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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Avenel, NJ ranks #12,052 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 151 patents from 48 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Avenel, NJ include Merck, General Housewares, Google. That works out to 8.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–48 of 48 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ashwin U. Rao Merck 19
2 Melvin L. Levinson General Housewares 17
3 Rajan Patel Google 12
#4 Ronald B. Dana Oilmatic Systems 7
#4 Shareq Rahman Brooktree Broadband Holding 7
#4 Deepak Duggal Air Cruisers Company 7
#4 John Walsh Venantius Limited 7
#8 Frank Pagano Hoechst Celanese 5
#8 Balbir S. Bhogal A. H. Robins Company, Incorporated 5
#10 Ajay Upadhyay Netflix 4
#10 Girija S. Chaubey Nanotech Industrial Solutions 4
#12 Vincent F. Rotella 3
#12 Enrico Autovino 3
#12 David S. Rosen M&T Chemicals 3
#12 Lin-Lin Shiao Merck 3
#12 Jose Fernandes Rutgers, The State University 3
#12 Chester A. Lindros, Jr. 3
#18 Krishna C Palavarapu 2
#18 Joseph Andrew Foldhazy Arteva North America S.A.R.L. 2
#18 Cheryl DeRiso Merck 2
#18 Vanita Srinivasan S.S. Steiner 2
#18 Bret Schweid Colgate-Palmolive 2
#18 Milena Kudziela Basf Se 2
#18 Ted Andre Lucquito Gerard Unknown 2
#18 Nicholas A. Giorgio Hoffmann-La Roche 2
#26 Nithin Maruthi Prasad Nb Ventures 1
#26 Himali Patel AT&T 1
#26 Amy Graham Merck 1
#26 Mitchell D. Feather AT&T 1
#26 Mel Merciadez Mcneil-Ppc 1
#26 Mick Swanborough L'Oreal 1
#26 Kathleen Cole Thomas 1
#26 Abdul R. Shareef 1
#26 James Jelinski 1
#26 Soundararajan Regunathan Cornell Research Foundation 1
#26 Robert H. Gunn 1
#26 Craig P. Baskin US Dept of Health & Human Services 1
#26 Sheilisa McNeal-Burgess 1
#26 Carmine P. Salerno Rca 1
#26 Boleslaw Czabai Oxford Superconducting Technology 1
#26 Bhardwaj Budhram 1
#26 Nilo R. Filidei 1
#26 Fred E. Mensi 1
#26 Sajjad A. Qureshi Merck 1
#26 Yanko Chen 1
#26 Nipul Ghanshyambhai Patel Ferring B.V. 1
#26 Shardendu K. Singh Aerofarms 1
#26 Iffra Mehek Pathan 1

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