Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bartlesville, OK ranks #648 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 218 patents from 74 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bartlesville, OK include Chevron, Schlumberger Technology, Phillips Petroleum. That works out to 5.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 74 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Max P. McDaniel Chevron 23
2 Kathy S. Clear Chevron 14
3 Qing Yang Chevron 9
3 Eric D. Schwerdtfeger Chevron 9
#5 James A. Suttil 7
#5 Neal D. McDaniel 7
#7 Jeremy M. Praetorius Chevron 6
#8 Kathy Woody 5
#8 Pasquale Iacono Chevron 5
#8 William C. Ellis Chevron 5
#8 David Milton Eslinger Schlumberger Technology 5
#8 Hualong Pan 5
#8 Chung Ching Tso Chevron 5
#8 Yongwoo Inn Chevron 5
#8 Bruce B. Randolph Phillips Petroleum 5
#8 Anthony O. Baldridge 5
#17 Masud M. Monwar Chevron 4
#17 Youlu Yu Chevron 4
#17 Mitchell D. Refvik Chevron 4
#17 Ashish M. Sukhadia Chevron 4
#21 Kenneth M. Lassen Chevron 3
#21 Riley B. Needham 3
#21 Jared L. Barr Chevron 3
#21 Graham R. Lief Chevron 3
#21 Min Cheng 3
#21 Marshall D. Bishop Phillips Petroleum 3
#21 Richard M. Buck Chevron 3
#21 Dwayne B. Watt John Deere 3
#21 Terry M. CHRISTIAN 3
#30 Paula Delgado 2
#30 Jinfeng Lai 2
#30 Amit Palkar 2
#30 Michael R. Morrill 2
#30 Sarah Eppinger Chevron 2
#30 Faye L. Scully 2
#30 Sharmila Samaroo 2
#30 Jinping Zhou Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co. 2
#30 Kevin M. Allen John Deere 2
#30 James H. Hedges 2
#40 Russell Bookout Franklin Electric Co. 1
#40 William Chadwick Ellis Carnegie Mellon University 1
#40 Johnnie E. Anderson Chevron 1
#40 Jay V. Claeys 1
#40 Laura Ann Martin Logmein 1
#40 Joe D. Allison 1
#40 Michelle Fiedler Xdi Holdings 1
#40 David R. Zornes 1
#40 Mingfei Liu 1
#40 Shawn M. Flom Chevron 1
#40 John Stephen Newland 1

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