Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Dunlap, IL ranks #852 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 150 patents from 85 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Dunlap, IL include Caterpillar, Oak Leaf Outdoors, Endotronix. That works out to 93.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 85 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mo Wei Caterpillar 11
1 Mihai Mircea Balan Caterpillar 11
3 Kenneth L. Stratton Caterpillar 8
#4 Hoisan Kim Caterpillar 5
#5 Yanchai Zhang Caterpillar 4
#5 Steven C. Budde Caterpillar 4
#7 David A. Pierpont Caterpillar 3
#7 Kyong Shik Choi Caterpillar 3
#7 Andrew Whitten Caterpillar 3
#7 Benoit Abello Caterpillar 3
#7 Roger L. Recker Caterpillar 3
#12 Carl H. Rempert Caterpillar 2
#12 Daniel J. Sordelet Caterpillar 2
#12 Jared S. Schlipf Oak Leaf Outdoors 2
#12 Thomas Marshall Congdon Caterpillar 2
#12 Alexander C. Crosman, III Caterpillar 2
#12 Daniel K. Dunn Caterpillar 2
#12 Edwin H. Langewisch Caterpillar 2
#12 Bharat K. Meduru Caterpillar 2
#12 Balamurugan Sundaram Endotronix 2
#12 Jesse Gerdes Caterpillar 2
#12 Jackson Wai Caterpillar 2
#12 Baojun Si Caterpillar 2
#12 Dianqi Fang Caterpillar 2
#12 Jeffrey A. Brush Caterpillar 2
#12 Roger Dwight Watkins Endotronix 2
#12 William J. Tate Caterpillar 2
#12 Pradeep Chapagain Caterpillar 2
#12 Jeffrey Edward Jensen Caterpillar 2
#30 Iulian G. Ghiorghias Caterpillar 1
#30 Balasubramanyam Appalla Caterpillar 1
#30 Yongliang Zhu Caterpillar 1
#30 Charlie Kim Caterpillar 1
#30 Wellington Y. Kwok Delphi Technologies 1
#30 Siva Naga Prasad Nalam Satyavara Caterpillar 1
#30 Justin Philip Pahl Caterpillar 1
#30 David C. Orr Caterpillar 1
#30 Peitong Jin Caterpillar 1
#30 Timothy J. Styfhoorn Caterpillar 1
#30 Magomed Gabibulayev Caterpillar 1
#30 Luis Alonso Lugo Aviles Caterpillar 1
#30 Jinhui Sun Caterpillar 1
#30 William L. Easley Caterpillar 1
#30 Vasanthakumar Ganesan Caterpillar 1
#30 Karthikeyan C. Venkatasubramaniam Caterpillar 1
#30 Florin Smeu Caterpillar 1
#30 Andreia Balan Caterpillar 1
#30 George Gassman Wahl Clipper 1
#30 Purvarag S. Shah Caterpillar 1
#30 George B. Kokos Caterpillar 1

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