Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bloomington, IN ranks #847 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 174 patents from 123 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bloomington, IN include Micron, Cook Medical Technologies, Cummins. That works out to 2.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 123 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jeremiah J. Willcock Micron 10
2 Blayne A. Roeder Cook Medical Technologies 9
3 Phanindra V. Garimella Cummins 5
#4 Kun Duan Snap 4
#4 Darin Schaeffer Cook Medical Technologies 4
#4 William W. Turner, Jr. Eli Lilly 4
#7 Kris Grube Brilliant Pet 2 3
#7 Brian Beach Tivo 3
#7 Lili Lin Emc Ip Holding Company 3
#10 Sundeep Kankanala Becton, Dickinson And 2
#10 Siddharth Vad Cook Medical Technologies 2
#10 Frank J. Fischer, Jr. Cook Medical Technologies 2
#10 Davorin K. Skender Cook Medical Technologies 2
#10 Kathryn Hardert Cook Medical Technologies 2
#10 Junle Qu Shenzhen University 2
#10 William E. Bowling Tk Elevator Innovation And Operations Gmbh 2
#10 Ralf Spindler Cook Medical Technologies 2
#10 William S. Gibbons, Jr. Cook Medical Technologies 2
#10 Kevin Hannula Research & Design Innovations 2
#10 Thomas P. Clement Mectra Labs 2
#10 Victor Havill Cook Medical Technologies 2
#10 Ram H. Paul Cook Medical Technologies 2
#10 Patrick Shaffer US Air Force 2
#10 Michael P. DeBruyne Cook Regentec 2
#25 Jennifer V. Haralovich 1
#25 Alfredo Minetti 1
#25 Roy M. Brown 1
#25 Tony C. Hopkins Cook Medical Technologies 1
#25 Dwayne Bevis Rolls-Royce North America 1
#25 Michael Tidwell University Of Washington 1
#25 Kristen M. Bunch Cook Medical Technologies 1
#25 L. Jean Camp Indiana University Research And Technology 1
#25 Joshua S. Santana Trustees Of Indiana University 1
#25 Steven Zucker Indiana University Research And Technology 1
#25 George Luis Irizarry US Air Force 1
#25 Joshua Sylvan Cook Medical Technologies 1
#25 Gary M. Hieftje Indiana University Research And Technology 1
#25 James W. Evans, II US Air Force 1
#25 Mohamed Fazni Aziz Boston Scientific Scimed 1
#25 David Christian Lentz Cook Medical Technologies 1
#25 Christopher G. Dixon Cook Regentec 1
#25 Ruth Osbrink Cook Medical Technologies 1
#25 Nathan W. Hecht Cook Medical Technologies 1
#25 Pengyun Li Indiana University Research And Technology 1
#25 Jinghua Zhong Cummins 1
#25 Alan Thomas Barker Kvi 1
#25 Braden Matthew Yake US Air Force 1
#25 Ryan Wynne US Air Force 1
#25 James Dean Fleetwood, II Hheli 1
#25 Martin F. Jarrold Trustees Of Indiana University 1

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