Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Leuven, BE ranks #776 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 186 patents from 124 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Leuven, BE include Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Nxp B.V., Sandisk Technologies.

Showing 1–50 of 124 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Dorothée Alice Marie-Eve Bardiot Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 6
1 Sujan Pandey Nxp B.V. 6
3 Chen Wu Sandisk Technologies 4
3 Anabela Veloso Imec Vzw 4
3 Mirco Cantoro Samsung 4
3 Wonjong Kim Samsung 4
3 Shu-Hao Chang TSMC 4
#8 Andrea Illiberi Asm Ip Holding B.V. 3
#8 Trong Huynh Bao Imec Vzw 3
#8 Stijn Vandekerckhove Anheuser-Busch Inbev S.A. 3
#8 Werner Knaepen Asm Ip Holding B.V. 3
#8 Geert Van der Plas Imec Vzw 3
#8 Gouri Sankar Kar Imec Vzw 3
#8 Marina Timmermans Imec Vzw 3
#15 Yves Vanderveken Solvay (Société Anonyme) 2
#15 Ilde Rosa LORATO Stichting Imec Nederland 2
#15 Harald Profijt Asm Ip Holding B.V. 2
#15 Henricus Philipsen Imec Vzw 2
#15 Niina Veitonmaki Alligator Bioscience Ab 2
#15 Haifeng Yuan Citic Dicastal Co. 2
#15 Tim Stakenborg Imec Vzw 2
#15 Naoto Horiguchi Imec Vzw 2
#15 Zsolt Tokei Imec Vzw 2
#15 Kevin Verstrepen Vib Vzw 2
#15 Vladimir Machkaoutsan Qualcomm 2
#15 Yangyin Chen Sandisk Technologies 2
#15 Roel Gronheid Imec Vzw 2
#15 Cedric Huyghebaert Imec Vzw 2
#15 Aysajan Abidin Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 2
#15 Roelof Jansen Imec Vzw 2
#15 Niamh Waldron Imec Vzw 2
#15 Bartlomiej Jan Pawlak Globalfoundries 2
#15 Magdalena Kaniewska Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 2
#15 Stefan Cosemans Imec Vzw 2
#15 Veronique Rochus Imec Vzw 2
#15 Maria Jesus Recaman Payo Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 2
#15 Rudy Musschebroeck Commscope Technologies 2
#38 Antonio Mani Kla-Tencor 1
#38 Yuandong Li Imec Vzw 1
#38 Tatjana Parac-Vogt Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 1
#38 Enrique Argones Rua Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 1
#38 Linkun Wu Imec Vzw 1
#38 Christian Steuwe Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 1
#38 Bram Cornelis Siemens Industry Software 1
#38 Viet Nguyen Hoang Nxp B.V. 1
#38 Rose Goodchild Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Ku Leuven R&D 1
#38 Rami Khazaka Asm Ip Holding B.V. 1
#38 Koen Cornelissens Huawei 1
#38 Frederik Jan Rita Rombouts Johnson & Johnson 1
#38 Thomas Jacobsen Hyloris Pharmaceuticals Sa 1