36 |
| 198 | Conveyors: power-driven | Matthew L. Fourney | 2107 |
| 200 | Electricity: circuit makers and breakers | Chao Chen | 2410 |
| 201 | Distillation: processes, thermolytic | Ronald Kim | 184 |
| 202 | Distillation: apparatus | Andrew A. Schnellinger | 213 |
| 203 | Distillation: processes, separatory | R. Jay Warner | 382 |
| 204 | Chemistry: electrical and wave energy | Vamsee K. Pamula | 4326 |
| 205 | Electrolysis: processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions | Benjamin J. Feldman | 3110 |
| 206 | Special receptacle or package | Daniel Lee Bizzell | 5656 |
| 208 | Mineral oils: processes and products | Omer Refa Koseoglu | 1670 |
| 209 | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids | Armin Zimmermann | 998 |
| 210 | Liquid purification or separation | Robert W. Childers | 8129 |
| 211 | Supports: racks | Stephen N. Hardy | 1850 |
| 212 | Traversing hoists | Hans-Dieter Willim | 339 |
| 213 | Railway draft appliances | Jerry R. Smerecky | 76 |
| 215 | Bottles and jars | Takao Iizuka | 1198 |
| 216 | Etching a substrate: processes | Masatoshi Sakurai | 1745 |
| 217 | Wooden receptacles | Donald Obergoenner | 15 |
| 218 | High-voltage switches with arc preventing or extinguishing devices | Kenji Tsuchiya | 322 |
| 219 | Electric heating | Shou-Shan Fan | 5504 |
| 220 | Receptacles | Daniel Lee Bizzell | 5324 |
| 221 | Article dispensing | Aaron L. Bates | 961 |
| 222 | Dispensing | Heiner Ophardt | 3309 |
| 223 | Apparel apparatus | Stanley F. Gouldson | 321 |
| 224 | Package and article carriers | Chris Sautter | 1883 |
| 225 | Severing by tearing or breaking | Chi-Tsai Chang | 176 |
| 226 | Advancing material of indeterminate length | Mark Lycette | 167 |
| 227 | Elongated-member-driving apparatus | Frederick E. Shelton, Iv | 1550 |
| 228 | Metal fusion bonding | Peter A. Gruber | 1159 |
| 229 | Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes | Jean-Manuel Gomes | 975 |
| 231 | Whips and whip apparatus | Per Ib Rosendal Andersen | 4 |
| 232 | Deposit and collection receptacles | David J. Bolles | 56 |
| 234 | Selective cutting (e.g., punching) | Anthony A. Breen, Jr. | 8 |
| 235 | Registers | Paul Lapstun | 4902 |
| 236 | Automatic temperature and humidity regulation | Cary Leen | 432 |
| 237 | Heating systems | Michael Reck | 188 |
| 238 | Railways: surface track | Winfried Bösterling | 201 |
| 239 | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing | Huasong Zhou | 3525 |
| 241 | Solid material comminution or disintegration | Charles Sued | 1550 |
| 242 | Winding, tensioning, or guiding | Wataru Yanagawa | 1559 |
| 244 | Aeronautics and astronautics | Alain Porte | 4044 |
| 245 | Wire fabrics and structure | Francesco Ferraiolo | 6 |
| 246 | Railway switches and signals | John Brand | 180 |
| 248 | Supports | Jeffrey D. Carnevali | 5433 |
| 249 | Static molds | Artur Schwoerer | 315 |
| 250 | Radiant energy | Osamu Wakabayashi | 11495 |
| 251 | Valves and valve actuation | Dietmar Kratzer | 2499 |
| 252 | Compositions | Masayuki Saito | 5881 |
| 254 | Implements or apparatus for applying pushing or pulling force | James Kempf | 818 |
| 256 | Fences | Dallas James | 523 |
| 257 | Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes) | Shunpei Yamazaki | 49078 |
| 260 | Chemistry of carbon compounds | Udo Knippenberg | 10 |
| 261 | Gas and liquid contact apparatus | Charles E. Tharp | 495 |
| 264 | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes | Byung-Jin Choi | 6158 |
| 266 | Metallurgical apparatus | Paul V. Cooper | 400 |
| 267 | Spring devices | Hironori Koyama | 861 |
| 269 | Work holders | Takayuki Kawakami | 877 |
| 270 | Sheet-material associating | Katsuya Sasahara | 433 |
| 271 | Sheet feeding or delivering | Lloyd A. Williams | 2341 |
| 273 | Amusement devices: games | Attila Grauzer | 1742 |
| 277 | Seal for a joint or juncture | Glenn M. Garrison | 1773 |
| 279 | Chucks or sockets | Hans-Dieter Mack | 389 |
| 280 | Land vehicles | Osamu Fukawatase | 6652 |
| 281 | Books, strips, and leaves | David C.t. Jour | 230 |
| 283 | Printed matter | Pierre Degott | 576 |
| 285 | Pipe joints or couplings | Peter C. Williams | 2004 |
| 289 | Knots and knot tying | Cheong Choon Ng | 29 |
