Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Palatine, IL ranks #598 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 253 patents from 113 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Palatine, IL include Motorola, Futurewei Technologies, Steelseries Aps. That works out to 3.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 113 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Brian Classon Motorola 15
2 Jialing Liu Futurewei Technologies 14
3 Francis Arnold Grever Steelseries Aps 11
3 Vipul Desai Futurewei Technologies 11
#5 Stanley J. Frey Uop 10
#6 Jeremy Rubens Robert Bosch Gmbh 8
#7 Surender Kumar Allstate Insurance 7
#7 Richard Bauer Prince Castle 7
#9 Jonathan Prendergast Fenwal 5
#9 Diana MAAMARI Qualcomm 5
#11 Brian M. McMahon Regalo International 4
#11 Mohammed Abdul-Gaffoor Motorola Mobility 4
#11 Stephen P. Moore Illinois Tool Works 4
#11 Jonathan Chee Yeen Chong Elkay Manufacturing 4
#15 Ryan L. Francis Illinois Tool Works 3
#15 Hugh K. Smith Motorola Mobility 3
#15 John Swafford Rtc Industries 3
#15 Kevin J. O'Connell Symbol Technologies 3
#15 Gary M. Bold Littelfuse 3
#15 Palani Sakthi IBM 3
#15 Hao A. Chen Mannington Mills 3
#15 Phillip F. Daly Uop 3
#15 Narayanan Venkitaraman Arris Enterprises 3
#15 Young S. Lee Arris Enterprises 3
#15 Nikhil Marathe AT&T 3
#15 Mark C. Pace Wms Gaming 3
#15 Venugopal Vasudevan Arris Enterprises 3
#28 Dadong Wan Accenture Global Services Limited 2
#28 David Grant Cason Shure Acquisition Holdings 2
#28 Michael Walter Smith Termax 2
#28 Komal Dutta Siemens Healthcare Limited 2
#28 Chris Olson Peregrine Semiconductor 2
#28 Prashant Kumar Microsoft 2
#28 Alan M. Frazier IBM 2
#28 Richard C. Carlson Metrom Rail 2
#28 Matthew Sherman Hanson Bison Gear & Engineering 2
#28 William J. Kapolas Silgan White Cap 2
#28 Kerry Quinn General Kinematics 2
#28 John M. Bergstrom Walgreen 2
#28 Gabriel Burca Motorola Mobility 2
#28 Brian Moore Motorola 2
#28 Kishore Channabasavaiah IBM 2
#28 Amit Malik Fireeye 2
#28 Elizabeth Reuter Masco Corporation Of Indiana 2
#28 Robert J. Longua Cnh Industrial America 2
#28 Michael R. Van de Cotte Uop 2
#47 Anton Kalisiak Weber-Stephen Products 1
#47 Ed Pellegrini Unknown 1
#47 Wingate K. Williams Bally Gaming 1
#47 Ralph Dammertz Robert Bosch Gmbh 1

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