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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Avon, OH ranks #2,378 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,315 patents from 260 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Avon, OH include Rockwell Automation, Eveready Battery Company, American Greetings. That works out to 52.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 260 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Robert J. Herbst Rockwell Automation 50
2 Peter F. Hoffman Eveready Battery Company 41
3 Gary Nelson American Greetings 38
3 James A. Remington Cleveland Track Material 38
#5 Sharad Gaurav The Sherwin-Williams 33
#6 Jack W. Marple Eveready Battery Company 28
#6 Michael Lee High Gear Specialties 28
#6 Michael J. O'Donnell Beckett Gas 28
#9 Jason L. Stimits Intel 26
#9 Tonson Abraham Advanced Elastomer Systems 26
#9 Darryl J. Costin, Jr. Revolaze 26
#12 William P. Amato Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems 21
#13 Gregg M. Kloeppel Blue Sky Innovation Group 19
#13 Michael D. Tober Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems 19
#15 Gregory S. Kalata Swagelok 18
#16 Michael S. Didion Didion Manufacturing 17
#17 Thomas Loparo Nordson 16
#18 Melissa Flesher American Greetings 15
#18 Terry Hughes American Greetings 15
#18 David T. Wince Tipper Tie 15
#18 William D. Bowers Femtometrics 15
#22 Dennis R. Young Delta Systems 14
#22 Alison M. Norris Ppg Industries Ohio 14
#22 Mathew John Microsoft 14
#22 Edward James Balaschak GE 14
#22 Jack Chuang Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 14
#27 Randolph Bradshaw Bayer Healthcare 13
#27 Nianqing Zhou Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems 13
#29 Paul C. Niglas Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems 12
#29 William Plow Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems 12
#31 Philip Dennis Coleman Graftech International Holdings 11
#32 Heidi Carrion Shurtape Technologies 10
#32 Gary E. Johnston US Army 10
#32 James Hawley Manco 10
#35 Craig Shoemaker The Geon 9
#35 Jon D. Intagliata Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems 9
#35 Douglas E. Skillicorn 9
#35 Theodore Joseph Schmitz 9
#35 James J. Kasper Watteredge-Uniflex 9
#35 John F. Carlson Nordson 9
#35 John C. Reising Ppg Industries Ohio 9
#35 Kevin Nieman Capital One Services 9
#35 Douglas Wayne Mirth Brasscraft Manufacturing 9
#44 Andrew K. Marsden The Sherwin-Williams 8
#44 James Seaman Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake 8
#44 Kimberly Bikowski American Greetings 8
#44 James P. Polaniec Chiron Diagnostics 8
#44 Lawrence C. Greer, III NASA 8
#44 James Robert Buckett Case Western Reserve University 8
#44 Richard Shirey Donn Incorporated 8

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