Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wheaton, IL ranks #1,070 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 144 patents from 77 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wheaton, IL include Cisco, Vertigo Media, Allstate Insurance. That works out to 2.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 77 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles Calvin Byers Cisco 18
2 Pavel Savenok Vertigo Media 6
2 Robert Wasserman Allstate Insurance 6
2 Victor Zaderej Molex 6
#5 Mahesh Krishnamurthy Software Motor 5
#6 Daniel R. Vissers Vissers Battery 4
#7 Guy Rosenthal United States Gypsum 3
#7 Brandon Janowiak Molex 3
#7 Brad Nicholas Uptake Technologies 3
#7 Robert L. Mehlberg Uop 3
#7 Todd Webb Groupon 3
#7 Joseph Gerard Schultz Nxp Usa 3
#13 Jeremiah Fitzgerald Panoscape Holdings 2
#13 Boris FIGOVSKY Hysolate 2
#13 Frank M. Simonutti Wilson Sporting Goods 2
#13 Joseph Coretti, Jr. B-O-F 2
#13 Christopher Fay The Boeing 2
#13 Anders Bitsch-Larsen Bp Corporation North America 2
#13 Naikang Kuan Tyson Foods 2
#13 Robert Conrad Ball Horticultural 2
#13 David J. Montsma Gogo 2
#13 John Joseph King Smart Power Co. 2
#13 James T. Wexler Uop 2
#13 Anthony G. Sommese Nalco Chemical 2
#13 Michael D. Doyle Eolas Technologies 2
#13 Daniel P. Malee AT&T 2
#13 Scott M. Roney Uop 2
#13 Malcolm E. Keith Midaco 2
#29 David T. Eddington WARF 1
#29 Stephen K. Gray Uchicago Argonne 1
#29 Logan Blair Milwaukee Electric Tool 1
#29 Vince G. Reiling Suncoke Technology And Development 1
#29 Christoph H. Grein Epir Technologies 1
#29 Christopher T. Schaafsma Illinois Tool Works 1
#29 Shannyn Stuart General Mills 1
#29 Rudolf David Gonzalez International Truck Intellectual Property Company 1
#29 Matthew W. Field 1
#29 Dale Matthew Weaver Adobe 1
#29 Dennis L. MacDonald Ecolab Usa 1
#29 David Savenok Vertigo Media 1
#29 William L. Zeuch 1
#29 Thomas J. Lanagan 1
#29 Robert W. Pipal University Of Illinois 1
#29 Roger W. Fowee Nalco Chemical 1
#29 Patrick Quinn International Truck Intellectual Property Company 1
#29 Brian Ostberg Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy 1
#29 William David Collings R. R. Donnelley & Sons 1
#29 Joseph Ferron Robertshaw Controls 1
#29 Valeri A. Lebedev Muons 1
#29 Lynn Rule 1

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