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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Waterloo, NE ranks #7,105 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 13 patents from 6 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Waterloo, NE include Elemental Scientific, Syngenta Crop Protection Ag, Lindsay. That works out to 13.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–6 of 6 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jonathan Hein Elemental Scientific 4
2 Benjamin Ford Syngenta Crop Protection Ag 3
3 Matthew John Dudik Lindsay 2
3 Troy G. Hottovy Intrado 2
#5 Michael D. Hornbacher 1
#5 Amarnath Natarajan University Of Nebraska 1

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