Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Middleton, WI ranks #1,048 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 121 patents from 70 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Middleton, WI include Dexcom, Virent, WARF. That works out to 5.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 70 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Randall Scott Koplin Dexcom 6
1 Elizabeth Woods Virent 6
3 Michael Scott Arnold WARF 5
#4 Xudong Wang WARF 4
#4 Nicholas Abbott WARF 4
#6 Michael J. Domanico Exact Sciences 3
#6 Scott B. Reeder WARF 3
#6 Thad G. Walker 3
#6 Joshua J. Coon WARF 3
#6 Hatim Allawi Exact Sciences 3
#6 David Lynn WARF 3
#6 Zhenqiang Ma WARF 3
#6 Thomas Nikita Krupenkin Alcatel Lucent 3
#6 Andrew P. Block Fiskars Brands 3
#15 Jon S. Thorson WARF 2
#15 Kevin Christopher Possell Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#15 Alex Scott Walters Huf Huelsbeck & Fuerst GmbH & Co. KG 2
#15 Dane Morgan Pellion Technologies 2
#15 Daniel Colin Ludois WARF 2
#15 Yoshihiro Kawaoka WARF 2
#15 Shaoyong Nie Nektar Therapeutics 2
#15 George W. Huber WARF 2
#15 Anand Raghavan Skyworks Solutions 2
#15 Kevin Colwell Ultratec 2
#15 Halcyon G. Skinner Wake Forest University Health Sciences 2
#15 Robert Q. Tham Ohmeda 2
#15 Chris N. Stoll Freeescale Semiconductor 2
#28 Mariana Pehar CNRS 1
#28 Srinivasa Aditya Akella WARF 1
#28 David Mott King Abdulaziz University 1
#28 Frank R. Korosec WARF 1
#28 Richard A. Anderson WARF 1
#28 Steve Fiene Cellular Dynamics International 1
#28 Mingming Geng Powergenix Systems 1
#28 Carl Gottfried Kammer Spectrum Brands 1
#28 Aaron J. Faessler Mcfarlane Manufacturing 1
#28 Jeremy Heil Applied Biosystems 1
#28 Andrew Everett Phelps Google 1
#28 Peiman Hematti WARF 1
#28 Gary Bewick Electronic Theatre Controls 1
#28 Gregory T. Bleck Catalent Pharma Solutions 1
#28 David Anstrom WARF 1
#28 Helen E. Blackwell WARF 1
#28 William A. Bayer Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments 1
#28 Ben Rodgers Electronic Theatre Controls 1
#28 Brett Mueller Mueller Sports Medicine 1
#28 Mark D. Markel WARF 1
#28 Matt Riley Cellular Dynamics International 1
#28 Ryland B. Edwards, III Smith & Nephew 1
#28 Peter Michael Klausler Google 1

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