Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bloomington, IN ranks #719 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,691 patents from 943 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bloomington, IN include Cook Medical Technologies, Cook Regentec, Tivo. That works out to 59.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 943 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Blayne A. Roeder Cook Medical Technologies 150
2 Thomas A. Osborne Cook Regentec 119
3 Darin Schaeffer Cook Medical Technologies 108
#4 Ram H. Paul Cook Medical Technologies 107
#5 Brian L. Bates Cook Regentec 70
#6 Brian Beach Tivo 68
#7 Jeremiah J. Willcock Micron 50
#8 Allen R. Siedle 3M 45
#9 Frank J. Fischer, Jr. Cook Medical Technologies 42
#10 Richard E. Wagner Corning Cable Systems 41
#10 Siddharth Vad Cook Medical Technologies 41
#10 William A. Cook Bite Tech 41
#13 Arman H. Valaie Cook Medical Technologies 40
#14 David L. Smiley Eli Lilly 39
#15 James A. Taylor Netapp 38
#16 Phanindra V. Garimella Cummins 37
#16 David G. Burton Cook Medical Technologies 37
#16 Thomas P. Clement Mectra Labs 37
#19 Scott E. Boatman Cook Medical Technologies 36
#19 Andrew K. Hoffa Cook Medical Technologies 36
#21 John R. LeBlanc 33
#21 Arthur Bradley Coopervision International Limited 33
#23 James P. Reilly Liberty Evans 31
#23 William W. Turner, Jr. Eli Lilly 31
#25 Jack A. Jones Caltech 30
#26 Jeffrey W. Zerfas Boston Scientific Scimed 29
#26 Martin F. Jarrold Trustees Of Indiana University 29
#28 Michael W. Hardert Cook Medical Technologies 27
#28 Michael P. DeBruyne Cook Regentec 27
#28 Eric Scheid US Air Force 27
#31 David Christian Lentz Cook Medical Technologies 26
#32 Grant T. Hoffman Cook Medical Technologies 25
#32 David E. Clemmer Indiana University Research And Technology 25
#32 Michael Tidwell University Of Washington 25
#35 David A. Drewes, Jr. Cook Medical Technologies 23
#36 Kun Duan Snap 22
#36 Stephen C. Jacobson Ut-Battelle 22
#36 Mark R. Frye Cook Medical Technologies 22
#36 William F. Moore Cook Medical Technologies 22
#40 Melvin M. Miller Channel-Kor System 21
#40 Adam Duncan US Air Force 21
#42 Thomas W. McGhie Cook Medical Technologies 20
#42 James Stewart US Air Force 20
#42 William Neal House Harman International Industries, Incorporated 20
#42 Cleon Stanley Cook Medical Technologies 20
#46 Dale Dellacqua Del Palma Orthopedics 19
#46 Jeffrey M. Snow US Air Force 19
#46 Shyam Kuppurathanam Cook Medical Technologies 19
#49 Andrew Lumsdaine Adobe 18
#49 Sundeep Kankanala Becton, Dickinson And 18

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