Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Naperville, IL ranks #180 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 639 patents from 333 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Naperville, IL include Alcatel Lucent, The Glad Products, Futurewei Technologies. That works out to 4.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 333 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yigang Cai Alcatel Lucent 16
1 Michael G. Borchardt The Glad Products 16
3 Anthony R. Metke 10
3 Philippe Sartori Futurewei Technologies 10
3 Shigeng Li Xerox 10
#6 Zhengcheng Zhang Uchicago Argonne 8
#6 Jon R. Jeambey Nevis Industries 8
#6 Jeffrey L. Allen Bally Gaming 8
#6 Pengfei Ma Caterpillar 8
#10 Shahzada Rasool Sprint Spectrum 7
#10 Jing-Yun Shyr IBM 7
#10 Yuexing Zhang Toshiba Medical Systems 7
#10 Shridhar P. Joshi Wms Gaming 7
#10 John R. Wilson Sloan Valve 7
#15 Ronald A. Nordin Panduit 6
#15 Yugang Sun University Of Illinois 6
#15 Bei-Hong Liang Masonite 6
#18 Thomas Z. Fu Lbp Manufacturing 5
#18 Lee M. Chow AT&T 5
#18 James P. Ashley Motorola 5
#18 Thomas M. Bartos Bp Corporation North America 5
#18 Pat Walsh Gogo 5
#18 Eric Chan Adobe 5
#18 Peter Kokayeff Uop 5
#18 Nikolay Popov Cornelius 5
#18 Nicholas S. Ergang Ecolab Usa 5
#18 Shreecharan Kanchanavally Whirlpool 5
#28 Thomas Tuttle Cnh Industrial Canada 4
#28 Jianxin Du Synata Bio 4
#28 Beihai Ma Uchicago Argonne 4
#28 Michael P. Bloink Hendrickson Usa, L.L.C. 4
#28 Asimuddin Kazi IBM 4
#28 Chi T. Tran 4
#28 John Raymond Werneke Live Nation Entertainment 4
#28 Renhe Jia Cabot Microelectronics 4
#28 Paresh Kanabar Gogo 4
#28 Deep Bandyopadhyay Electro-Motive Diesel 4
#28 Thomas J. Preston Texas Instruments 4
#28 Sandor Nagy Equistar Chemicals, Lp 4
#28 Weiguo Cheng Ecolab Usa 4
#28 Frank A. Harwath Molex 4
#42 Vojislav Stamenkovic Uchicago Argonne 3
#42 Tony Dipaolo Rtc Industries 3
#42 Balaji Kandasamy Freudenberg Household Products Lp 3
#42 Mohammad-Reza Mostofi-Ashtiani Uop 3
#42 Jung-Woo Seo Samsung 3
#42 Rajat Kapoor Suncoke Technology And Development 3
#42 Russell T. Fling Rca 3
#42 Ernest Shen Cabot Microelectronics 3
#42 Bruce A. Keiser Nalco Company 3

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