Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Northbrook, IL ranks #870 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 147 patents from 81 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Northbrook, IL include Isco International, Blackberry Limited, Abb Vie. That works out to 4.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 81 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Amr Abdelmonem Isco International 8
2 Arnold Sheynman Blackberry Limited 7
3 Steven W. Elmore Abb Vie 6
3 Alberto R. Cavallaro Motorola Mobility 6
#5 Hyejung Jung Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 5
#5 Lev Davydov Uop 5
#7 Yu Xia Polytec Gmbh 4
#8 Mei Lin Republic Tobacco 3
#8 Hui Dai Google 3
#8 Valentin Oprescu-Surcobe Motorola 3
#8 Andrea G. Bozzano Uop 3
#8 Gang Duan Danisco Us 3
#8 Hanxin Zhao Illinois Tool Works 3
#8 Wayne H. Rothschild Wms Gaming 3
#15 Paola Appendini The Quaker Oats 2
#15 Mark Spencer G. Chua Medline Industries, Lp 2
#15 Vladimir Boroditsky Here Global B.V. 2
#15 Douglas J. Williams Jx Crystals 2
#15 Shengwen Yuan Uchicago Argonne 2
#15 Manuela Serban Uop 2
#15 Charles Nebolsky Accenture Global Services Limited 2
#15 Salim Mujais Baxter International 2
#15 Michael J. Osborn AMD 2
#15 Kimberly L. Moyal 2
#15 Christopher A. Gariepy Stepan 2
#15 Ronald Lachman Kinetech 2
#15 Warrick Bell Jab Distributors 2
#15 Martin H. Singer Pctel 2
#15 Peter Domeny Power Tool Institute 2
#15 Jonathan Alan Handler Baxter International 2
#15 Jared Bell Jab Distributors 2
#15 Jason R. Nasiatka Signode Industrial Group 2
#33 Cheri E. Klein Abb Vie 1
#33 Tadas S. Sileika Northwestern University 1
#33 Mitchell Liss Edsal Manufacturing Company 1
#33 Ji Young Roe IBM 1
#33 Michael D. Silver Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 1
#33 Richard I. Brown Baxter International 1
#33 John D. Veleris Delphian Systems 1
#33 Alan Elsmo 1
#33 Jonathan Lasch 1
#33 Kara Lineal Digital Innovations 1
#33 Duan Gang Valspar Sourcing 1
#33 Yanling Kang 1
#33 Bruce Raming Premier Print & Services Group 1
#33 Rodney L. Burton Cu Aerospace 1
#33 Benjamin Matthew Fong Medline Industries, Lp 1
#33 Richard L. Schempp Cnh Industrial America 1
#33 Yury Zelechonok Sielc Technologies 1
#33 Tomasz Slawinski Hydraforce 1

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