Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Naperville, IL ranks #233 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 600 patents from 332 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Naperville, IL include Futurewei Technologies, IBM, Motorola Mobility. That works out to 4.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 332 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Philippe Sartori Futurewei Technologies 15
2 Asimuddin Kazi IBM 13
3 Ranjeet Gupta Motorola Mobility 12
#4 Alfred C. Li United States Gypsum 11
#5 Chi T. Tran 7
#6 Patrick J. Walsh Gogo 6
#6 Michael G. Borchardt The Glad Products 6
#6 Haibo Guo Cnh Industrial America 6
#9 Franco V. Borich Pure Storage 5
#9 Philip J. Dambach Molex 5
#9 Jing-Yun Shyr IBM 5
#9 David Worth Caterpillar 5
#9 Paul N. Georgelos Clear Lam Packaging 5
#9 Athul Prasad Nokia Technologies Oy 5
#9 Paul J. Radek Wms Gaming 5
#9 Peter E. Reed Nalco Chemical 5
#9 Anton Anastassov Here Global B.V. 5
#9 Richard W. Brotzman, Jr. Motorola Mobility 5
#19 Yugang Sun University Of Illinois 4
#19 Ronald A. Nordin Panduit 4
#19 Mingli Wei Nalco Company 4
#19 Christopher S. Johnson Uchicago Argonne 4
#19 Ken Czech Focal Point 4
#19 Sunil Chintakindi Allstate Insurance 4
#19 John R. Wilson Sloan Valve 4
#19 Lu Zhang Corning Incorporated 4
#19 Jeffrey Bull Wilton Industries 4
#19 T. Alan Keahey IBM 4
#19 Anil U. Mane Uchicago Argonne 4
#19 Frank A. Harwath Molex 4
#19 Konstantin Livanos Cisco 4
#19 Jung-Woo Seo Samsung 4
#19 David L. Brunker Molex 4
#19 Lee M. Chow AT&T 4
#19 Richard C. Younce Tellabs Operations 4
#19 Bei-Hong Liang Masonite 4
#37 Pengfei Ma Caterpillar 3
#37 Yigang Cai Alcatel Lucent 3
#37 Shakeel Ur-Rehman Fairlife 3
#37 Xiaolun Huang Federal Signal 3
#37 Michael S. Haas S. C. Johnson & Son 3
#37 Ali Erdemir Uchicago Argonne 3
#37 Navneet Gulati Cnh Industrial America 3
#37 Shreecharan Kanchanavally Whirlpool 3
#37 Jung Je Woo Hyundai Motor 3
#37 Kathleen A. Carron Delta Faucet 3
#37 Chunguang Jing Euclid Techlabs 3
#37 Brian C. Donnelly Suncast Technologies 3
#37 Thomas M. Bartos Bp Corporation North America 3
#37 Michael J. Pellin Uchicago Argonne 3

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