Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bloomington, IN ranks #418 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 312 patents from 172 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bloomington, IN include Cook Medical Technologies, US Air Force, Tivo. That works out to 3.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 172 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Blayne A. Roeder Cook Medical Technologies 19
2 Adam Duncan US Air Force 11
3 Darin Schaeffer Cook Medical Technologies 10
#4 Matthew Gadlage US Air Force 9
#4 Brian Beach Tivo 9
#6 Eric Scheid US Air Force 6
#7 Siddharth Vad Cook Medical Technologies 5
#7 Frank J. Fischer, Jr. Cook Medical Technologies 5
#7 Richard E. Wagner Corning Cable Systems 5
#10 Jeremiah J. Willcock Micron 4
#10 Ram H. Paul Cook Medical Technologies 4
#10 Robert M. Eells Cook Medical Technologies 4
#10 Elizabeth A. Theobald Cook Medical Technologies 4
#14 Phanindra V. Garimella Cummins 3
#14 Gary B. Shirley Cook Medical Technologies 3
#14 David A. Drewes, Jr. Cook Medical Technologies 3
#14 Thomas W. McGhie Cook Medical Technologies 3
#14 Sundeep Kankanala Becton, Dickinson And 3
#14 Tyler J. Bunch Cook Medical Technologies 3
#14 James P. Reilly Liberty Evans 3
#14 WenHong Neoh Cook Medical Technologies 3
#14 Matthew A. Laherty Cisco 3
#14 Brian L. Bates Cook Regentec 3
#14 Andrew Howard US Air Force 3
#14 Colleen Gemborys Cook Medical Technologies 3
#26 Jeffrey W. Zerfas Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#26 Pengyun Li Indiana University Research And Technology 2
#26 Cleon Stanley Cook Medical Technologies 2
#26 Therese J. O'Day Cook Medical Technologies 2
#26 Lindsay Koren Cook Medical Technologies 2
#26 James Stewart US Air Force 2
#26 Brad A. Ohlrich General Motors 2
#26 James R. Randolph Cook Medical Technologies 2
#26 Karthik Kappaganthu Cummins 2
#26 William R Stocke, Jr. US Air Force 2
#26 Jeff Maas US Air Force 2
#26 George Whitaker US Air Force 2
#26 Jeremy Schaeffer Cook Medical Technologies 2
#26 Andrew Lumsdaine Adobe 2
#26 Edwin E. Macatangay Cook Medical Technologies 2
#26 Kiron Mateti US Air Force 2
#26 David E. Clemmer Indiana University Research And Technology 2
#26 Arman H. Valaie Cook Medical Technologies 2
#26 Andrew W. Conder Cook Medical Technologies 2
#26 Jacqueline Farag Cook Medical Technologies 2
#26 Grant T. Hoffman Cook Medical Technologies 2
#26 Karol Lagodzki Cook Medical Technologies 2
#26 Kevin Hall Masonite International 2
#26 Michael A. Ewing Indiana University Research And Technology 2
#26 Michael W. Hardert Cook Medical Technologies 2

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