Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Deerfield, IL ranks #1,804 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 74 patents from 50 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Deerfield, IL include Medline Industries, Lp, State Farm, Graphcore Limited. That works out to 3.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 50 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Bruce Shapiro Medline Industries, Lp 7
2 Bradley A. Sliz State Farm 6
3 David Lacey Graphcore Limited 4
3 Ahmad Y. Sheikh Abb Vie 4
#5 Caren Wax Medline Industries, Lp 3
#6 Chungsea Shen Wm. Wrigley Jr. 2
#6 Paul Mutter Ford 2
#6 Matthew Frank Trapani Security Enhancement Systems 2
#6 Michael Goldman Sony 2
#6 Sang Hea Shim Acculab Co. 2
#11 Steven Pollack Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics 1
#11 Natalie Cherco Capital One Services 1
#11 James A. Hume Icu Medical 1
#11 Ivan S. Ganev Allstate Insurance 1
#11 Jason K. Schwartz 1
#11 Edward J. Bratton Walgreen 1
#11 Pavel Cherkashin Oracle 1
#11 Navneet R. Garg John Deere 1
#11 Nathan Sieracki Carefusion 2200 1
#11 Steven F. Borsand Trading Technologies International 1
#11 Joseph Zizzo Walgreen 1
#11 Debbie Diamond Imaginings 3 1
#11 Bryan Weber Thermage 1
#11 Carolyn Mulhern Accenture Global Solutions Limited 1
#11 Jean H. Rabisse General Binding 1
#11 Aaron L. Shifrin Accenture Global Solutions Limited 1
#11 Sabine Knappe Baxalta Incorporated 1
#11 Franco A. Cisternino Illinois Tool Works 1
#11 Jeffrey M. Jones Intuity Medical 1
#11 Johanna Kahn Mead Johnson Nutrition 1
#11 Jake Schmitz 1
#11 Robert Kronenberger American Needle 1
#11 Jeffrey Thomas Weber Intercontinental Great Brands 1
#11 Yin Hu Chen Motorola Mobility 1
#11 Steven R. Katz Fenwal 1
#11 Sylvia Chen Ford 1
#11 Robert S. John International Telephone And Telegraph 1
#11 Evan D. Linderman Carefusion 2200 1
#11 Trevor Warren Lissoos Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai 1
#11 Atul R. MAHABLESHWARKAR Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 1
#11 Brian Holland Stepan 1
#11 Susanne Till Baxalta Incorporated 1
#11 Benjamin D. Miller Remcor Products 1
#11 Mitchell Rabin 1
#11 Nathaniel Zane Piety Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund 1
#11 John C. Maas Lifetime Products 1
#11 David Adam Hornthal 1
#11 Erica Joy Hornthal 1
#11 Michael J. Zenor The Nielsen Company (Us) 1
#11 Ronald K. Worth Worth-Pfaff Innovations, Incorporated 1

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