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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ames, IA ranks #616 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 216 patents from 135 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ames, IA include Monsanto Technology, BOE, Syngenta Participations Ag. That works out to 3.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 135 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jennifer R. Hicks Monsanto Technology 8
1 Michael B. Roof BOE 8
3 Keith Bilyeu Syngenta Participations Ag 6
#4 Iver E. Anderson Iowa State University 5
#4 Eric Martin Vaughn BOE 5
#6 Baozhen Chen Analog Devices 4
#6 Matthew J. Darr John Deere 4
#8 Dianna M. Murphy JORDAN BOE 3
#8 Norman Cloud Kemin Industries 3
#8 Thomas P. Jury Monsanto Technology 3
#8 Vaithilingam Sekar Dow Agrosciences 3
#8 Bruce Held Stine Biotechnology 3
#8 Steve Nissen Metabolic Technologies 3
#8 Robert McNaull Iowa State University 3
#8 Maohong Fan University Of Wyoming 3
#8 Joseph Gilbert VICTORIA BOE 3
#8 Yasufumi Yamamoto Canon 3
#8 Sanjeev Kumar Newlink Genetics 3
#19 Jared L. Anderson The University Of Toledo 2
#19 Michael Dennis Zenner Iowa State University 2
#19 Winston Joseph Chappell Workiva 2
#19 Costas M. Soukoulis Iowa State University 2
#19 John C. McKew Pfizer 2
#19 Jason Chen Iowa State University 2
#19 Scott David Hammer 2
#19 Joshua R. Bertram Rockwell Collins 2
#19 Robert L. Terpstra Iowa State University 2
#19 Igor Ivan Slowing Iowa State University 2
#19 Sam Eathington Monsanto Technology 2
#19 James C. Register, III Pioneer (Corteva) 2
#19 Grant T. MacDonald Cnh Industrial America 2
#19 Robert C. Brown Iowa State University 2
#19 Thomas Koschny Iowa State University 2
#19 Callie Ann VISEK BOE 2
#19 Daniel Linton Schaeffler 2
#19 Jerry L. Hall 2
#19 Thomas D. McGee Osteoceramics 2
#19 Arun V. Iyer BOE 2
#19 Megan N. Schroder Monsanto Technology 2
#19 Ronald Christopher Williams Iowa State University 2
#19 Qi Chen E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 2
#19 Juergen A. Richt USDA 2
#19 Delbert Linn Harris Iowa State University 2
#19 William Calvin Woodruff Broadcom 2
#45 Aleksander Wysocki University Of Nebraska 1
#45 Allen D. Bierbaum Priority 5 Holdings 1
#45 Marek Pruski Iowa State University 1
#45 Evan Donald Balster 1
#45 Jonathan Claussen Iowa State University 1
#45 Jesse Creighton Doyle Fisher Controls International 1

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