Illinois — Patent Inventors 2021

Top Cities in Illinois 2021

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Chicago, IL	3,265	1,816
#2	Haifa, IL	1,222	660
#3	Bloomington, IL	775	225
#4	Champaign, IL	626	179
#5	Naperville, IL	518	316
#6	Evanston, IL	389	232
#7	Ramat Gan, IL	342	203
#8	Raanana, IL	306	166
#9	Peoria, IL	300	186
#10	Urbana, IL	252	141
#11	Normal, IL	251	75
#12	Palatine, IL	244	102
#13	Arlington Heights, IL	226	135
#14	Beijing, IL	215	57
#15	Lake Forest, IL	208	51
#16	Libertyville, IL	198	105
#17	Northbrook, IL	195	85
#18	Buffalo Grove, IL	184	103
#19	Glenview, IL	181	103
#20	Schaumburg, IL	176	110
#21	Aurora, IL	174	111
#22	Des Plaines, IL	162	92
#23	Seoul, IL	159	33
#24	Hoffman Estates, IL	159	84
#25	Crystal Lake, IL	158	72

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Richard P. Howarth	Lake Forest	Apple	132
2	Austin Walters	Savoy	Capital One Services	91
3	Jeremy Goodsitt	Champaign	Capital One Services	89
#4	Fan Zhang	Lake Barrington	Sk Hynix	73
#5	Vincent Pham	Champaign	Capital One Services	66
#6	Anh Truong	Champaign	Capital One Services	52
#7	Reza Farivar	Champaign	Capital One Services	50
#8	Vijay Nangia	Woodridge	Motorola Mobility	42
#9	Ravi Kuchibhotla	Chicago	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	38
#10	Yufei Blankenship	Kildeer	Ericsson	37
#10	Mark Watson	Urbana	Capital One Services	37
#12	Hyejung Jung	Northbrook	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	34
#13	Rachid M. Alameh	Crystal Lake	Motorola Mobility	33
#14	Mehul Desai	Oak Brook	Strong Force Iot Portfolio 2016	32
#15	Gregory Hayward	Bloomington	State Farm	31
#16	Wesley B. Leggette	Chicago	IBM	30
#16	Manish Motwani	Chicago	IBM	30
#18	Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad	Champaign	—	28
#18	Ilya Volvovski	Chicago	IBM	28
#20	Greg R. Dhuse	Chicago	IBM	25
#21	Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad	Champaign	—	24
#21	Kristopher Keith Gaudin	Bloomington	State Farm	24
#23	Gary W. Grube	Barrington Hills	Cleversafe	23
#23	Brian Mark Fields	Normal	State Farm	23
#23	Aaron Scott Chan	Lisle	State Farm	23