Top Inventors in Ames, IA | Patent Leaderboard

Ames, IA ranks #550 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,181 patents from 1,427 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ames, IA include Monsanto Technology, GE, AMD. That works out to 93.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,427 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Jennifer R. Hicks	Monsanto Technology	77
2	Thomas P. Jury	Monsanto Technology	70
3	Xiaolei Shi	GE	64
#4	Charles W. Boecker	AMD	58
#5	Iver E. Anderson	Iowa State University	57
#6	Leland Swanson	Texas Instruments	52
#7	Anthony Revis	Dow Corning	45
#8	Kevin W. Matson	Asgrow Seed Company	44
#9	Eric Martin Vaughn	BOE	43
#10	Michael B. Roof	BOE	41
#10	Robert Long	Composite Technologies	41
#12	Eric W. Cochran	Iowa State University	39
#13	Robert A. Bannister	Cummins Filtration Ip	38
#14	Keith Bilyeu	Syngenta Participations Ag	37
#15	Frederic W. Pollman	Sauer-Danfoss	36
#15	Richard Wallingford	Kla-Tencor	36
#17	Bruce Held	Stine Biotechnology	34
#18	Jason Chen	Iowa State University	33
#18	Yasufumi Yamamoto	Canon	33
#18	Nacu Hernandez	Iowa State University	33
#18	Arthur V. Pohm	Nve	33
#18	Jeffrey S. Wigdahl	John Deere	33
#23	Earl G. Hammond	Iowa State University	32
#24	JENNIFER KARA BARRY	Pioneer (Corteva)	31
#24	Robert C. Brown	Iowa State University	31
#24	Sam Eathington	Monsanto Technology	31
#24	Grant T. MacDonald	Cnh Industrial America	31
#28	David J. Peterson	Pioneer (Corteva)	30
#29	George A. Kraus	Iowa State University	29
#30	William Prindle	Robinson Knife Manufacturing Co.	28
#31	Qi Chen	E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And	27
#32	Ronald Christopher Williams	Iowa State University	26
#32	David C. Jiles	Iowa State University	26
#34	Ahmet Celikkaya	3M	25
#34	Walter R. Fehr	Iowa State University	25
#34	Vitalij K. Pecharsky	Iowa State University	25
#34	Travis Smith	Workiva	25
#38	Xinwei Wang	Qualcomm	24
#38	Sanjeev Kumar	Newlink Genetics	24
#38	Richard C. Larock	Iowa State University	24
#41	Yongsheng Chen	Neurocrine Biosciences	23
#42	John C. McKew	Pfizer	22
#42	Robert L. Terpstra	Iowa State University	22
#42	Joseph J. Hanak	Energy Conversion Devices	22
#42	Qingbo Li	Spectrumedix	22
#46	Aditya Ramamoorthy	Disney	21
#46	Mihail Sigalas	Agilent Technologies	21
#46	Jun Cui	Battelle Memorial Institute	21
#46	Brian W. Carr	Gary W. Clem	21
#50	Peter Keeling	Basf Plant Science Company Gmbh	20

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