Top Inventors in Chicago, IL — 2017

Chicago, IL ranks #35 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 2,846 patents from 1,478 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Chicago, IL include IBM, Cleversafe, Here Global B.V.. That works out to 1.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,478 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Wesley B. Leggette	IBM	39
2	Greg R. Dhuse	IBM	38
3	Ilya Volvovski	IBM	27
#4	S. Christopher Gladwin	Cleversafe	25
#5	Leon Stenneth	Here Global B.V.	24
#6	Antonio Belton	Water Pik	20
#7	Michael Honsing Lau	Abb Vie	15
#8	Andrew C. Guinn	Wms Gaming	13
#8	Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen	Google	13
#8	Alexander Shubs, Jr.	Electro-Motive Diesel	13
#11	Timothy C. Loose	Wms Gaming	12
#11	Jamie W. Vann	Bally Gaming	12
#11	Sean Corrigan	Warsaw Orthopedic	12
#11	Damon E. Gura	Wms Gaming	12
#15	James Fowe	Here Global B.V.	11
#15	Manish Motwani	IBM	11
#15	Nick Reasner	Prosports Technologies	11
#15	Robert Coon	Ignite Usa	11
#15	Jeremy M. Hornik	Wms Gaming	11
#15	Roger W. Ady	Google	11
#15	Tino Soelberg	Steelseries Aps	11
#22	Derek J. Leatzow	C.R. Bard	10
#22	Chris Murray	Bradley Fixtures	10
#22	Keith Grider	Illinois Tool Works	10
#22	Ravi Kuchibhotla	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	10
#22	Milorad Radenovic	Clear Lam Packaging	10
#27	Tong Wu	Shanghai Tianma Am-Oled Co.	9
#27	Katie Ozamiz	Berlin Packaging	9
#27	David W. Young	Hogan Lovells International Llp	9
#27	Scott James Thompson	Ford	9
#27	Monisha Ghosh	Interdigital Patent Holdings	9
#27	Akira Yamaguchi	Fujitsu Limited	9
#27	Aaron Brown	Stepan	9
#27	Nathan M. Connell	Google	9
#27	Daniel P. Louie	Wms Gaming	9
#27	Bart R. Cilfone	IBM	9
#27	John White	Illinois Tool Works	9
#27	Bryan Adrian Lauer	Gogo	9
#39	Sean S. Cordone	Isco International	8
#39	Gavril Giurgiu	Here Global B.V.	8
#39	Kevin L. Krysiak	Wilson Sporting Goods	8
#39	Robert A. West	Trading Technologies International	8
#39	Julia B. Burke	Whirlpool	8
#39	Valerie Snow	Honey-Can-Do International	8
#39	James D. Lynch	Here Global B.V.	8
#46	Anders Olof Rostlund	Gehl Foods	7
#46	Blake Konrardy	State Farm	7
#46	Margaret M. Andersen	Medline Industries, Lp	7
#46	Edward Geiselhart	—	7
#46	Michelle L. Wexler	The Underwares Group	7

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