Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Chicago, IL ranks #35 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 2,688 patents from 1,413 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Chicago, IL include IBM, Cleversafe, Paris Presents Incorporated. That works out to 1.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,413 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Greg R. Dhuse IBM 65
2 Wesley B. Leggette IBM 49
3 Ilya Volvovski IBM 40
#4 Manish Motwani IBM 38
#5 S. Christopher Gladwin Cleversafe 19
#5 Alyssa Carolyn Nicoline Paris Presents Incorporated 19
#7 Leon Stenneth Here Global B.V. 17
#8 Christian L. Castro Bally Gaming 16
#8 Paul M. Lesley Bally Gaming 16
#10 Tino Soelberg Steelseries Aps 14
#11 Simcha Kanter Humancentric Ventures 13
#11 James D. Lynch Here Global B.V. 13
#13 Blake Konrardy State Farm 12
#14 Ravi Kuchibhotla Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 10
#14 Dana Ferguson Allstate Insurance 10
#14 Antonio Facchetti Polytec Gmbh 10
#14 Chris Murray Bradley Fixtures 10
#18 Bryan Adrian Lauer Gogo 9
#18 Gurpreet Singh Intel 9
#18 Brian R. Ray Cnh Industrial America 9
#18 Tong Wu Shanghai Tianma Am-Oled Co. 9
#22 Alberto Velez Holly Hunt Enterprises 8
#22 Liam Hawry Berlin Packaging 8
#22 Gary A. Ray The Boeing 8
#22 Paul Brian Siebert Brunswick 8
#22 Mark Miller Cfph 8
#22 John D. Leedle Rex Medical 8
#22 Martin Kastner Meyer Intellectual Properties 8
#22 Jared S. Snyder Allstate Insurance 8
#22 Robert A. West Trading Technologies International 8
#22 James Fowe Here Global B.V. 8
#22 Mark V. Slusar Allstate Insurance 8
#22 Eric Huls Allstate Insurance 8
#34 Shafiq Shariff Groupon 7
#34 Kumar Abhijeet IBM 7
#34 Holly Prouty The Hillman Group 7
#34 Yogesh R. Vedpathak IBM 7
#34 Timothy C. Loose Wms Gaming 7
#34 Jason Luzinski Nucurrent 7
#34 Michael J. Tabb IBM 7
#34 Alberto Peralta Nucurrent 7
#34 Julia B. Burke Whirlpool 7
#34 Scott James Thompson Ford 7
#34 Jacob Babcock Nucurrent 7
#34 Ajit Rajagopalan Nucurrent 7
#34 Loren Veltrop Prince Castle 7
#34 Justin Wishne Capital One Services 7
#48 Michael Colin Storm IBM 6
#48 Damon E. Gura Wms Gaming 6
#48 Robert J. Klein Cummins-Allison 6

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