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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cologne, DE ranks #388 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 386 patents from 243 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cologne, DE include Bayer Cropscience, Ford, Andreas Fahl Medizintechnik-Vertrieb Gmbh.

Showing 1–50 of 243 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kerstin Ilg Bayer Cropscience 16
2 Claudio Messale Ford 10
3 Harald Stoffels Ford 6
3 Jan Mehring Ford 6
3 Andreas Fahl Andreas Fahl Medizintechnik-Vertrieb Gmbh 6
#6 Andre-Armand Finette Basell Polyolefine Gmbh 5
#6 Jordan Demkiw Ford 5
#8 Silvio Decker Inficon Ag 4
#8 Robert Spahl Ford 4
#8 Martin Sicken Clariant Finance (Bvi) Limited 4
#8 Claudio Cinquemani Reifenhäuser Gmbh & Co. Kg Maschinenfabrik 4
#8 Christoph Eggert Covestro Deutschland Ag 4
#8 Thilo Schmidt Zf Friedrichshafen Ag 4
#14 Arnd Voerste Bayer Cropscience 3
#14 Klaus Muellen Basf Se 3
#14 Lars Backhaus 3
#14 Alexander Henseler Lanxess Deutschland Gmbh 3
#14 Michael Baecker Basf Se 3
#14 Igor Fischbein Ford 3
#14 Bianca Seelig Basf Se 3
#14 Frank Linke Lanxess Deutschland Gmbh 3
#14 Ursula Huchel Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 3
#14 Uta Post Birkenstock Sales Gmbh 3
#14 Konstantinos Markou Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 3
#14 Ruddy Cittadini Visteon Global Technologies 3
#14 Jan Linsel Ford 3
#14 Attila Benak Ford 3
#14 Johannes Stausberg Hanon Systems 3
#14 Axel Klatt Deutsche Telekom Ag 3
#14 Ludwig Stump Ford 3
#14 Hartwig Dümler Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 3
#14 Frederik Belzl Visteon Global Technologies 3
#33 Simon Moritz Ericsson 2
#33 Kai Hirsch Unger Marketing International 2
#33 Daniel Bakonyi Pharmazell Gmbh 2
#33 Heinrich Hermann Josef Meissner Gmbh & Co. Kg 2
#33 Marcel Kamps 2
#33 Heinz Gassen Carrier 2
#33 Alwin Timmermann Saint-Gobain Glass France 2
#33 Ibrahim Koukan Kautex Textron Gmbh & Co. Kg 2
#33 Stefan Kleinfeld Magna Exteriors 2
#33 Holger Schneebeck Deutsche Post Ag 2
#33 Simon Baales Ford 2
#33 Sebastian Floss 2
#33 Bertus Eggen IBM 2
#33 Axel Griesbeck Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 2
#33 Frank-Oliver Pilarek Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 2
#33 Daniel Wetzig Inficon Ag 2
#33 Bernd Springer Bayer Cropscience 2
#33 Andreas Bosio Miltenyi Biotec 2