Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gainesville, FL ranks #282 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 464 patents from 300 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gainesville, FL include Epizyme, University of Florida, Globalfoundries. That works out to 3.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 300 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gideon Shapiro Epizyme 13
2 Subrata Roy University of Florida 7
3 Sukwon Hong Globalfoundries 6
#4 Yanhua Deng L-3 Communications 5
#4 Wallace Gregory Sawyer University of Florida 5
#4 Thomas M. Vanasse Biomet Manufacturing 5
#7 Daniela Carmen Oniciu Cerenis Therapeutics Holding S.A. 4
#7 Soumyajit Mandal Schlumberger Technology 4
#7 Christine E. Schmidt University Of Texas System 4
#7 Philip G. Koehler University of Florida 4
#7 Mavis Agbandje-McKenna University of Florida 4
#7 Rahul Shrivastav University of Florida 4
#7 Chang-Yu Wu University of Florida 4
#7 Gary L. Simonds Mcp Ip 4
#7 Aritra Dasgupta IBM 4
#7 Scott E. Thompson Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited 4
#7 Roberto M. Pereira University of Florida 4
#18 Gary Dean Ragner Ragner Technology 3
#18 Garrett William Gleim Gleim Conferencing 3
#18 Richard T. Farley Nanoptics, Incorporated 3
#18 David P. Arnold University of Florida 3
#18 Svetlana V. Vasilyeva University of Florida 3
#18 Richard J. Melker University of Florida 3
#18 Glenn Zelniker Bongiovi Acoustic 3
#18 Alice E. Holmes University of Florida 3
#18 Kevin C. Carter Regeneration Technologies 3
#18 John E. Rogers The Boeing 3
#18 Youngwook Noh Nanoptics, Incorporated 3
#18 Dewayne Lee Thompson Daniel Defense 3
#18 Chin-Cheng Wang Assoma 3
#18 Arun Srivastava University of Florida 3
#18 Zunyi Yang 3
#18 William Toreki Quick-Med Technologies 3
#18 Jose C. Principe University of Florida 3
#18 William W. Gregory Smith & Nephew 3
#18 Grayson M. Clark Florida Foundation Seed Producers 3
#18 James K. Walker Nanoptics, Incorporated 3
#18 David G. Clark Florida Foundation Seed Producers 3
#39 Rajib Kumar Das University of Florida 2
#39 Mark Sheplak University of Florida 2
#39 Yoonhyuk Ro Futurewei Technologies 2
#39 Ernie Torres Clairson 2
#39 Adam S. Veige University of Florida 2
#39 Kannan Balasundaram Sinmat 2
#39 Sanford L. Boye University of Florida 2
#39 David A. Ostrov University of Florida 2
#39 Kim M. Van Vliet University of Florida 2
#39 Michael Meese Encell Technology 2
#39 George Vladimirovich Aslanidi University of Florida 2
#39 Peter S. McFetridge University of Florida 2

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