Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Naperville, IL ranks #265 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 518 patents from 316 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Naperville, IL include Molex, Futurewei Technologies, IBM. That works out to 3.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 316 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael A. Bandura Molex 10
1 Philippe Sartori Futurewei Technologies 10
3 Graham J. Wills IBM 8
3 Sunil Chintakindi Allstate Insurance 8
#5 Yigang Cai Alcatel Lucent 7
#6 Anil U. Mane Uchicago Argonne 6
#7 Eric L. Sutton Oracle 5
#7 Shakeel Ur-Rehman Fairlife 5
#7 Peter E. Reed Nalco Chemical 5
#7 Mingli Wei Nalco Company 5
#7 Jeffrey Bull Wilton Industries 5
#7 Brian Gaza Uccellini 5
#7 Asimuddin Kazi IBM 5
#14 Kelly Douglas Quintessential Tots 4
#14 Augusto P. Panella Molex 4
#14 Richard C. Younce Tellabs Operations 4
#14 Anup Talukdar Nokia Technologies Oy 4
#14 Michael G. Borchardt The Glad Products 4
#14 Rajat Kapoor Suncoke Technology And Development 4
#14 Ruihua Zhang Huizhou Tcl Mobile Communication Co. 4
#14 Jasbir S. Gill Ecolab Usa 4
#14 Weiguo Cheng Ecolab Usa 4
#14 Daniel N.T. Hay Ecolab Usa 4
#24 Wenlong Che Motorola Mobility 3
#24 Lei Zhao Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co. 3
#24 Jeffery Miller Swift Fuels 3
#24 John R. Wilson Sloan Valve 3
#24 Sonal Patel L'Oreal 3
#24 Michael S. Haas S. C. Johnson & Son 3
#24 Michael G. Amaro Texas Instruments 3
#24 Jordan Ari Farber The Chamberlain Group 3
#24 Yuhong Fang Signify Holding B.V. 3
#24 Cary Michael Hayner Nanograf 3
#24 Frank J. Kozak Here Global B.V. 3
#24 Jeffrey Gross 3
#24 John F. Healey Illinois Tool Works 3
#24 Sankar Bhattacharja Nalco Company 3
#24 Konstantin Livanos Cisco 3
#24 Eric Steven Peyton Apple 3
#24 David L. Brunker Molex 3
#24 Dov Blitzer Suncast Technologies 3
#24 Alexander Dribinsky Psemi 3
#24 Russell T. Fling Rca 3
#44 William Justin Barbino 2
#44 Hongji Zhang National University Of Singapore 2
#44 Shigeng Li Xerox 2
#44 Ovidiu Gabriel Vlad Embedded Control Systems 2
#44 Mark A. Williamson Ge-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas 2
#44 Tony Dipaolo Rtc Industries 2
#44 Jung-Woo Seo Samsung 2

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