Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Solon, OH ranks #533 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 232 patents from 79 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Solon, OH include Spectrum Diversified Designs, Boston Scientific, Cardioinsight Technologies. That works out to 9.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 79 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Sheldon H. Goodman Spectrum Diversified Designs 68
2 Michael A. Moffitt Boston Scientific 27
3 Charulatha Ramanathan Cardioinsight Technologies 7
3 Gregory M. Bird Fasteners For Retail 7
#5 William Erwin Cohen GE 6
#6 Ping Jia Cardioinsight Technologies 5
#7 Roger W. Avakian GE 4
#7 Qingguo Zeng Cardioinsight Technologies 4
#7 Michael Rabinovich Baker Hughes Holdings 4
#7 Kan Yang Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics 4
#7 Carl Peters Lincoln Global 4
#12 Subbian Govindaraj Rockwell Automation 3
#12 Jonathan M. Katz Pressco Ip 3
#12 Jeffrey D. Smith Providence Medical Technology 3
#12 Terry Mazanec Velocys 3
#12 Utkarsh Sharma Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag 3
#12 Sivaram Balasubramanian Rockwell Automation 3
#12 Cathy Li Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. 3
#19 Mark E. Olszewski Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 2
#19 John J. Maloney Ferro 2
#19 Sergey V. Makarov Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited 2
#19 Chris T. Vild Metaullics Systems Co. 2
#19 Richard S. Henderson Pyrotek 2
#19 Thomas DePietro Cequent Consumer Products 2
#19 Deepak S. Thakur Basf Se 2
#19 Jorge A. Morando Alphatech Co. 2
#19 Alex Greenspan Mechoshade Systems 2
#19 Andrew Leonard Qiagen Gaithersburg 2
#29 Eric J. Wilson Erico International 1
#29 Amir Mahmoudkhani Kemira Oyj 1
#29 Jason Holstein Pyrotek 1
#29 Dale M. Wollschleger 1
#29 Larry N. Mueller Arconic 1
#29 Efim Ya Lyublinski Northern Technologies International 1
#29 Faming Li Xerox 1
#29 Keith E. Brown Kinetico Incorporated 1
#29 Grigory Adamovsky NASA 1
#29 Wei Xin Case Western Reserve University 1
#29 Naser Pourahmady Lubrizol Advanced Materials 1
#29 Lu Qian Cisco 1
#29 Todd E. Kooken Lincoln Global 1
#29 Bruce J. Chantry Lincoln Global 1
#29 Jinling Liu Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 1
#29 Jeffrey H. Yanof Picker International 1
#29 Alexander Roytman Northern Technologies International 1
#29 Alexander S. Margolin Bionx Medical Technologies 1
#29 David C. Arters The Lubrizol 1
#29 Xuliang Dai Ndsu Research Foundation 1
#29 David Soble 1
#29 Qing Ge Tyrx 1

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