| 290 | Prime-mover dynamo plants | Henrik Stiesdal | 3442 |
| 291 | Track sanders | Werner Bartling | 8 |
| 292 | Closure fasteners | Dieter Ramsauer | 1068 |
| 293 | Vehicle fenders | Christian Handing | 387 |
| 294 | Handling: hand and hoist-line implements | Giuseppe Maffeis | 900 |
| 295 | Railway wheels and axles | Daniel Hunter Stone | 17 |
| 296 | Land vehicles: bodies and tops | Udo Mildner | 4075 |
| 297 | Chairs and seats | Larry P. Lapointe | 4382 |
| 298 | Land vehicles: dumping | Bobby Rogers | 85 |
| 299 | Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material | David R. Hall | 399 |
| 300 | Brush, broom, and mop making | Sung-Hwan Kwon | 36 |
| 301 | Land vehicles: wheels and axles | Raphael Schlanger | 780 |
| 303 | Fluid-pressure and analogous brake systems | Kunimichi Hatano | 576 |
| 305 | Wheel substitutes for land vehicles | Mark S. Diekevers | 224 |
| 307 | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems | Marin Soljacic | 4920 |
| 310 | Electrical generator or motor structure | Alex Horng | 7996 |
| 312 | Supports: cabinet structure | Karl-Friedrich Laible | 2200 |
| 313 | Electric lamp and discharge devices | Satoshi Seo | 5470 |
| 315 | Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems | John L. Melanson | 7115 |
| 318 | Electricity: motive power systems | Steven E. Schulz | 3607 |
| 320 | Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging | Shinji Ichikawa | 4476 |
| 322 | Electricity: single generator systems | Harumi Horihata | 335 |
| 323 | Electricity: power supply or regulation systems | Weihong Qiu | 3796 |
| 324 | Electricity: measuring and testing | Udo Ausserlechner | 11891 |
| 326 | Electronic digital logic circuitry | Steven Teig | 1859 |
| 327 | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems | Yantao Ma | 8351 |
| 329 | Demodulators | Daisuke Yamazaki | 72 |
| 330 | Amplifiers | Yoo Sam Na | 2848 |
| 331 | Oscillators | Taku Aoyama | 1616 |
| 332 | Modulators | Zdravko Lukic | 202 |
| 333 | Wave transmission lines and networks | Hiroyuki Nakamura | 2739 |
| 334 | Tuners | Chirn Chye Boon | 41 |
| 335 | Electricity: magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets | Larry W. Fullerton | 1227 |
| 336 | Inductor devices | Benjamin Weber | 1538 |
| 337 | Electricity: electrothermally or thermally actuated switches | Matthew R. Darr | 357 |
| 338 | Electrical resistors | Clark L. Smith | 331 |
| 340 | Communications: electrical | Lowell L. Wood, Jr. | 15508 |
| 341 | Coded data generation or conversion | Jong Kee Kwon | 3273 |
| 342 | Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) | Charles Abraham | 4258 |
| 343 | Communications: radio wave antennas | Perry Jarmuszewski | 5270 |
| 345 | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems | Katsuhide Uchino | 33683 |
| 346 | Recorders | Klaus Hug | 20 |
| 347 | Incremental printing of symbolic information | Kia Silverbrook | 10534 |
| 348 | Television | Kia Silverbrook | 26970 |
| 349 | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems | Jae-Jin Lyu | 8858 |
| 351 | Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting | Ronald D. Blum | 2436 |
| 352 | Optics: motion pictures | Dean K. Goodhill | 54 |
| 353 | Optics: image projectors | Koji Hirata | 2202 |
| 355 | Photocopying | Yuichi Shibazaki | 2770 |
| 356 | Optics: measuring and testing | Yuta Urano | 8045 |
| 358 | Facsimile and static presentation processing | Kia Silverbrook | 11423 |
| 359 | Optical: systems and elements | Niall R. Lynam | 12763 |
| 360 | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval | Koji Shimazawa | 4263 |
| 361 | Electricity: electrical systems and devices | Li-Ping Chen | 16436 |
| 362 | Illumination | Shao-Han Chang | 12736 |
| 363 | Electric power conversion systems | Ta-Yung Yang | 3386 |
| 365 | Static information storage and retrieval | Frankie F. Roohparvar | 12261 |
| 366 | Agitating | Eugene J. Kozlowski | 1130 |
| 367 | Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices | Peter M. Eick | 1954 |
| 368 | Horology: time measuring systems or devices | Saburo Manaka | 1117 |
| 369 | Dynamic information storage or retrieval | Yoshiaki Komma | 4736 |
| 370 | Multiplex communications | Juan Montojo | 40322 |
