Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Evanston, IL ranks #382 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 319 patents from 177 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Evanston, IL include Northwestern University, Uop, Abb Vie. That works out to 4.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 177 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Tobin J. Marks Northwestern University 10
1 Christopher P. Nicholas Uop 10
3 Andrew J. Souers Abb Vie 9
3 Jason Green Nucurrent 9
3 Kimon Papakos Tellabs Operations 9
#6 John A. Nix Network-1 Technologies 7
#7 Vincent S. Chan Abb Vie 6
#7 Lawrence A. Birnbaum Narrative Science 6
#7 Shu Kuen Chang 3Com 6
#7 Hao Zhang Northwestern University 6
#11 Michael B. Grimm Asyst Technologies L.L.C. 5
#11 Karl A. Scheidt Northwestern University 5
#13 Roger P. Goldberg Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#13 M. Amin Khan Aptinyx 4
#13 Michael J. Ahrens Ohmx 4
#13 J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University 4
#17 Zhichang Liu Northwestern University 3
#17 Geoffry A. Westphal W.W. Grainger 3
#17 Christopher W. Chudek Wms Gaming 3
#17 Joseph Moskal Northwestern University 3
#17 Danijel Stankovic Bally Gaming 3
#17 Seble H. Wagaw Abb Vie 3
#17 Mark Greenwood Youcopia Products 3
#17 Sean Dennis Simpson Lanzatech New Zealand Limited 3
#25 Zhuang Rui Tan Synventive Molding Solutions 2
#25 Zoi S. Metaxa Northwestern University 2
#25 Aleksandar Kuzmanovic Northwestern University 2
#25 Iulius Lucaci Motorola 2
#25 Andrew Panahon Loop Bv 2
#25 Christopher Check Inventure Renewables 2
#25 Young Min Bae Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute 2
#25 Vishaal B. Verma Unknown 2
#25 William C. Kastilahn Shoppertrak Rct 2
#25 Peter J. Silverman Intel 2
#25 Alexander Hans Vija Siemens Medical Solutions Usa 2
#25 Keith Alsberg Steris 2
#25 Michael Geier Stryde Technologies 2
#25 Vinod K. Sangwan Northwestern University 2
#25 Amber M. Pierce Google 2
#25 Kyoo-Chul Park Northwestern University 2
#25 Jeffrey J. Rohde Abbott 2
#25 Benjamin L. Tiemens Uop 2
#25 Andrew Eloff Igt 2
#25 Thomas O. Zurfluh Federal-Mogul Worldwide 2
#25 Andrew Bogdan AbbVie 2
#25 Karla M. Fogel Covenant Ministries Of Benevolence 2
#25 Kornel Ehmann Northwestern University 2
#25 William A. Carroll Abbott 2
#25 Travis J. Weber Loop Bv 2
#25 Justin R. Derbas Nanocytomics 2

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