Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wilmette, IL ranks #1,222 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 115 patents from 67 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wilmette, IL include University Of Illinois, Northwestern University, Hi. That works out to 4.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 67 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John A. Rogers University Of Illinois 16
2 Mark C. Hersam Northwestern University 8
2 Hooman Mohseni Hi 8
#4 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis Northwestern University 4
#5 Martin B. Linck Gas Technology Institute 3
#5 Andrew A. Cheng Fluid Handling 3
#5 Nathan C. Gianneschi University of California 3
#5 Michael C. Garrett Zoll Medical 3
#9 Buckley Crist Impossible Objects 2
#9 Irvin Ho Tempus Labs 2
#9 Frank C. Nicholas Dizpersion 2
#9 Nick Yang Nxp Usa 2
#9 Gokhan Barin Cyclopure 2
#9 Donald E. Godshaw Travel Caddy 2
#9 Charles Jeffrey Spencer Abl Ip Holding 2
#9 Ilya Mikhelson Northwestern University 2
#17 Joshua J. Jacobs Rush University Medical Center 1
#17 Andrew P. Studdert Miller Dowel 1
#17 Ludwig Bauer Daimler-Benz Ag 1
#17 Teepu Siddique Northwestern University 1
#17 Jack Callahan Chicago Mercantile Exchange 1
#17 Mark Jungwirth 1
#17 Jeffrey K Hardin Nanogas Technologies 1
#17 David Pozgay Robert Bosch Gmbh 1
#17 Daniel McCoy Hill-Rom Services 1
#17 Thomas J. Meade Caltech 1
#17 Huan Li Abb Vie 1
#17 Glen Ray Platner Crompton Ventures 1
#17 Geoffrey R. Myers, JR. Geneva Technologies 1
#17 Christopher Ainsley Shoppertrak Rct 1
#17 George T. Chiampas Northwestern University 1
#17 Jiaxing Huang Northwestern University 1
#17 Robert Alfred Blanford Crompton Ventures 1
#17 John Erik Pandolfino Northwestern University 1
#17 Jean Marie Delio 1
#17 Steven B. Philoon Uop 1
#17 Charles Foley Connor 1
#17 Krishnan Venkateswaran 1
#17 Dean Richardson Molex 1
#17 Bruce W. Wessels Northwestern University 1
#17 Subhash Desai G.D. Searle 1
#17 Thomas Allan Fitzgerald Crompton Ventures 1
#17 Marc Eric Hatton Crompton Ventures 1
#17 Tyler R. Koski Warsaw Orthopedic 1
#17 Pedram Khalili Amiri Northwestern University 1
#17 Andrew Gross Serta 1
#17 Thomas Baker Imove 1
#17 Shengxian Jia Northwestern University 1
#17 Cary Kochman 1
#17 Martin Donohue Walgreen 1

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