Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ocala, FL ranks #1,821 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 72 patents from 37 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ocala, FL include U.S. Nutraceuticals, Qualcomm, Firestone Industrial Products Company. That works out to 1.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–37 of 37 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 W. Stephen Hill U.S. Nutraceuticals 10
2 Lawrence W. Yonge, III Qualcomm 8
2 Hassan Kaywan Afkhami Qualcomm 8
#4 Scott A. Smith Firestone Industrial Products Company 4
#4 Joseph K. Ellis Product Design Innovations 4
#6 Rouhana Rouhana Qualcomm 3
#7 Sidney B. Schrum, Jr. Qualcomm 2
#7 Gregory Allen Magin Qualcomm 2
#7 Arthur Parkhurst Tidi Securement Products 2
#7 Dale K. Davis Jones IBM 2
#11 James Caico 1
#11 Emily C. Burgoyne Clairson 1
#11 Michael Louis Mastic 1
#11 Bradley Busch Akron Brass 1
#11 Thomas Jones Clairson 1
#11 Robert C. Stentiford, Sr. 1
#11 Michael Curry 1
#11 Bryan K. Myers 1
#11 L. Dean Parks Galderma Holding Sa 1
#11 Richard Williamson Pacesetter 1
#11 Jon Frederick Roever Med-Genesis 1
#11 Ronald L. Ewers Class 1 1
#11 Edward S. Espinosa Espinosa Clairson 1
#11 Branden Sharbono 1
#11 Adam Joseph Suydam RTX (Raytheon) 1
#11 Martin Cole 1
#11 Faisal Mahmood Shad Qualcomm 1
#11 CRISTOBAL CASTRO 1
#11 Bradley Alan Ewers Class 1 1
#11 Jessica Engle U.S. Nutraceuticals 1
#11 Gwendolyn Gadsden 1
#11 Rolando Armas Mueller International 1
#11 Sedeek Rahman 1
#11 William A. Trice 1
#11 Ryan Clifton Gandy 1
#11 Daniel Wayne Brinton, Jr. Clairson 1
#11 Daniel W. Plawecki 1

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