Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Kent, OH ranks #1,989 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 61 patents from 30 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Kent, OH include The Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Alphamicron Incorporated, Kent Displays. That works out to 2.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–30 of 30 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Max Harold Dixon The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 16
2 Aaron Scott Puhala The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 5
3 Ludmila Sukhomlinova Alphamicron Incorporated 3
3 Erica Montbach Kent Displays 3
#5 Asad A. Khan Kent Displays 2
#5 Kirk C. Palmerton Lifeline Scientific 2
#5 Bentley Wall Kent State University 2
#5 Oleg D. Lavrentovich Kent State University 2
#5 Robert Allen Losey The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 2
#5 Michael J. Goncy ExxonMobil 2
#5 Dale R. Adams Silicon Image 2
#5 Michael Eric Liedtke Fasteners For Retail 2
#13 Cuiyu Zhang Kent State University 1
#13 David E. Thomas Chrysler Group 1
#13 Paul Bryan Maxwell The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 1
#13 Kirk Palmerton Graco Children'S Products 1
#13 J. William Doane Kent Displays 1
#13 Paul Luchette Alphamicron Incorporated 1
#13 Brian M. Ensinger Applied Vision 1
#13 Fletcher Liverance HP 1
#13 Volodymyr Bodnar Alphamicron Incorporated 1
#13 Fletcher Livarance HP 1
#13 Pedro Coutino Soto Alphamicron Incorporated 1
#13 William R. Gibson Lisco 1
#13 Antal Jakli Kent State University 1
#13 Hsienhui Cheng Zspace 1
#13 Michael Starkey H & M Innovations 1
#13 Tracy Richey Oakwood Laboratories 1
#13 Da-Wei Lee ITRI 1
#13 Clinton Braganza Kent Displays 1

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