| 372 | Coherent light generators | Masaki Ueno | 3118 |
| 373 | Industrial electric heating furnaces | Thomas Matschullat | 101 |
| 374 | Thermal measuring and testing | John A. Lane | 1219 |
| 375 | Pulse or digital communications | Takeshi Chujoh | 18652 |
| 376 | Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements | Roderick A. Hyde | 1109 |
| 377 | Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: circuits and systems | Youichi Tobita | 301 |
| 378 | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices | Yasunori Ohta | 3795 |
| 379 | Telephonic communications | Peeyush Jaiswal | 4166 |
| 380 | Cryptography | Mathieu Ciet | 3445 |
| 381 | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices | Hiroshi Akino | 7783 |
| 382 | Image analysis | Geoffrey B. Rhoads | 18326 |
| 383 | Flexible bags | Robert R. Turvey | 1113 |
| 384 | Bearings | Peter Niebling | 2064 |
| 385 | Optical waveguides | Trevor D. Smith | 5611 |
| 386 | Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing | Hideo Ando | 3618 |
| 388 | Electricity: motor control systems | Hua Zou | 83 |
| 392 | Electric resistance heating devices | Joseph M. Ranish | 566 |
| 396 | Photography | Koji Shibuno | 1930 |
| 398 | Optical communications | Takeshi Hoshida | 5276 |
| 399 | Electrophotography | Shougo Sato | 10043 |
| 400 | Typewriting machines | Koshiro Yamaguchi | 918 |
| 401 | Coating implements with material supply | Jean-Louis Gueret | 1070 |
| 402 | Binder device releasably engaging aperture or notch of sheet | Chun Yuen To | 153 |
| 403 | Joints and connections | Yu-Tao Chen | 1671 |
| 404 | Road structure, process, or apparatus | Martin Buschmann | 892 |
| 405 | Hydraulic and earth engineering | Keith K. Millheim | 2122 |
| 406 | Conveyors: fluid current | Göran Sundholm | 234 |
| 407 | Cutters, for shaping | Gil Hecht | 674 |
| 408 | Cutting by use of rotating axially moving tool | Takuji Nomura | 849 |
| 409 | Gear cutting, milling, or planing | Yoshinori Tatsuda | 476 |
| 410 | Freight accommodation on freight carrier | John D. Anderson | 356 |
| 411 | Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-threaded fastener | Jiri Babej | 1335 |
| 412 | Bookbinding: process and apparatus | Nobuyoshi Suzuki | 243 |
| 413 | Sheet metal container making | Peter Gysi | 52 |
| 414 | Material or article handling | Peter Van Der Meulen | 3291 |
| 415 | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps | Gabriel L. Suciu | 4139 |
| 416 | Fluid reaction surfaces (i.e., impellers) | George Liang | 3830 |
| 417 | Pumps | Ken Suitou | 3688 |
| 418 | Rotary expansible chamber devices | Masanori Masuda | 1108 |
| 419 | Powder metallurgy processes | Hideaki Kawata | 435 |
| 420 | Alloys or metallic compositions | David R. Whitcomb | 1114 |
| 422 | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing | Rayford G. Anthony | 5076 |
| 423 | Chemistry of inorganic compounds | Hartwig Rauleder | 4493 |
| 424 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions | David M. Goldenberg | 46790 |
| 425 | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus | Xiao-Ping Wu | 2094 |
| 426 | Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products | William H. Eby | 8410 |
| 427 | Coating processes | Shunpei Yamazaki | 8834 |
| 428 | Stock material or miscellaneous articles | Cheng-Shi Chen | 25378 |
| 429 | Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process | Norio Takami | 15234 |
| 430 | Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product thereof | Jin Wu | 6720 |
| 431 | Combustion | Patrick Benedict Melton | 1080 |
| 432 | Heating | Takanori Saito | 441 |
| 433 | Dentistry | Eric Kuo | 3158 |
| 434 | Education and demonstration | Robert M. Lofthus | 2968 |
| 435 | Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology | Anthony P. Burgard | 28659 |
| 436 | Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing | Tetsuo Nagano | 3474 |
| 438 | Semiconductor device manufacturing: process | Shunpei Yamazaki | 19484 |
| 439 | Electrical connectors | Jerry Wu | 10099 |
| 440 | Marine propulsion | Daisuke Nakamura | 677 |
| 441 | Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices | Tzong In Yeh | 439 |
