Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Waunakee, WI ranks #2,562 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 48 patents from 21 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Waunakee, WI include Wolf Appliance, Promega, WARF. That works out to 3.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–21 of 21 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Colin R. Clerkin Wolf Appliance 7
2 Mary Hall Promega 6
3 William L. Murphy WARF 5
#4 Devin Coyle Penda 4
#5 Patrick Sharpe Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Ip Unlimited 3
#5 Daniel R. Feldmeier Kraft Foods Group Brands 3
#5 Muluken Tilahun Kraft Foods Group Brands 3
#8 Glenn Polinsky Unknown 2
#8 Michael E. Cahill Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics 2
#8 Anderson Bortoletto Whirlpool 2
#11 Jeff Betthauser Abs Global 1
#11 James D. Siddell Group14 Technologies 1
#11 Wen Bo Wang Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics 1
#11 Melinda L. Verdone 1
#11 Nigel Cook WARF 1
#11 William Dinauer Lasx Industries 1
#11 Brad Swanson Cellular Dynamics International 1
#11 Robert Radwin WARF 1
#11 Marjorie Faust Abs Global 1
#11 Glenn Liu WARF 1
#11 Yanxin Star Gao Dow Agrosciences 1

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