Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bellefonte, PA ranks #4,205 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 670 patents from 143 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bellefonte, PA include Garden Genetics, Restek, Adhesives Research. That works out to 109.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 143 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael S. Uchneat Garden Genetics 56
2 Thomas E. Kane Restek 32
3 Michael J. Zajaczkowski Adhesives Research 28
#4 Mark W. McBride Penn State 26
#5 Maureen L. Mulvihill Actuated Medical 25
#6 Steven E. Owens Fbs 24
#7 Brian M. Park Actuated Medical 23
#7 Sei-Joo Jang Penn State 23
#9 Roger B. Bagwell Actuated Medical 22
#10 Thomas E. Bachner, Jr. Second Chance Body Armor 20
#11 Michael Zajaczkowski Avery Dennison 19
#11 Taryn S. Seitzinger First Quality Tissue 19
#13 David A. SMITH Silcotek 17
#14 Eric Tritsch Playworld Systems 16
#15 Brian A. Jones Restek 14
#16 William A. Gettig Gettig Technologies 13
#17 Brian C. Zellers Novasentis 11
#18 John Michael Cuffe GE 9
#18 Robert Davis Tetra Technologies 9
#20 Donald E. Jefferson Unknown 7
#20 Aaron Dale Hunt Agjunction 7
#20 Rick Conklin Extenet Systems 7
#20 Larry E. Shook Gettig Technologies 7
#20 Brandon Howard Robson Dionex 7
#25 Randy L. Smith Henkel Limited 6
#25 Pierluigi Cappellini First Quality Baby Products 6
#27 David Rosenblitt 5
#27 James J. Ash Chemcut Holdings 5
#27 Joseph Walsh 5
#27 Gary S. Settles Penn State 5
#27 Cole Woolley Young Living Essential Oils, Lc 5
#27 German A. Gomez-Rios Restek 5
#27 Kevin Guigley 5
#34 Richard D. Prewitt, Jr. IBM 4
#34 Christopher M. Linton Sigma-Aldrich Co. 4
#34 Shoko Yoshikawa The Pennsylvania Research Foundation 4
#34 Tracey A. Peters Restek 4
#34 Joseph W. McCulloch Paradyne 4
#34 William Curran Penn State 4
#40 Michael A. GOSS Restek 3
#40 James Arthur Burtoft Imperva 3
#40 Joseph E. Tomasko Permagrain Products 3
#40 Baily Thomas 3
#40 Oleh Y. Borbulevych 3
#40 Maurice M. Sevik US Air Force 3
#40 Anirudh Srikant Iyengar University Of South Florida 3
#40 Kevin Arnold Hexacomb 3
#40 G. Allen Blakeslee Atotech Usa 3
#40 Robert Ritter Disney 3
#40 Kevin Walker Rolls-Royce Plc 3

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