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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Palatine, IL ranks #568 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 244 patents from 102 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Palatine, IL include Motorola, Futurewei Technologies, Allstate Insurance. That works out to 3.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 102 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Brian Classon Motorola 14
2 Jialing Liu Futurewei Technologies 11
2 Surender Kumar Allstate Insurance 11
2 Jonathan Chee Yeen Chong Elkay Manufacturing 11
#5 Max R. Sawa Milwaukee Electric Tool 9
#5 Vipul Desai Futurewei Technologies 9
#7 Palani Sakthi IBM 7
#7 Francis Arnold Grever Steelseries Aps 7
#7 Taylor James Hall Nomis 7
#10 Stanley J. Frey Uop 6
#11 Mohammed Abdul-Gaffoor Motorola Mobility 5
#11 Richard Bauer Prince Castle 5
#11 Ying Z. Guo IBM 5
#11 Jeremy Rubens Robert Bosch Gmbh 5
#11 Alan M. Frazier IBM 5
#16 Gary M. Bold Littelfuse 4
#16 James C. Duran 4
#16 Yongsoo Chung The Quaker Oats 4
#19 Karl Olaf Knutson Entigenlogic 3
#19 Jessy Thomas Entigenlogic 3
#19 Hugh K. Smith Motorola Mobility 3
#19 Timothy A. Thomas Motorola 3
#19 Kevin J. O'Connell Symbol Technologies 3
#19 Brian M. McMahon Regalo International 3
#19 Venugopal Vasudevan Arris Enterprises 3
#19 Jayesh K Shah 3
#19 James H. Barber Motorola 3
#28 Nikhil Marathe AT&T 2
#28 Phillip F. Daly Uop 2
#28 David Grant Cason Shure Acquisition Holdings 2
#28 Sen Yang Motorola Mobility 2
#28 Richard C. Carlson Metrom Rail 2
#28 Prashant Kumar Microsoft 2
#28 Darcie Renee Callison Abl Ip Holding 2
#28 Jonathan Prendergast Fenwal 2
#28 Tess Dinterman Medline Industries, Lp 2
#28 Dadong Wan Accenture Global Services Limited 2
#28 Thomas E. Dudar Baxter International 2
#28 Eric Salinas Klein Tools 2
#28 Leigh M. Chinitz Motorola 2
#41 Steve John Glowacz 1
#41 Ying Liang Agency For Science, Technology And Research 1
#41 Richard E. Barnett Rangecast Technologies 1
#41 Scott A Fiedler Nanogas Technologies 1
#41 Bill Lathouris Culligan International 1
#41 Kelly Jensen Artventive Medical Group 1
#41 Umamaheshwar R. Uppada Allstate Insurance 1
#41 Doru Cristian Bucur AT&T 1
#41 Kirsten Marie Von Busch Experian Information Solutions 1
#41 Edward E. Pellegrini P&P Marketing 1

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