Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bartlesville, OK ranks #572 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 242 patents from 100 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bartlesville, OK include Chevron, Schlumberger Technology, Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co.. That works out to 6.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 100 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Max P. McDaniel Chevron 21
2 Kathy S. Clear Chevron 13
3 Eric D. Schwerdtfeger Chevron 11
#4 Hualong Pan 10
#4 Jeremy M. Praetorius Chevron 10
#6 Qing Yang Chevron 8
#7 Youlu Yu Chevron 6
#7 Yongwoo Inn Chevron 6
#7 Jared L. Barr Chevron 6
#7 Kathy Woody 6
#7 Masud M. Monwar Chevron 6
#12 Taeshik Earmme 5
#12 Zhenhua Mao 5
#12 Jeffrey S. Fodor Chevron 5
#15 Riley B. Needham 3
#15 Kenneth M. Lassen Chevron 3
#15 Ashish M. Sukhadia Chevron 3
#15 Mitchell D. Refvik Chevron 3
#15 David Milton Eslinger Schlumberger Technology 3
#15 William C. Ellis Chevron 3
#15 Min Cheng 3
#15 James H. Hedges 3
#15 Faye L. Scully 3
#24 Jinping Zhou Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co. 2
#24 Marshall D. Bishop Phillips Petroleum 2
#24 Christopher J. LaFrancois 2
#24 David R. Zornes 2
#24 Graham R. Lief Chevron 2
#24 Kathy A. Repa 2
#24 Bruce B. Randolph Phillips Petroleum 2
#24 Neal D. McDaniel 2
#24 Dhananjay B. Ghonasgi 2
#24 Raymond Crow Abb Schweiz Ag 2
#24 Jay M. Chaffin Chevron 2
#24 Terry M. CHRISTIAN 2
#24 Wei Shang Phillips Petroleum 2
#24 Laura Nielsen 2
#24 Victoria Suding 2
#24 Corey W. Tropf 2
#24 Anthony O. Baldridge 2
#24 Kent E. Mitchell Phillips Petroleum 2
#24 Reed Eisenhart 2
#24 Benjamin J. Hertel John Deere 2
#44 Steven D. Bridges Chevron 1
#44 John R. Rathman Chevron 1
#44 Jeff S. Fodor Chevron 1
#44 Robert D. Still Phillips Petroleum 1
#44 James P. Johnson 1
#44 Dwayne B. Watt John Deere 1
#44 Don Christensen Honeywell 1

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