Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Champaign, IL ranks #218 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 626 patents from 179 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Champaign, IL include Capital One Services, Broadcom, The Libman. That works out to 7.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 179 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jeremy Goodsitt Capital One Services 89
2 Vincent Pham Capital One Services 66
3 Anh Truong Capital One Services 52
#4 Reza Farivar Capital One Services 50
#5 Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad 28
#6 Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad 24
#7 Kenneth Taylor Capital One Services 21
#8 Constantine Polychronopoulos Broadcom 14
#8 Robert Kidd Broadcom 14
#10 Aaron Libman The Libman 11
#11 Robert J. Libman The Libman 7
#12 Jennifer Ann Steinke Pioneer (Corteva) 5
#12 Adnan Raja Broadcom 5
#12 Paul J. Hergenrother University Of Illinois 5
#15 Deepak Vasisht Microsoft 4
#15 Jing Jiang IBM 4
#15 Raj Mittra King Abdulaziz University 4
#15 Martin D. Burke University Of Illinois 4
#15 Scott R. White University Of Illinois 4
#15 Andrew D. Libman The Libman 4
#15 Yuntao Li State Farm 4
#15 Nancy R. Sottos University Of Illinois 4
#15 Bartow Wyatt Pavlov Media 4
#24 Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Alpha 3
#24 Hohyun Keum University Of Illinois 3
#24 Howard S. Roth Chemocentryx 3
#24 Kenneth S. Suslick University Of Illinois 3
#24 Abhishek Verma HP 3
#24 Brian E. Jurczyk Starfire Industries 3
#24 Nuri Oh Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 3
#24 Wen-Mei Hwu University Of Illinois 3
#24 Yuxuan Xie Sony 3
#24 Brian T. Cunningham Sru Biosystems 3
#24 Songbin Gong University Of Illinois 3
#24 Pengfei Song Mayo Foundation 3
#36 Dae-Hyeong Kim University Of Illinois 2
#36 Jeff Walker Cryovac 2
#36 Nolan Finch Caterpillar 2
#36 Mahanth K. Gowda IBM 2
#36 J. Gary Eden University Of Illinois 2
#36 Edward Becker 2
#36 Hyun Duk Kim Twitter 2
#36 Jianjun Cheng University Of Illinois 2
#36 Ruichen Wang Tencent 2
#36 Brice E. Uno University Of Illinois 2
#36 Chao-Hsin Wu National Taiwan University 2
#36 Virajith Jalaparti Microsoft 2
#36 Andrew Musser Audi Ag 2
#36 Ryan Shelton University Of Illinois 2
#36 Liuqing Gao University Of Illinois 2

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