Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Champaign, IL ranks #519 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 235 patents from 139 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Champaign, IL include Pioneer (Corteva), University Of Illinois, IBM. That works out to 2.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 139 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jennifer Ann Tarter Pioneer (Corteva) 10
2 Paul J. Hergenrother University Of Illinois 8
3 Can Bayram IBM 6
#4 Jian Tian Cts 5
#4 Martin D. Burke University Of Illinois 5
#6 Brian T. Cunningham Sru Biosystems 4
#6 Gang Wen Caterpillar 4
#6 Jianjun Cheng University Of Illinois 4
#6 Gabriel Popescu University Of Illinois 4
#6 Eric Williams C.H.&I. Technologies 4
#6 Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Alpha 4
#6 Charles Abbas Archer-Daniels-Midland 4
#13 Po-Sen Huang Chiun Mai Communication Systems 3
#13 Philip T. Krein University Of Illinois 3
#13 Miguel Melnyk Citrix Systems 3
#13 Lynford Goddard University Of Illinois 3
#13 Ralph G. Nuzzo University Of Illinois 3
#13 Aaron Libman The Libman 3
#13 J. Gary Eden University Of Illinois 3
#13 Robert Lee Segebart Pioneer (Corteva) 3
#13 Rashid Bashir National Semiconductor 3
#13 Andrew D. Libman The Libman 3
#23 Dennis Coleman Weatherford Switzerland Trading And Development Gmbh 2
#23 Eric Salm University Of Illinois 2
#23 Jay Kesan Motedata 2
#23 Abhishek Harish State Farm 2
#23 Milton Feng University Of Illinois 2
#23 Richard Dean Davis Maxim Integrated Products 2
#23 Stephen A. Boppart University Of Illinois 2
#23 William R. Magro Intel 2
#23 Thomas J. Houlahan University Of Illinois 2
#23 Hyunji Lim State Farm 2
#23 Rachel C. Botham University Of Illinois 2
#23 Noah Durham Envirox, L.L.C. 2
#23 Eric Pop University Of Illinois 2
#23 Arch D. Robison Intel 2
#23 John Rochon Bytemobile 2
#23 Kuang-Chien Hsieh National Tsing Hua University 2
#23 Placid M. Ferreira University Of Illinois 2
#23 Sanjay Patel Personify 2
#23 Steven C. Zimmerman University Of Illinois 2
#23 Robert Kutz Dioxide Materials 2
#23 Howard S. Roth Chemocentryx 2
#23 Gerald O. Wilson Autonomic Materials 2
#23 Christopher E. Bray Litania Sports Group 2
#23 Robert J. Libman The Libman 2
#23 Stephen John Briggs Gibbs Technologies Limited 2
#23 William P. King University Of Illinois 2
#49 Christopher John Davis Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 1
#49 Trong-Tin Nguyen Orthosoft 1

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