Top Inventors in Appleton, WI — 2025

Appleton, WI ranks #550 worldwide for total patents filed in 2025, with 230 patents from 127 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Appleton, WI include Illinois Tool Works, Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Oshkosh. That works out to 3.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 127 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Shuang Liu	Illinois Tool Works	8
2	Craig Steven Knoener	Illinois Tool Works	6
2	Andrew J. Henry	Illinois Tool Works	6
2	Antonio J. Carrillo Ojeda	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	6
2	Mark M. Mleziva	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	6
2	Jian Qin	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	6
#7	Vasily A. Topolkaraev	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	5
#7	Mark William Sachs	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	5
#7	Jake Zwayer	Illinois Tool Works	5
#10	Anthony Van Bergen Salsich	Illinois Tool Works	4
#10	Jason Daniel Hanke	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	4
#10	Seth Newlin	Oshkosh	4
#10	Thomas J. Daul	Gpcp Ip Holdings	4
#14	Alex N. Kuffel	C3	3
#14	Tonya CHARLES	Qnovia	3
#14	James Lee Uecker	Illinois Tool Works	3
#14	Daniel J. Drusch	Apple	3
#14	Michael V. Hoeger	Illinois Tool Works	3
#14	Olivia Arreola	Illinois Tool Works	3
#14	Maxwell Bode Brock	Illinois Tool Works	3
#14	Presley Genevie Neuman	The Procter & Gamble	3
#14	Michael J. Holeton	Oshkosh	3
#14	David Kay	Oshkosh	3
#14	Brian J. Bornemann	Illinois Tool Works	3
#14	Joseph E. Pierce	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	3
#26	Patrick D. Martin	Oshkosh	2
#26	Cody J. Bowman	Illinois Tool Works	2
#26	David John Paulson	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	2
#26	Joe Phaneuf	—	2
#26	Kevin M. Holtman	Gpcp Ip Holdings	2
#26	WanDuk Lee	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	2
#26	Nickolas Barnes	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	2
#26	Christopher Hsu	Illinois Tool Works	2
#26	Connor Denis Uitenbroek	Illinois Tool Works	2
#26	Kevin L. Parsons	NVIDIA	2
#26	Veronika Pashkina	Illinois Tool Works	2
#26	Paul Verhagen	Illinois Tool Works	2
#26	Peiguang Zhou	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	2
#26	Jonathan A. Baker	Battelle Savannah River Alliance	2
#26	Ben Wolfgram	Benshot	2
#26	Jason J. Zuleger	Oshkosh Defense	2
#26	Kyle Andrew Pfeifer	Illinois Tool Works	2
#26	David F. Bishop	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	2
#26	Daniel E. Miller	Gpcp Ip Holdings	2
#26	Jon P. Vanderpas	Rockwell Automation	2
#26	Todd Earl Holverson	Illinois Tool Works	2
#26	Chris J. Roehl	Illinois Tool Works	2
#26	Richmond R. Cohen	Becton, Dickinson And	2
#49	Brandon Mark Hokanson	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	1
#49	Brennen Snow	—	1

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