Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pittsburgh, PA ranks #69 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 1,484 patents from 884 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pittsburgh, PA include Pdf Solutions, Tele Tracking Technologies, Dynamics. That works out to 4.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 884 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jonathan Haigh Pdf Solutions 25
2 Andrzej Strojwas Pdf Solutions 22
2 Carl Taylor Pdf Solutions 22
2 Marcin Strojwas Pdf Solutions 22
2 Vyacheslav Rovner Pdf Solutions 22
#6 Jason A. Spector Tele Tracking Technologies 13
#7 Jeffrey D. Mullen Dynamics 12
#7 Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt IBM 12
#9 Dave Philips Matthews International 10
#9 Chris Kroll Matthews International 10
#11 Olivier Bau Samsung 8
#11 Sean P. Kelly Bally Gaming 8
#11 Insoo Cho IBM 8
#14 Scott E. Hudson Disney 7
#14 Jeremy O'Halloran Helen Of Troy Limited 7
#16 Prasanna Velagapudi Berkshire Grey Operating Company 6
#16 Mohammed S. El-Kurdi Neograft Technologies 6
#16 Bruce Cloutier Dynamics 6
#16 John E. Drake Juniper Networks 6
#16 Marios Savvides Carnegie Mellon University 6
#16 Jay Scott Salmon Robert Bosch Gmbh 6
#16 Michael Dawson-Haggerty Berkshire Grey Operating Company 6
#16 Christopher T. Brown Eastman Kodak 6
#16 Lorenzo Soletti Neograft Technologies 6
#25 Matthew Shaw Wood Uatc 5
#25 Wenda Xu Motional Ad 5
#25 James A. Dedig Bayer Healthcare 5
#25 Emanuel J. Gottlieb Cameron International 5
#25 David LaRose Uber Technologies 5
#25 Anna Louise Von Reden GE 5
#25 Prashanth Mohan Qualcomm 5
#25 Joel S. Schuman University Of Pittsburgh 5
#25 John F. Kalafut Bayer Healthcare 5
#25 Richard Donnelly Beta Air 5
#25 Lauren Patricia Chodkowski Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 5
#25 Arthur E. Uber, III Bayer Healthcare 5
#25 Christopher J. Bettinger Carnegie Mellon University 5
#25 Jean-Sebastien Valois Uber Technologies 5
#39 Ki Joong Kim Samsung 4
#39 David O. Okonkwo 4
#39 Adam L. Berger Penthera Partners 4
#39 Naoki Otani Nissan Chemical Industries 4
#39 Zachary Ryan Jenkins Eaton 4
#39 Eric Meyhofer Uber Technologies 4
#39 Peter Wipf University Of Pittsburgh 4
#39 Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol Wombat Security Technologies 4
#39 Robert Bo Xiao Qeexo 4
#39 Detlef Koll Mmodal Ip 4
#39 Bryon Philip Pigg GE 4
#39 Sanjiv Singh Caterpillar 4

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