Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Summit, NJ ranks #990 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 135 patents from 65 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Summit, NJ include Unknown, L'Oreal, Futurewei Technologies. That works out to 5.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 65 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Catherine Lin-Hendel Unknown 7
2 Caroline Goget L'Oreal 5
2 Zhengxiang Ma Futurewei Technologies 5
2 Peter R. Kinget Columbia University 5
2 Rudolf H. Hendel Periodic Structures 5
#6 Kimberly McCormack Bayer Healthcare 4
#6 Eric Stolten Adp 4
#6 Eric Hedrick Pharmacyclics 4
#6 Nathan Boersen Signal Pharmaceuticals 4
#6 Bernard Duetsch A.K. Stamping Company 4
#6 Dennis Naksen Ingersoll-Rand 4
#12 Michiel A. U. Bacchiani Google 3
#12 Thomas L. Marzetta Alcatel Lucent 3
#12 Ronald Kim Merck 3
#12 Milana Maletic Merck 3
#12 Guangli Hu Corning Incorporated 3
#12 Divesh Srivastava AT&T 3
#12 Preeti Kamakoti ExxonMobil 3
#12 Rajesh Chopra Bristol-Myers Squibb 3
#20 David Knaack Warsaw Orthopedic 2
#20 Christian Makaya IBM 2
#20 Antonio Christian Ferretti Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#20 Mario Ibrahim Asco Power Technologies 2
#20 George P. Vella-Coleiro Commscope Technologies 2
#20 Joseph C. Noviello Bgc Partners 2
#20 Hubert Rae McLellan, Jr. AT&T 2
#20 Marc Rind Adp 2
#20 Beril Erkin Dialogic 2
#20 Hanwoong Darren Cho Adp 2
#20 Henry Hin Lee Chan The General Hospital 2
#20 Roger P. Bakale Sepracor 2
#20 Sian Chong J. Lee 2
#20 Petr Vachal Merck 2
#34 Jonathan T. Betz Google 1
#34 Fabien Boulineau L'Oreal 1
#34 Gary W. Elko Mh Acoustics 1
#34 Mark Brenner Ods Technologies 1
#34 Dorothy Zarsky AT&T 1
#34 Arnab Das Qualcomm 1
#34 Hugh Zachary Marks West Pharma. Services Il 1
#34 Robert J. Gartside Stone & Webster Engineering 1
#34 Wim Sweldens AT&T 1
#34 Tom Sutton AbbVie 1
#34 David Ordini 1
#34 Thomas E. Heebner Nyse Holdings 1
#34 Gioconda V. Gallo Merck 1
#34 James W. Toffey Tradeweb Markets 1
#34 Alexander Varshavsky MIT 1
#34 Catherine G. Hendel 1
#34 Jeonghoon Sun Amgen 1

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