Top Cities in Illinois 2025

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 Chicago, IL 2,342 1,510
#2 Bloomington, IL 550 205
#3 Hod HaSharon, IL 412 152
#4 Champaign, IL 367 141
#5 Naperville, IL 349 218
#6 Evanston, IL 305 200
#7 Lake Forest, IL 207 32
#8 Beijing, IL 194 56
#9 Northbrook, IL 164 93
#10 Urbana, IL 163 97
#11 Normal, IL 160 70
#12 Palatine, IL 156 76
#13 Seoul, IL 138 26
#14 Glenview, IL 134 86
#15 Arlington Heights, IL 133 80
#16 Peoria, IL 130 91
#17 Lo Wu, IL 126 34
#18 Vernon Hills, IL 122 61
#19 Hoffman Estates, IL 119 55
#20 Schaumburg, IL 112 70
#21 Shanghai, IL 111 44
#22 Suneung-ri, IL 110 10
#23 Aurora, IL 107 65
#24 Buffalo Grove, IL 104 66
#25 Longbeilingcun, IL 99 30

Top Inventors in Illinois 2025

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Richard P. Howarth Lake Forest Apple 164
2 Jeremy Goodsitt Champaign Capital One Services 70
3 Austin Walters Savoy Capital One Services 69
#4 Gary W. Grube Barrington Hills Cleversafe 62
#5 Fan Zhang Lake Barrington Sk Hynix 46
#6 Vijay Nangia Woodridge Motorola Mobility 44
#6 Anh Truong Champaign Capital One Services 44
#8 Vincent Pham Champaign Capital One Services 38
#9 Galen Rafferty Mahomet Capital One Services 35
#10 Hyejung Jung Northbrook Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 31
#10 Mario Rosario Carlone, Jr. Princeton Pioneer (Corteva) 31
#10 Yufei Blankenship Kildeer Ericsson 31
#13 Ravi Kuchibhotla Chicago Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 28
#13 Nathan R. Vandike Geneseo John Deere 28
#15 Alberto Peralta Chicago Nucurrent 20
#16 Reza Farivar Champaign Capital One Services 19
#16 Nathan L. Tofte Bloomington State Farm 19
#16 Vicki King Bloomington State Farm 19
#19 John Donovan Bloomington State Farm 18
#19 Ryan Shook Loves Park Hamilton Sundstrand 18
#19 Joseph Robert Brannan Bloomington State Farm 18
#19 Greg R. Dhuse Chicago IBM 18
#23 Mark Watson Urbana Capital One Services 17
#24 Patrick Joseph Lucey Chicago Stats 16
#24 Brian Mark Fields Normal State Farm 16

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