Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gurnee, IL ranks #1,259 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 111 patents from 61 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gurnee, IL include Carrier, Johnson Controls Technology, Homewerks Worldwide. That works out to 3.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 61 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John F. Hannon Carrier 14
2 Kevin A. Weiss Johnson Controls Technology 8
3 Michael Malaker Homewerks Worldwide 6
#4 Timothy L. Ruchti Icu Medical 5
#5 Mohamed-Eslam F. Mohamed Abb Vie 4
#6 Shuang Chen Abb Vie 3
#6 William K. Arnold Hollister Incorporated 3
#6 Bryan Keith Corder Allstate Insurance 3
#6 Cristian Adolfo Menzel Bueno Baxter Healthcare Sa 3
#6 Laura A. Williams Abb Vie 3
#11 Yu Pu Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#11 Ajith Rao United States Gypsum 2
#11 Pratik M. Kamdar Google 2
#11 Steven Buechel 2
#11 Jack E. Weimer Teradyne 2
#11 Gary Dean Kamees Heathrow Scientific 2
#11 Panayiotis P. Constantinides Clarus Therapeutics 2
#11 Ashish Trivedi Hollister Incorporated 2
#19 Stephen James Cox Allegiance 1
#19 David Pacenti Abbott 1
#19 Richard C. Betori Northwestern University 1
#19 Cristian Adolfo Menzel Bueno 1
#19 Aleksandra Baranczak Scripps Research 1
#19 Marc Largo Illinois Tool Works 1
#19 Jeffrey S. Vanhoof Motorola Mobility 1
#19 Emily Brazil Valent Biosciences 1
#19 Timothy J. Sutherland Motorola Mobility 1
#19 Luping Liu Merck 1
#19 Kelly A. Markle Rust-Oleum 1
#19 M. Felicia Bogdan Abbott 1
#19 Ralph Adam Benjamin Tyner Allstate Insurance 1
#19 Michael H. Bertucci Diversey 1
#19 Joel D. Shutt Hollister Incorporated 1
#19 Simon Hughes Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 1
#19 Susan Gayda Abbott 1
#19 Shawn F. Bairstow Baxter Healthcare Sa 1
#19 Brian P. Enright Abb Vie 1
#19 Malcolm S. Penman Fuji Hunt Photographic Chemicals 1
#19 Shui-Ping Zhu Arkema 1
#19 Ray S. Peppiatt Rain Bird 1
#19 Surya Pratap Rai Abbott 1
#19 Daniel N. Mazzarella Peer Bearing 1
#19 Ye Huang Abb Vie 1
#19 Naveen Aerrabotu Motorola 1
#19 Daniel Salinas, Jr. Halliburton Energy Services 1
#19 Yanfei Peng United States Gypsum 1
#19 Siriporn Toongsuwan Sunovion Pharmaceuticals 1
#19 Michael O'Connor Merlin Md Pte 1
#19 Douglas A. Ceckowski Illinois Tool Works 1
#19 Dale Meixelsperger Fenwal 1

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