Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Dunlap, IL ranks #1,017 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 153 patents from 73 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Dunlap, IL include Caterpillar, Byd Company Limited, Achates Power. That works out to 95.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 73 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Thomas Marshall Congdon Caterpillar 13
2 Yanchai Zhang Caterpillar 7
3 Mo Wei Caterpillar 6
#4 Jaswinder Singh Caterpillar 5
#4 Samuel August Buckholz Caterpillar 5
#6 Xuefei Hu Caterpillar 4
#6 Diego Caceres Caterpillar 4
#6 Rammagy Yoeu Caterpillar 4
#6 Craig P. Hittle Caterpillar 4
#6 Zhaoxu Dong Caterpillar 4
#6 Matthew Jordan Engfehr Caterpillar 4
#6 Benoit Abello Caterpillar 4
#6 Mihai Mircea Balan Caterpillar 4
#14 Umakanth Sakaray Caterpillar 3
#14 Matthew D. Johnson Caterpillar 3
#14 Wade J. Robel Caterpillar 3
#14 Yongliang Zhu Caterpillar 3
#14 Joshua S. Whitmore Caterpillar 3
#14 David A. Pierpont Caterpillar 3
#14 Ahmed Khalil Caterpillar 3
#21 Bradley P. Krone Caterpillar 2
#21 Jianhua Zhang Byd Company Limited 2
#21 Jackson Wai Caterpillar 2
#21 Vadiraj P. Kulkarni Achates Power 2
#21 Arjun Veneshetty Caterpillar 2
#21 John D. Parker IBM 2
#21 Jesse Gerdes Caterpillar 2
#21 Benjamin J. Hodel Caterpillar 2
#21 Adam Roesner Medline Industries, Lp 2
#21 Daniel J. Sordelet Caterpillar 2
#21 Paul Arthur Zwart Caterpillar 2
#32 Rajesh Paranjape Caterpillar 1
#32 Scott H. Magner Caterpillar 1
#32 Jay Venkataraghavan Caterpillar 1
#32 Gordon W. Johnson Gilbarco 1
#32 Hoisan Kim Caterpillar 1
#32 Purvarag S. Shah Caterpillar 1
#32 Tim Alcenius Caterpillar 1
#32 Pennapa Manitchotpisit USDA 1
#32 Ken L. Stratton Caterpillar 1
#32 Sarah Elizabeth Schonert Caterpillar 1
#32 Carl H. Rempert Caterpillar 1
#32 Yanli Yang Genentech 1
#32 George Gassman Wahl Clipper 1
#32 Suresh Sundaram Endotronix 1
#32 Dachuan Yu Caterpillar 1
#32 Peter Petrany Caterpillar 1
#32 John M. Tanner Caterpillar 1
#32 Richard Leigh Adrian Caterpillar 1
#32 Carl J. Moberg Caterpillar 1

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