Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Oswego, IL ranks #2,910 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 41 patents from 29 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Oswego, IL include Mueller International, Caterpillar, Standard Car Truck. That works out to 1.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–29 of 29 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Nicholaus J. Peyton Mueller International 3
1 Eric W. Cler Caterpillar 3
1 John D. Anderson Standard Car Truck 3
#4 Brandon Davis Aries Clean Technologies 2
#4 Stephen J. Smick Mueller International 2
#4 Timothy Gibbs Sidles Caterpillar 2
#4 Paul J. Zinn Ecolab Usa 2
#4 Wayne R. Wilcox 2
#4 Robert Joseph McGreevy Rockwell Automation 2
#10 Daniel Mateja Cabot Microelectronics 1
#10 Eric C. Bachman 1
#10 Jeffrey Chiu Wilton Industries 1
#10 John D. Anderson GE 1
#10 Jonathan Gregersen Illinois Tool Works 1
#10 Brian Ruiz 1
#10 Steven Gutkowski Masonite 1
#10 Randal S. Aspen A. Y. Mcdonald Mfg. 1
#10 Steve Nielsen Comscore 1
#10 Robert W. Lucenta Clover Technologies Group 1
#10 Ashraf Abouelleil Mueller International 1
#10 John C. McMillion Auto Meter Products 1
#10 Thomas Michael Sargeant Generation Brands 1
#10 Arden A. Warner Fermi Research Alliance 1
#10 John Dewey Gates Caterpillar 1
#10 Ryan Robert Stoffel Caterpillar 1
#10 Dwain E. Frieh Arris Enterprises 1
#10 Aron Varhegyi Caterpillar 1
#10 Mike Wolf Mike'S Train House 1
#10 Tenkasi V. Ramabadran Google 1

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