Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lafayette, IN ranks #886 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 155 patents from 95 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lafayette, IN include Ambilight, Nucurrent, Ohio State University. That works out to 2.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 95 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Wenting Wu Ambilight 8
2 Andrew Kovacs Nucurrent 7
3 Kenneth H. Sandhage Ohio State University 4
3 Kevin Wilger Cook Medical Technologies 4
3 Mark Lundstrom Bioscale 4
3 Viorel Petrariu Caterpillar 4
#7 Livia Schiavinato Eberlin Purdue Research Foundation 3
#7 David Schamber Landis+Gyr Ag 3
#7 Travis L. Houston Global Blood Therapeutics 3
#7 Xiaohui Xu Purdue Research Foundation 3
#7 William Hillery Nokia Technologies Oy 3
#7 Min Wu Wuyi University 3
#7 Scott A. Storz Wabash National 3
#7 Xuan Li Dr. Ing. H.C. F. Porsche Ag 3
#7 Andrzej Wylezinski Wabash National 3
#7 Doug Busekrus Landis+Gyr Innovations 3
#17 Shelley A. Claridge Purdue Research Foundation 2
#17 Alan Keith Jarmusch Purdue Research Foundation 2
#17 Jack Williams Purdue Research Foundation 2
#17 Sarah Robbins Muffin Incorporated 2
#17 Rebecca Kramer Bottiglio Purdue Research Foundation 2
#17 Saira Samar Malik Micron 2
#17 Thomas P. Hicks Steiner Enterprises 2
#17 Ivan Novikov Purdue Research Foundation 2
#17 Daniel Pederson Purdue Research Foundation 2
#17 John Blichmann Caterpillar 2
#17 Tyler Anthony Novak Purdue Research Foundation 2
#17 Cory-Khoi Quang Nguyen Crowdstrike 2
#17 Gregory M. Shaver Purdue Research Foundation 2
#17 Jeff Howard Caterpillar 2
#17 Ryan Tyler Hilger Purdue Research Foundation 2
#32 Matthew E. Poulsen Caterpillar 1
#32 Lisa Michelle Grove Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals 1
#32 Robert Byron Pipes Purdue Research Foundation 1
#32 Matthew V. Stonebraker, Jr. 3M 1
#32 Siva Chaitanya CHADUVULA Purdue Research Foundation 1
#32 Vojtech Krs Adobe 1
#32 Jason Hoag Engineering Innovations 1
#32 Adam Joseph Clute Caterpillar 1
#32 Min Ku Kim Purdue Research Foundation 1
#32 Mukerrem Cakmak The University Of Akron 1
#32 Abhinav Goel Qualcomm 1
#32 Joseph V. Pejril Caterpillar 1
#32 Evan L. Breedlove 3M 1
#32 Ananya Ipsita Purdue Research Foundation 1
#32 Elizabeth M. Murphy Topp Purdue Research Foundation 1
#32 Hillary Andaluz Purdue Research Foundation 1
#32 Kyle Robert Brewer Caterpillar 1
#32 Rusi P. Taleyarkhan Westinghouse Electric 1
#32 Joseph P. Joyce Polymer Technology Systems 1

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