Top Inventors in Springfield, IL — 2016

Springfield, IL ranks #2,016 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 60 patents from 40 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Springfield, IL include Monsanto Technology, Design Ideas, IBM. That works out to 0.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–40 of 40 inventors

Rank ↑	Inventor ↕	Primary Company ↕	Patents ↕
1	Dean Ulbrich	Monsanto Technology	5
2	Jeffrey Hall	Monsanto Technology	4
3	Christopher Hardy	Design Ideas	3
3	Terence P. Purcell	IBM	3
3	Rick A. Briggs	Whitewater West Industries	3
#6	Andrew C. Deen	—	2
#6	R. Neal Post	Design Ideas	2
#6	Mark W. Bandixen	Bunn-O-Matic	2
#6	Vaidya Balasubramanian Pillai	State Farm	2
#6	Donald E. Wiley	Bunn-O-Matic	2
#6	Suresh Radhakrishnan	Bunn-O-Matic	2
#6	John Wegner	Reynolds Consumer Products	2
#13	Michael Wallace Verhulst	Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University	1
#13	John Bodjack	Faro Technologies	1
#13	Ronald W. Steffen	Dickey-John	1
#13	Krishna Rocha-Singh	Cardiosonic	1
#13	Keith A. Kabrick	Caterpillar	1
#13	Bernard Boon Chye Lim	—	1
#13	John T. Knepler	Bunn-O-Matic	1
#13	Rick Holzmacher	Honeywell	1
#13	Dan S. Hansen	Bunn-O-Matic	1
#13	Eric Alan Samuelson	Eaton	1
#13	John J. Lord	Access Business Group International	1
#13	Rex Allen Rogers	Bunn-O-Matic	1
#13	Dennis Allen Hammons	University Of Central Florida	1
#13	Joseph H. Fleischli	—	1
#13	Jeffrey W. Kadyk	Bunn-O-Matic	1
#13	Steven H. Plume	Emerson Electric	1
#13	Debashree Mukherjea	The Board Of Trustees Of The Southern Illinois University	1
#13	Lee D. Welch	—	1
#13	Geza Kogler	Georgia Tech Research	1
#13	Al Cable	Honeywell	1
#13	Danny Martin Sartore	—	1
#13	Vikram Chaudhery	University Of Illinois	1
#13	Len Rybak	The Board Of Trustees Of The Southern Illinois University	1
#13	Robert Kobylarz	Bunn-O-Matic	1
#13	William E. Midden	Bunn-O-Matic	1
#13	Vickram Ramkumar	The Board Of Trustees Of The Southern Illinois University	1
#13	Charles H. Clark	Bunn-O-Matic	1
#13	Jason Ray Lieving	Bunn-O-Matic	1

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Springfield, IL 2016