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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Freeport, IL ranks #9,162 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 9 patents from 7 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Freeport, IL include Honeywell, Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag, Robert Bosch Gmbh. That works out to 0.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–7 of 7 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Fred Hintz Honeywell 2
1 David Golz Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag 2
3 Mario Groezinger 1
3 Michael Hoefer Robert Bosch Gmbh 1
3 Jeffrey L. Sands Taylor Commercial Foodservice 1
3 Jamie Speldrich Honeywell 1
3 Joel E. Leiser Elkay Manufacturing 1

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