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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Aachen, DE ranks #5,354 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 486 patents from 23 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Aachen, DE include Philips, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Ericsson.

Showing 1–23 of 23 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Peter Josef Schmidt Philips 114
2 Thomas Hantschel Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 60
3 Junaid Ansari Ericsson 35
#4 Thomas Falck Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 32
#5 Marc Wimmershoff Zoox 25
#5 Saul Sanz Rodriguez Alfred E. Mann Foundation For Scientific Research 25
#7 Ralph Hubert Peters Philips 23
#8 Georg Heigold Google 20
#8 Danielle Russell Chamberlin Lumileds 20
#10 Lukas Kuepper Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 19
#11 Christopher P. Price Biomarin Pharmaceutical 14
#11 Eric Thelen Philips 14
#13 Thomas Skyler Sartorius Skydio 13
#14 Mohit Dhawan Spectra Logic 11
#15 Dhruv Gupta AT&T 10
#16 Christoph Kubisch NVIDIA 9
#17 Stephan Baucke Ericsson 8
#18 Stefan Besling Philips 7
#18 Hans Cramer H. Krantz Gmbh & 7
#18 Thomas Luce Philips 7
#21 Henning Brandes Ericsson 5
#22 Michael Emonts Sony 4
#22 Jelena Mirkovic Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 4

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