Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Appleton, WI ranks #398 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 360 patents from 183 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Appleton, WI include Illinois Tool Works, Oshkosh, Kimberly-Clark Worldwide. That works out to 4.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 51–100 of 183 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#34 Jake Zwayer Illinois Tool Works 2
#34 Jeffrey Dale Weber Illinois Tool Works 2
#34 David Kay Oshkosh 2
#34 Thomas Harold Roessler Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#34 Garry Roland Woltman Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#34 Farminder Singh Anand Gpcp Ip Holdings 2
#34 Mark R. Fisher Appvion 2
#34 David Edwin Radtke Illinois Tool Works 2
#34 Kayla Elizabeth Rouse Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#34 Brian A. Schwartz Illinois Tool Works 2
#34 David John Paulson Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#34 Timothy Andrew Robertson Gpcp Ip Holdings 2
#34 Maggie VanderHeiden Berger Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#34 Nianxi Yan Encapsys 2
#34 Jeremy J. Erdmann Illinois Tool Works 2
#34 Thomas Don Lahti Illinois Tool Works 2
#34 Xiaolin Fan Gpcp Ip Holdings 2
#34 Andrew Donati Ariens 2
#34 Douglas K. Brune Dow Agrosciences 2
#34 Seth Newlin Oshkosh 2
#34 James J. Feeney Wisconsin Film & Bag 2
#34 Kevin Nelson Curwood 2
#34 Peiguang Zhou Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#34 Joseph E. Feldhausen Illinois Tool Works 2
#34 Reza Ramazani-Rend Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#34 Daniel H. Sze Gpcp Ip Holdings 2
#34 Anthony VanBergen Salsich Illinois Tool Works 2
#34 Sandra Jacqueline Guinebretiere The Procter & Gamble 2
#34 Theodore T. Tower Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#34 Robert J. Seymour Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#81 Scott James Sadowski 1
#81 Caleb Robert Krisher Illinois Tool Works 1
#81 Chad Alexander Hladilek The Procter & Gamble 1
#81 Antonio J. Carrillo Ojeda Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 1
#81 Ian Draheim 1
#81 Biao Duan 1
#81 Darin Allen Engelhart Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 1
#81 Jeffrey Alan DeBroux Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 1
#81 Nancy E. Dawson Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 1
#81 Kenneth James Quella Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 1
#81 Evan Michael Foote Thomson Licensing 1
#81 Jason Aaron Morgan Gpcp Ip Holdings 1
#81 Travis Ian Bardsley The Procter & Gamble 1
#81 David B. Walbrun Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 1
#81 WanDuk Lee Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 1
#81 Daniel J. Geddes Georgia-Pacific 1
#81 Paul A. Selle Cmd 1
#81 Jeffery Richard Seidling Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 1
#81 Thomas J. Daul Gpcp Ip Holdings 1
#81 Saarth Mehrotra Ivani 1

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