Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Glenview, IL ranks #607 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 208 patents from 101 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Glenview, IL include Wms Gaming, Steelseries Aps, Bally Gaming. That works out to 4.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 101 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joel R. Jaffe Wms Gaming 17
2 Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister Steelseries Aps 12
3 Richard B. Robbins Bally Gaming 9
#4 William C. Cesaroni Dart Industries 7
#5 Michael Gurin Unknown 6
#5 Stuart Mintz Medline Industries, Lp 6
#7 Ronald A. Masters Stepan 5
#7 Andrew Frolov Robert Bosch Gmbh 5
#9 Vladimir Smelyansky Xcast Labs 4
#9 Eung Yub Cha Nuwave 4
#9 Gary F. Smith GE 4
#12 Earl O. Bergersen Ortho-Tain 3
#12 John Q. Chen Uop 3
#12 Kenneth S. Chua Medline Industries, Lp 3
#12 Gregory J. Foster Medline Industries, Lp 3
#12 Jun Tan Nokia Technologies Oy 3
#12 Charles C. Cherry Textura 3
#12 Boris Y. Tsirline Zih 3
#12 Brian Young Lee Brunswick 3
#20 Cliff Holmes Baxter Healthcare Sa 2
#20 Bary Lyn Zeller Kraft Foods Holdings 2
#20 Michelle Renee Duncan Ekr Therapeutics 2
#20 David Y. Badawi Sight Sciences 2
#20 Berwin Banares Illinois Tool Works 2
#20 Anish R. Kadakia Biomedical Enterprises 2
#20 Taiwon Choi Fellowes 2
#20 Bill Valentine Illinois Tool Works 2
#20 Jay J. Williams Symbol Technologies 2
#20 Nathan Johnson Illinois Tool Works 2
#20 John DeCosmo Ulta-Lit Tree 2
#20 Anthony Kehoe Illinois Tool Works 2
#20 Chris Ellec Illinois Tool Works 2
#20 John Lull Celerity 2
#20 Brian H. Silver Medela Holding Ag 2
#20 Paul Andrew Bauerschmidt Chicago Mercantile Exchange 2
#20 Ruben D Castano Motorola Mobility 2
#20 Zara Osman Uop 2
#20 Martin Drees Polytec Gmbh 2
#20 Peter H. Brown Chromocell 2
#20 Joseph M. Koenig, Jr. 2
#20 William A. Herring Illinois Tool Works 2
#20 Omar K. Farha Northwestern University 2
#43 Amit Khatri Abb Vie 1
#43 William Shuff Zih 1
#43 Ekaterina Pestova Abbott 1
#43 Leo Klinstein Dukane Ias 1
#43 Brian M. Parisi Illinois Tool Works 1
#43 Yifang Chu BOE 1
#43 Wai N. Chin Surgimatix 1
#43 Marc Krebs Terex Cranes Germany Gmbh 1

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