Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Tampa, FL ranks #209 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 569 patents from 351 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Tampa, FL include The Nielsen Company (Us), Sandisk Technologies, Ism Saddles. That works out to 1.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 351 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Arun Ramaswamy The Nielsen Company (Us) 18
2 Yao-Sheng Lee Sandisk Technologies 16
3 Steven G. Toll Ism Saddles 15
#4 Said M. Sebti University Of South Florida 13
#5 Jin Q. Cheng University Of South Florida 12
#6 Robert Bennett AT&T 10
#7 Jan Besehanic The Nielsen Company (Us) 8
#8 Roy W. Sanders Foot Innovations 7
#8 Aidas Nasevicius Yorktown Technologies 7
#10 Padmanabhan Soundararajan The Nielsen Company (Us) 6
#10 Daniel Nelson The Nielsen Company (Us) 6
#12 Nityanand Sharma Verizon 5
#12 Bhaskar R. Gudlavenkatasiva Verizon 5
#12 Stuart Richard Hart University Of South Florida 5
#12 Min Zhang Alliance For Sustainable Energy 5
#12 Don Busby Baxter International 5
#17 James A. Simmons Ranpak 4
#17 Yu Zhang IBM 4
#17 Steven J. Splaine The Nielsen Company (Us) 4
#17 Xiaomei Jiang University Of South Florida 4
#21 David L. Morse Corning Glass Works 3
#21 David Allen Smith Amazon 3
#21 Kyle B. Reed University Of South Florida 3
#21 Michael W. Fountain The Liposome Company 3
#21 Timothy Ganey Vivex Biologics Group 3
#21 Susana K. Lai-Yuen 3
#21 Garrett S. Waggoner Cirkul 3
#21 Erix Pizano Ceelox Patents 3
#21 Myung K. Kim University Of South Florida 3
#21 Andrew Gay Cirkul 3
#21 Ravi P. Bansal IBM 3
#21 Shekhar Bhansali University Of South Florida 3
#21 Sergio Gutierrez Foot Innovations 3
#21 Robert J. Gillies H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center And Research Institute 3
#21 Sutap Chatterjee Verizon 3
#36 Narasimha Reddy Goli The Nielsen Company (Us) 2
#36 Jing Wang Sun Yat-Sen University 2
#36 Stephan P. Athan University Of South Florida 2
#36 Youhong Niu University Of South Florida 2
#36 Jeremy Catrone 2
#36 Shweta Sinha Verizon 2
#36 Bruno M. L. Telles Vanguard Products Group 2
#36 Gokhan Mumcu University Of South Florida 2
#36 Kevin N. Sill Intezyne Technologies 2
#36 Miranda L. Cheney Thar Pharmaceuticals 2
#36 Ning Shan Thar Pharmaceuticals 2
#36 Jeff West Microsoft 2
#36 Dale W. Mayfield Masonite 2
#36 Thomas Ketterl University Of South Florida 2
#36 Jun Tan University Of South Florida 2

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