Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

South Burlington, VT ranks #376 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 343 patents from 143 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in South Burlington, VT include IBM, Beta Air, Abbott. That works out to 16.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 143 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Baozhen Li IBM 16
2 Jeanne P. Bickford IBM 15
3 Charles A. Kilmer IBM 10
#4 Randy L. Wolf IBM 9
#5 Renata Camillo-Castillo IBM 8
#6 Robert J. Gauthier, Jr. IBM 7
#7 Nanju Na IBM 6
#7 Nazmul Habib IBM 6
#7 Edward W. Kiewra IBM 6
#7 David L. Harame IBM 6
#7 Lamiaa Msalka IBM 6
#7 Steven K. Schmidt IBM 6
#7 Herman Wiegman Beta Air 6
#14 Tom C. Lee IBM 5
#14 Stuart Denson Schreiber Beta Air 5
#14 Max G. Levy IBM 5
#17 Ronald D. Rose IBM 4
#17 John S. Bialas, Jr. IBM 4
#17 Alan B. Botula IBM 4
#17 Mark C. Johnson Abbott 4
#17 Susan K. Lichtensteiger IBM 4
#17 Sebastian T. Ventrone IBM 4
#17 Shawn A. Adderly IBM 4
#17 Derrick Paul Lawrence Seventh Generation Ventures 4
#17 George M. Braceras IBM 4
#17 Timothy M. Sullivan IBM 4
#17 David C. Thomas IBM 4
#17 David J. West IBM 4
#17 Mark C. H. Lamorey IBM 4
#17 David V. Horak Globalfoundries 4
#17 Richard Q. Williams IBM 4
#32 James Creath Frazier Shock Doctor 3
#32 Janak G. Patel IBM 3
#32 James P. Di Sarro IBM 3
#32 Josef S. Watts IBM 3
#32 Mayank Shrivastava Infineon Technologies Ag 3
#32 Randall Whitcomb Huber+Suhner Ag 3
#32 Edward J. Nowak 3
#32 Jeffrey G. Hemmett IBM 3
#32 Joseph K. V. Comeau IBM 3
#32 Michael T. Fragano IBM 3
#42 Oleg Zimenkov Bti 2
#42 Blaine J. Gross Globalfoundries 2
#42 Zhenrong Jin IBM 2
#42 Jed H. Rankin IBM 2
#42 Russell T. Herrin IBM 2
#42 Brett T. Cucci Globalfoundries U.S. 2
#42 Scott C. Lewis IBM 2
#42 Chad Yonkman Madgrip Holdings 2
#42 Mark W. Kuemerle IBM 2

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