Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Buffalo Grove, IL ranks #789 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 184 patents from 103 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Buffalo Grove, IL include IBM, Nucurrent, Here Global B.V.. That works out to 4.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 103 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Harsha Hegde IBM 9
2 Robert Giometti Nucurrent 8
2 Jingwei Xu Here Global B.V. 8
#4 Oleg Los Nucurrent 7
#5 Amit H. Lamba IBM 5
#5 Stanislav Makarskyy Allscripts Software 5
#7 Eugene Visotsky Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy 4
#7 Igor Chmil Allscripts Software 4
#7 Christopher Ludwig Illinois Tool Works 4
#7 Yan Zhang Zebra Technologies 4
#7 James J. GU Fluid Handling 4
#12 Ka L. Lok Uop 3
#12 Alex Averbuch Here Global B.V. 3
#12 Lisa Bauer Medline Industries, Lp 3
#12 Jay Moon Nuwave 3
#12 Mark D. Hansen Allstate Insurance 3
#12 Arielle Borisov Medline Industries, Lp 3
#18 Joseph Fox Unknown 2
#18 Alberto C. Savage Medline Industries, Lp 2
#18 Amitabha Ghosh Motorola Mobility 2
#18 Caleb Brian Slaughter Gore Allstate Insurance 2
#18 Boris Goldberg Applied Materials 2
#18 Craig Sandford Fenwal 2
#18 Igor Goodman Isco International 2
#18 Michael Joseph Demar Citrix Systems 2
#18 Jerry Chern Unknown 2
#18 Sameer Khaladkar Allstate Insurance 2
#18 Xiangdong Xu Pharmacia 2
#18 Xinhong Ding Siemens Medical Solutions Usa 2
#18 Irina Guberman Xaptum 2
#18 Viral Varshney 2
#18 Bill Myers Isco International 2
#18 Sanford Allan Victor Uop 2
#18 Jason R. Gebhardt S. C. Johnson & Son 2
#18 Michael Aaron Cohen Belwith Products 2
#36 GONEN PELEG DAHAN 1
#36 Keith W. Donaldson Sionyx 1
#36 Ornis Mala 1
#36 Honghui Xu Shure Acquisition Holdings 1
#36 Vladislav Modilevsky Sg Gaming 1
#36 Vivek Shah Molex 1
#36 Ryan Magee Applied Materials 1
#36 Charles Cox Zenith Radio 1
#36 Yingchun Xu Utstarcom 1
#36 Fanqing Meng 1
#36 Barry German Hydraforce 1
#36 Alex Oksengendler Osram Sylvania 1
#36 Herman Deutsch Election Systems & Software 1
#36 Scott Yin Stepan 1
#36 Matthew S. Gudeman 1

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