Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lenexa, KS ranks #2,047 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 65 patents from 38 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lenexa, KS include Zoll Medical, Garmin Switzerland Gmbh, Bnsf Railway. That works out to 1.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–38 of 38 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Frederick J. Geheb Zoll Medical 9
2 Christopher J. Hanshew Garmin Switzerland Gmbh 4
2 Paul K. Gabler Bnsf Railway 4
#4 Thomas N. Hilleary The Island Radar 2
#4 Melissa Frock Spinal Simplicity 2
#4 Billy G. McCracken, Jr. Sprint Communications 2
#4 Tianyu Lin Xiaomi 2
#4 Joshua David Suhr Cisco 2
#4 Austin W. Ahlgren Garmin Switzerland Gmbh 2
#4 Patrick F. Sullivan Comcast 2
#4 John B. Whiteside Garmin 2
#4 David Gast Unified Brands 2
#4 Tracy Hockenhull Enduralock 2
#4 Andrew Cook 2
#4 Devlin Leavitt Micron 2
#4 Warren V. Moore Enduralock 2
#17 Walter Riley Buchanan Fabtech 1
#17 Rob Alan Entzminger Rockwell Automation 1
#17 Dave Teeter Kustom Signals 1
#17 Gary Gressel AT&T 1
#17 Sean Campion Topcoder 1
#17 Haonan LI Sz Dji Technology Co. 1
#17 Karen Ramsey Oracle 1
#17 Mark A. Moore Sulzer Carbomedics 1
#17 Lance Thielen Southern Research Institute 1
#17 Angela Kathleen Primavera Vf Jeanswear Limited Partnership 1
#17 Stephen M. Pope Faultless Starch/Bon Ami 1
#17 Warren Page Kustom Signals 1
#17 Matthew R. Andrews Digital Ally 1
#17 Adam Frock Spinal Simplicity 1
#17 Caleb J. Herbst Garmin Switzerland Gmbh 1
#17 Evangelos V.A. Brisimitzakis Garmin Switzerland Gmbh 1
#17 Craig B. Schmidt Dornoch Medical Systems 1
#17 Subramaniam Vaidyanathan Intervet 1
#17 Robert M. Caplinger Rockwell Collins 1
#17 David M. Prueter Saint-Gobain Calmar 1
#17 Ted A. Teuscher Preco 1
#17 Jacob T. Bruce Garmin Switzerland Gmbh 1

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