Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gainesville, FL ranks #276 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 494 patents from 311 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gainesville, FL include The Boeing, Florida Foundation Seed Producers, University of Florida. That works out to 3.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 311 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John E. Rogers The Boeing 18
2 David G. Clark Florida Foundation Seed Producers 11
3 Mavis Agbandje-McKenna University of Florida 7
3 Ethan Fieldman Study Social 7
#5 Thomas Ettor Angelini University of Florida 6
#5 Wallace Gregory Sawyer University of Florida 6
#7 Arun Srivastava University of Florida 5
#7 Yong-Kyu Yoon University of Florida 5
#7 Mark M. Tehranipoor University of Florida 5
#7 Domenic J. Forte University of Florida 5
#7 Steven Albert Benner Eragen Biosciences 5
#7 Christine E. Schmidt University Of Texas System 5
#13 David P. Arnold University of Florida 4
#13 Zhongliang Wang Ubtech Robotics Corp 4
#13 Roy Curtiss, III Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 4
#13 Carlos Eduardo De Andrade AT&T 4
#13 Feng Huang Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 4
#18 George Vladimirovich Aslanidi University of Florida 3
#18 Kim M. Van Vliet University of Florida 3
#18 Alfred S. Lewin University of Florida 3
#18 Scott Jantz Opentv 3
#18 Kai Yang Beijing Sensetime Technology Development Co. 3
#18 Shravan Gaonkar Netapp 3
#18 Gregory Scott YODER Microsoft 3
#18 Jenshan Lin University of Florida 3
#18 Wei Wei University of Florida 3
#18 Swarup Bhunia University of Florida 3
#18 Renwei Mei University of Florida 3
#18 Ed Thurmond Clearone 3
#18 Tapomoy Bhattacharjee University of Florida 3
#18 Gideon Shapiro Epizyme 3
#18 Yong Huang University of Florida 3
#18 Patricio R. Munoz Del Valle Florida Foundation Seed Producers 3
#18 Qiuhong Li University of Florida 3
#18 Sergei Zolotukhin University of Florida 3
#18 Brendon Allen Dormakaba Usa 3
#18 Saeed Moghaddam University of Florida 3
#18 Kenneth B. Wagener University of Florida 3
#18 Michele Viola Manuel University of Florida 3
#18 Navid Asadizanjani University of Florida 3
#18 Timothy Mark Dalrymple Magic Leap 3
#42 Jose C. Principe University of Florida 2
#42 Yin Fang University of Florida 2
#42 Byra Ferkovich Clearone 2
#42 Cristhian J. Ildefonso University of Florida 2
#42 Bradley Jay Willenberg University Of Central Florida 2
#42 Mark David Simon MIT 2
#42 Samsun Lampotang University of Florida 2
#42 Sarah Scott University of Florida 2
#42 Prabhat Kumar Mishra University of Florida 2

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