| 442 | Fabric (woven, knitted, or nonwoven textile or cloth, etc.) | Martyn Douglas Wakeman | 1587 |
| 445 | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing | Shou-Shan Fan | 594 |
| 446 | Amusement devices: toys | Michael Nuttall | 1402 |
| 449 | Bee culture | Felix Leopold Wackers | 26 |
| 450 | Foundation garments | Zhen Qiang Liu | 350 |
| 451 | Abrading | Boguslaw A. Swedek | 2527 |
| 452 | Butchering | Adrianus Josephes Van Den Nieuwelaar | 327 |
| 453 | Coin handling | Gregory F. String | 76 |
| 454 | Ventilation | Zhen-Xing Ye | 1308 |
| 455 | Telecommunications | Ahmadreza (reza) Rofougaran | 30952 |
| 460 | Crop threshing or separating | Jonathan E. Ricketts | 186 |
| 462 | Books, strips, and leaves for manifolding | Jeffrey William Ross | 3 |
| 463 | Amusement devices: games | Kazumasa Yoshizawa | 8369 |
| 464 | Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for rotary shafts | Seung Tark Oh | 700 |
| 470 | Threaded, headed fastener, or washer making: process and apparatus | Donald E. Bergstrom | 71 |
| 472 | Amusement devices | David W. Crawford | 320 |
| 473 | Games using tangible projectile | Michael J. Sullivan | 4806 |
| 474 | Endless belt power transmission systems or components | Yuji Kurematsu | 1111 |
| 475 | Planetary gear transmission systems or components | James M. Hart | 2034 |
| 476 | Friction gear transmission systems or components | Mitsugi Yamashita | 113 |
| 477 | Interrelated power delivery controls, including engine control | Atsushi Tabata | 1202 |
| 482 | Exercise devices | Leao Wang | 2865 |
| 483 | Tool changing | Daniel Allen Norton | 95 |
| 492 | Roll or roller | Junichi Takano | 149 |
| 493 | Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web | Robert Tegel | 790 |
| 494 | Imperforate bowl: centrifugal separators | Victor D. Dolecek | 308 |
| 501 | Compositions: ceramic | Akio Koike | 1041 |
| 502 | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: product or process of making | Alexander E. Kuperman | 2104 |
| 503 | Record receiver having plural interactive leaves or a colorless color former, method of use, or developer therefor | Gerhard Stork | 162 |
| 504 | Plant protecting and regulating compositions | Christopher Hugh Rosinger | 2041 |
| 505 | Superconductor technology: apparatus, material, process | Rainer Soika | 522 |
| 506 | Combinatorial chemistry technology: method, library, apparatus | Mehdi Azimi | 5334 |
| 507 | Earth boring, well treating, and oil field chemistry | Thomas D. Welton | 888 |
| 508 | Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions | Patrick E. Mosier | 1302 |
| 510 | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions | Johan Smets | 2013 |
| 512 | Perfume compositions | Anthony T. Levorse, Jr. | 101 |
| 514 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions | Anthony W. Czarnik | 41327 |
| 516 | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of | Anubhav Saxena | 130 |
| 518 | Chemistry: fischer-tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof | Charles L. Kibby | 446 |
| 521 | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series | Klaus Hahn | 1598 |
| 522 | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series | Reinhold Schwalm | 710 |
| 523 | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series | Peter Bissinger | 1771 |
| 524 | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series | Bernd Bruchmann | 7049 |
| 525 | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series | Phillip D. Hustad | 3018 |
| 526 | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series | Max P. Mcdaniel | 2448 |
| 527 | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series | Deborah Jean Back | 58 |
| 528 | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series | Joachim C. Ritter | 1791 |
| 530 | Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof | Kevin I. Segall | 2757 |
| 534 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Keiichi Tateishi | 155 |
| 536 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | William Marshall | 1726 |
| 540 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Jonathan S. Lindsey | 671 |
| 544 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Johann-Peter Melder | 1489 |
