Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Peoria, IL ranks #471 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 300 patents from 186 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Peoria, IL include Caterpillar, Natural Fiber Welding, Amazon. That works out to 2.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 186 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Nathan Bjerke Caterpillar 12
2 David Bruno Parzynski, Jr. Caterpillar 9
3 Javier A. Rodriguez Caterpillar 7
#4 Jonathan W. Anders Caterpillar 5
#4 Sylvain J. Charbonnel Caterpillar 5
#4 Luke Michael Haverhals Natural Fiber Welding 5
#4 Bobby John Caterpillar 5
#4 Aaron Michael Brown Amazon 5
#9 Ronald Silver Caterpillar 4
#9 Suresh Baddam Reddy Caterpillar 4
#9 Cory A. Brown Caterpillar 4
#9 Kenth I. Svensson Caterpillar 4
#9 Aaron Kenneth Amstutz Natural Fiber Welding 4
#9 Michael Bardell Caterpillar 4
#9 David M. Ginter Caterpillar 4
#9 Randall T. Anderson Caterpillar 4
#17 Paul Wang Caterpillar 3
#17 Wilce Damion Williams Caterpillar 3
#17 Rodney Menold Caterpillar 3
#17 Corey Lee Gorman Caterpillar 3
#17 Patrick J. Seiler Caterpillar 3
#17 Kyle Scholl Fhe Usa 3
#17 Charles F. Coffey Caterpillar 3
#24 Nolan A. Graves Caterpillar 2
#24 Michael Molter Natural Fiber Welding 2
#24 Brian Lough Fmr 2
#24 Spencer Jacob Null Natural Fiber Welding 2
#24 Michael Stephen Galat Caterpillar 2
#24 Paul Prest Caterpillar 2
#24 Thomas John Yaniak Caterpillar 2
#24 Gaurav Vasudeva Caterpillar 2
#24 Pradipkumar J. Tanpure John Deere 2
#24 Hind Abi-Akar Caterpillar 2
#24 Connor J. Haas Caterpillar 2
#24 Jay Roplekar Caterpillar 2
#24 Arvind Sivasubramanian Caterpillar 2
#24 Shivangi Wagle Caterpillar 2
#24 Jonglak Choi Natural Fiber Welding 2
#24 Vincent Neyens Caterpillar 2
#24 Justin Dale Middleton Caterpillar 2
#24 Temitope Olayemi Akinlua Caterpillar 2
#24 Matthew T. Wolk Caterpillar 2
#24 Matthew M. Robinson Caterpillar 2
#24 Seshadri Guha Tada Cognitive Solutions 2
#24 Subbarao Turlapati Tada Cognitive Solutions 2
#24 John M. Spangler Caterpillar 2
#24 Y. T. Bui Caterpillar 2
#24 James Michael Thorne Caterpillar 2
#24 Xiling Tang Natural Fiber Welding 2
#24 Christopher Lusardi Caterpillar 2

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