Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Buffalo Grove, IL ranks #704 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,788 patents from 836 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Buffalo Grove, IL include Motorola, Here Global B.V., Uop. That works out to 110.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 836 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael D. Kotzin Motorola 132
2 Jingwei Xu Here Global B.V. 72
3 Amitava Ghosh Motorola 62
3 Jeffery C. Bricker Uop 62
#5 Xiaolan Wang Toshiba Medical Systems 59
#6 Bei Yin Dow Global Technologies 55
#7 Yan Zhang Zebra Technologies 52
#8 Troy W. Livingston Capital Security Systems 48
#9 Eugene Visotsky Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy 47
#10 Maureen L. Bricker Uop 45
#11 Oleg Los Nucurrent 44
#12 Colin B. Willmott The Chamberlain Group 40
#13 Amitabha Ghosh Motorola Mobility 39
#14 Yuda Luz Motorola 36
#15 David W. Stowe Aster Co. 35
#16 Phillip D. Rasky Motorola 33
#17 Harsha Hegde IBM 32
#18 Alex Averbuch Here Global B.V. 31
#18 Roger Nosal G.D. Searle 31
#18 Nancy M. Gray Sepracor 31
#18 Yi-Yin Ku Abbott 31
#18 Michael Aaron Cohen Belwith Products 31
#23 Jayant K. Gorawara Uop 30
#23 Ezzat A. Dabbish Motorola 30
#23 Richard Lewis Zenith Electronics 30
#26 Cheng-Le Zhao Basf Se 29
#26 Jay Jayapalan Motorola 29
#28 Ira R. Katz Hartmann Luggage 28
#28 Louis J. Lundell Motorola 28
#28 Anilkumar Ganapati Gaonkar Kraft Foods Holdings 28
#28 Thomas C. Stoneberg Courtesy 28
#28 Xiangdong Xu Pharmacia 28
#33 Yishen Sun Futurewei Technologies 27
#34 Alberto C. Savage Medline Industries, Lp 26
#34 Bill Myers Isco International 26
#34 Bala N. Devisetty Valent Biosciences 26
#34 James J. GU Fluid Handling 26
#34 Huaqing Liu Abbott 26
#34 Miesher Rodrigues Siemens Medical Solutions Usa 26
#40 Craig Sandford Fenwal 25
#40 Depeng Bi Nec 25
#40 Yingchun Xu Utstarcom 25
#40 Brent Peterson Echo Incorporated 25
#44 Gary R. Weiss Motorola 24
#44 Kathy Wang Gogo 24
#44 Uri Baniel Tekelec 24
#44 Mark D. Hansen Allstate Insurance 24
#48 Jens Mogard Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. 23
#48 Guang-Xue Wei Avery Dennison 23
#50 Scot W. Salzman Bally Gaming 21

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