| 546 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Gary L. Cantrell | 1574 |
| 548 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Gottfried Sedelmeier | 1351 |
| 549 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Frank Rosowski | 1348 |
| 552 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Robert M. Moriarty | 128 |
| 554 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Aniket Kale | 447 |
| 556 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Qing Yang | 605 |
| 558 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Robert Baumann | 442 |
| 560 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Eckhard Stroefer | 868 |
| 562 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Mark O. Scates | 883 |
| 564 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Johann-Peter Melder | 846 |
| 568 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Victor J. Johnston | 1493 |
| 570 | Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series | Hsueh Sung Tung | 410 |
| 585 | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds | Deng-Yang Jan | 1924 |
| 588 | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment | Stephen J. Agace | 292 |
| 600 | Surgery | Lowell L. Wood, Jr. | 22857 |
| 601 | Surgery: kinesitherapy | Peter G. Barthe | 1753 |
| 602 | Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage | Arni Thor Ingimundarson | 1400 |
| 604 | Surgery | Lowell L. Wood, Jr. | 14511 |
| 606 | Surgery | Lutz Biedermann | 17570 |
| 607 | Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application | Imad Libbus | 6457 |
| 623 | Prosthesis (i.e., artificial body members), parts thereof, or aids and accessories therefor | Jan Weber | 8806 |
| 700 | Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications | Kyung Shik Roh | 10692 |
| 701 | Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location | Anthony H. Heap | 15714 |
| 702 | Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing | Lowell L. Wood, Jr. | 10990 |
| 703 | Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation | Jiun-Der Yu | 4555 |
| 704 | Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression | Yang-Won Jung | 6139 |
| 705 | Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination | Royce A. Levien | 24131 |
| 706 | Data processing: artificial intelligence | Lowell L. Wood, Jr. | 3743 |
| 707 | Data processing: database and file management or data structures | Richard D. Dettinger | 9429 |
| 708 | Electrical computers: arithmetic processing and calculating | Eric M. Schwarz | 1290 |
| 709 | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring | Jeyhan Karaoguz | 24389 |
| 710 | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output | John R. Flanagan | 5658 |
| 711 | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory | Yoshiaki Eguchi | 11512 |
| 712 | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing architectures and instruction processing (e.g., processors) | G. Glenn Henry | 2919 |
| 713 | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support | Wael William Diab | 11889 |
| 714 | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery | Lee D. Whetsel | 9658 |
| 715 | Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing | Sanjiv Sirpal | 16221 |
| 716 | Data processing: design and analysis of circuit or semiconductor mask | Viresh Paruthi | 1788 |
| 717 | Data processing: software development, installation, and management | Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer | 6078 |
| 718 | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control | Royce A. Levien | 4350 |
| 719 | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) | International Business Machines Corporation | 2036 |
| 720 | Dynamic optical information storage or retrieval | Jen-Chen Wu | 797 |
| 725 | Interactive video distribution systems | Michael D. Ellis | 7583 |
| 726 | Information security | Clarence T. Tegreene | 11267 |
| 800 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes | William H. Eby | 6569 |
| 850 | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., scanning probe microscopy [spm] | Roger Proksch | 340 |
| 903 | Hybrid electric vehicles (hevs) | Joseph Akwo Tabe | 1 |
| PLT | Plants | Monica Maria Adelheid Sanders | 159 |
