Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Columbus, OH ranks #220 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 623 patents from 429 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Columbus, OH include Coulter Ventures, Llc., Great Lakes Neurotechnologies, Battelle Memorial Institute. That works out to 0.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 429 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 William Henniger Coulter Ventures, Llc. 13
2 Bryan Adams Coulter Ventures, Llc. 11
3 Thomas O Mera Great Lakes Neurotechnologies 8
#4 Ramanathan S. Lalgudi Battelle Memorial Institute 7
#5 Liang Zeng Sony 6
#5 Brian Dutro Unknown 6
#5 Sean W. Svendsen American Standard 6
#8 Eric J. Boettcher Honda Motor Co. 5
#8 Ryan R. Berger Oms Investments 5
#8 Kannan Srinivasan Dionex 5
#8 Calin Constantin Solomon Midmark 5
#8 Donald Collins Meves Melnor 5
#13 David B. Smathers Tosoh Smd 4
#13 Daniel Wisniewski Oms Investments 4
#13 Daniel A. Haber The General Hospital 4
#13 Jed Johnson Nanofiber Solutions 4
#13 Geralyn O. Duska-McEwen Abbott 4
#13 Louis G. Conforti Washington Prime Group 4
#13 Yuan Zheng Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co. 4
#13 Elena Y. Chung Ecocatalytic 4
#13 Douglas A. Thornton Battelle Memorial Institute 4
#13 Tim Johnson Ncs Multistage 4
#23 Shishi Jiang Applied Materials 3
#23 Michael A. Caligiuri Ohio State Innovation Foundation 3
#23 Yiye Ruan Walmart Apollo 3
#23 Bill Henniger Coulter Ventures, Llc. 3
#23 Mohan Chandra Baro Bertec 3
#23 Ryan Miller Ensemble Rcm 3
#23 Daniel B. Garbark Battelle Memorial Institute 3
#23 Rebekah Farrar Lisnr 3
#23 Juan Miranda Huntington Bancshares Incorporated 3
#23 Sebastian Osorio Honda Motor Co. 3
#23 Marshall McPeek 3
#23 Gregory H. Butcher Stolle Machinery Company 3
#23 Chien-Liang Lin United Microelectronics 3
#23 Adam Parker Catalent U.K. Swindon Zydis Limited 3
#23 Richard A. Grazzini Garden Genetics 3
#23 Mariko Elaine Berg Honda Motor Co. 3
#23 Garet Riley Miller Anchor Hocking 3
#23 Erik Turocy Reliance Medical Products 3
#23 William G. Atterbury Eli Lilly 3
#42 Dustin J. Wolters 2
#42 Brian K. Kaspar Nationwide Children'S Hospital 2
#42 Joshua Robert Sikora Golden Bear 2
#42 Jim Cook Honeywell 2
#42 Li Gong Oracle 2
#42 Natalie Stauffer Huntington Bancshares Incorporated 2
#42 Devan OHST Nanofiber Solutions 2
#42 Nicolas Sebastien Wein Research Institute At Nationwide Children'S Hospital 2
#42 Jeff Ellis Battelle Memorial Institute 2

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