Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bethlehem, PA ranks #535 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,313 patents from 1,038 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bethlehem, PA include Columbia Insurance, Seagate Technology, Lutron Technology Company. That works out to 83.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,038 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Thomas E. McClaskie Columbia Insurance 386
2 Erich F. Haratsch Seagate Technology 222
3 Brad Michael Kreschollek Lutron Technology Company 204
#4 James D. Ralph Spinecore 163
#5 Mark A. Webster Cisco 128
#6 Gamini Ananda Vedage Air Products And Chemicals 73
#7 David W. Peters Monsanto Technology 64
#8 Frank H. Levinson Finisar 63
#8 Sean Tucker Lutron Technology Company 63
#10 Warren A. Seith Ingersoll-Rand 61
#10 Ernest Eisenhardt Bergmann AT&T 61
#12 Kenneth C. Raines B.Braun Medical 59
#13 William F. Burgoyne, Jr. Delsper Lp 58
#14 Justin Lawyer Ecotech 57
#15 Brian Michael Courtney Lutron Technology Company 52
#15 Thomas E. Grebs Fairchild Semiconductor 52
#15 Rhodes B. Baker Lutron Technology Company 52
#18 William Bryce Fricke Lutron Technology Company 44
#19 Irl E. Ward Ashland 43
#20 Joseph Perry Cohen Air Products And Chemicals 41
#20 Michael Reed Teradata Us 41
#22 Jordan H. Crafts Lutron Technology Company 40
#22 Jan Lipson Finisar 40
#24 David T. Davis Woodlark Circle 39
#25 William R. Haller Structural Services 38
#26 Charles R. Szmanda Shipley Company, L.L.C. 36
#26 John E. Dewhurst Air Products And Chemicals 36
#28 Steven Diamond Agamatrix 34
#28 Andrew J. Chosak Objectvideo 34
#28 John Schadt Lattice Semiconductor 34
#31 David D. Nguyen Western Digital Technologies 32
#31 Joseph Thomas Moll Crayola 32
#31 Carlos A. Cazanas Cellco Partnership 32
#34 William Harshbarger Applied Materials 31
#35 Michelle L. Greene Lutron Electronics Co. 30
#35 Rea Ann Silva Rea.Deeming Beauty 30
#37 Joel Bartholomew B.Braun Medical 29
#38 Michael O. Thompson Ultratech Stepper 28
#39 Jean Louise Vincent Air Products And Chemicals 27
#40 Matthew R. Zartman Lutron Technology Company 25
#41 Roland L. Ledyard Lutron Electronics Co. 24
#41 Rhythm Agarwal Lutron Technology Company 24
#43 Douglas Fornell Leavitt Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S. 23
#43 Ronald L. Freyman Agere Systems 23
#45 Mehmet Deniz Ertas ExxonMobil 22
#46 Faith McGary Grape Technology Group 21
#46 Ahmad Sith Victaulic 21
#46 John Richard Boylan International Paper 21
#46 Jason Christopher Bartoszek Ingersoll-Rand 21
#46 Mark Law Lutron Technology Company 21

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