Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Tucson, AZ ranks #59 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 1,630 patents from 716 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Tucson, AZ include IBM, Cnh Industrial America, Sion Power. That works out to 3.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 716 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Dylan J. Boday IBM 51
2 David C. Reed IBM 43
3 Lokesh M. Gupta IBM 36
#4 Max D. Smith IBM 32
#5 Matthew J. Kalos IBM 20
#6 Michael T. Benhase IBM 19
#7 Kevin J. Ash IBM 18
#8 Daniel J. Winarski IBM 17
#8 Dean A. Knobloch Cnh Industrial America 17
#8 Robert A. Hutchins IBM 17
#11 Aaron R. Cox IBM 12
#12 Yuriy V. Mikhaylik Sion Power 11
#12 Trung N. Nguyen IBM 11
#14 Carl E. Jones IBM 10
#14 Paul A. Jennas, II IBM 10
#14 Hui Du E Ink California 10
#17 Theresa M. Brown IBM 9
#17 Larry Juarez IBM 9
#17 Beth A. Peterson IBM 9
#17 Juan A. Coronado IBM 9
#17 Richard A. Welp IBM 9
#17 Nhan X. Bui IBM 9
#17 Timothy C. Mauldin IBM 9
#17 Roger G. Hathorn IBM 9
#25 Qing Wang Advalue Photonics 8
#25 Hong Hua University Of Arizona 8
#25 Lisa J. Gundy IBM 8
#25 Pamela R. Nylander-Hill IBM 8
#25 Steven R. Bentley IBM 8
#25 Shibin Jiang Advalue Photonics 8
#25 Nikhil Khandelwal IBM 8
#25 Daniel Hodges Location Labs 8
#25 Todd C. Sorenson IBM 8
#25 Kenneth W. Todd IBM 8
#35 John C. Elliott IBM 7
#35 Scot Albright Global Solar Energy 7
#35 Brian A. Rinaldi IBM 7
#35 Matthew G. Borlick IBM 7
#35 Chariclea Scordilis-Kelley Sion Power 7
#35 Stefan Lehmann IBM 7
#35 Jianfeng Wu Honeywell 7
#35 John T. Olson IBM 7
#35 Urs Schoop Global Solar Energy 7
#35 Esteban Rios IBM 7
#35 Joshua J. Crawford IBM 7
#46 Matthew Sanchez IBM 6
#46 Christopher Justin Miller IBM 6
#46 Jeffrey R. Suarez IBM 6
#46 Theodore T. Harris, Jr. IBM 6
#46 Susan K. Candelaria IBM 6

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