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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Normal, IL ranks #684 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 202 patents from 76 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Normal, IL include State Farm, Cknapp Sales, Caterpillar. That works out to 3.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 76 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Brian Mark Fields State Farm 23
2 William J. Leise State Farm 15
3 Ryan Michael Gross State Farm 8
#4 Steve Roberson State Farm 6
#4 Brandon Meyer Cknapp Sales 6
#4 Jeffrey S. Myers State Farm 6
#4 Leo Nelson Chan State Farm 6
#4 Mohamed A. Wazeer State Farm 6
#9 Edward P. Matesevac, III State Farm 5
#9 Terry Quakenbush State Farm 5
#9 Chien Che Huang State Farm 5
#9 Carol Marie Csanda State Farm 5
#9 David Turrentine State Farm 5
#14 Sunish Menon State Farm 4
#14 Amy Engelhorn State Farm 4
#14 Dingchao Zhang State Farm 4
#14 J. Lynn Wilson 4
#18 Jennifer L. Crawford State Farm 3
#18 Ronald R. Duehr State Farm 3
#18 Kim E. Flesher State Farm 3
#18 Anthony McCoy State Farm 3
#18 Mary Kay Mueller State Farm 3
#18 Nicholas R. Baker State Farm 3
#18 Stephen R. Prevatt State Farm 3
#18 Satya Naga Deepak Pillarisetti Caterpillar 3
#26 Bradley A. Craig State Farm 2
#26 Christopher L. Ward State Farm 2
#26 John Westhues State Farm 2
#26 Alexander Gataric State Farm 2
#26 Brad Sliz State Farm 2
#26 David Ruby State Farm 2
#26 Roger D. Schmidgall State Farm 2
#26 James M. Freeman 2
#26 Deanna L. Stockweather State Farm 2
#26 Scott R. Schuricht Caterpillar 2
#36 Lucas Wiechman State Farm 1
#36 Louis A. Littell State Farm 1
#36 Jared Paul Schaffer Cnh Industrial America 1
#36 Jeremy Carnahan State Farm 1
#36 Michael Stine McGraw State Farm 1
#36 Dustin Ryan Carter State Farm 1
#36 Adam Mattingly State Farm 1
#36 Shaktiraj Chauhan State Farm 1
#36 Joseph W. Norton State Farm 1
#36 Laura A. Uphoff State Farm 1
#36 Kalpana Aravabhumi State Farm 1
#36 Jeffrey M. Prall State Farm 1
#36 Thomas Michael Potter State Farm 1
#36 Andrew L Pearson State Farm 1
#36 Trishan Esram Solarbridge Technologies 1

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