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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Deerfield, IL ranks #1,749 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 73 patents from 44 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Deerfield, IL include Abb Vie, Discover Financial Services, Intercontinental Great Brands. That works out to 3.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–44 of 44 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Esra Ozdaryal Abb Vie 5
2 Sheryl Yasger Discover Financial Services 4
2 Evan D. Linderman 4
2 Ahmad Y. Sheikh Abb Vie 4
2 Ronald H. Exner Intercontinental Great Brands 4
2 Jeffrey Thomas Weber Intercontinental Great Brands 4
#7 Matthew David Fierer 3
#7 Gregory D. Venburg Valent Biosciences 3
#9 Kris Getty Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 2
#9 YinHu Chen Motorola Mobility 2
#9 Jeffrey M. Jones Intuity Medical 2
#9 Yin Hu Chen Motorola Mobility 2
#9 Marc Rosenberg 2
#9 Howard R. Heyman Abb Vie 2
#15 Norman Diamond Federal Signal 1
#15 Erica Hammack B&G Foods North America 1
#15 Sarah C. Humke Kraft Foods Group Brands 1
#15 Mitchell J. Weinstein Hollister Incorporated 1
#15 Johanna Kahn Mead Johnson Nutrition 1
#15 Kripa Rajshekhar University Of North Carolina At Charlotte 1
#15 Stephen Salinger 1
#15 Michael Benson Hormel Foods 1
#15 Steven R. Katz Fenwal 1
#15 Bruce Shapiro Medline Industries, Lp 1
#15 Jeffrey Arthur Meunier Shure Acquisition Holdings 1
#15 Ronald L. Meibach 1
#15 Anatoly Agulnik 1
#15 Jeffrey E. Michel Bally Gaming 1
#15 Julia Benson 1
#15 Jayne ZIMMERMAN Abb Vie 1
#15 Richard T. Schwartz Wms Gaming 1
#15 Michael D. Paley 1
#15 Virgil Seribo Siemens Building Technologies Ag 1
#15 Leslie B Heffez 1
#15 Rich Majka Walgreen 1
#15 Jason K. Schwartz 1
#15 John C. Hoenninger, III University of California 1
#15 Timothy James Nacey 1
#15 Kim Haines Medline Industries, Lp 1
#15 Vivek Naik Motorola Mobility 1
#15 Benjamin D. Miller Remcor Products 1
#15 Lili Loni Barsky Unknown 1
#15 Christopher W. Dunkle 1
#15 Michael J. Zenor The Nielsen Company (Us) 1

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