Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Champaign, IL ranks #431 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 7,429 patents from 1,105 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Champaign, IL include Capital One Services, The Libman, Sru Biosystems. That works out to 84.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,105 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jeremy Goodsitt Capital One Services 646
2 Vincent Pham Capital One Services 416
3 Anh Truong Capital One Services 375
#4 Reza Farivar Capital One Services 293
#5 Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad 186
#6 Robert J. Libman The Libman 153
#7 Kenneth Taylor Capital One Services 114
#8 Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad 110
#9 Brian T. Cunningham Sru Biosystems 96
#10 J. Gary Eden University Of Illinois 68
#11 Rashid Bashir National Semiconductor 63
#12 Robert Lee Segebart Pioneer (Corteva) 60
#13 Eric Williams C.H.&I. Technologies 59
#13 Paul J. Hergenrother University Of Illinois 59
#15 Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Alpha 56
#16 Jennifer Ann Tarter Pioneer (Corteva) 54
#17 Ralph G. Nuzzo University Of Illinois 50
#18 Jianjun Cheng University Of Illinois 48
#19 Paul M. Petersen Intel 46
#19 Allie K. Watfa Yahoo Assets 46
#21 Kenneth L. Rinehart University Of Illinois 45
#22 Aaron Libman The Libman 44
#23 Milton Feng University Of Illinois 43
#24 Andrew D. Libman The Libman 41
#24 Philip T. Krein University Of Illinois 41
#26 Martin D. Burke University Of Illinois 39
#27 Stephen A. Boppart University Of Illinois 38
#27 Scott R. White University Of Illinois 38
#29 Jennifer Ann Steinke Pioneer (Corteva) 37
#30 Nancy R. Sottos University Of Illinois 36
#31 Constantine Polychronopoulos Broadcom 34
#32 Everette C. Burdette Acoustic Medsystems 32
#33 Joseph M. Crowley Xerox 29
#33 Robert Kidd Broadcom 29
#33 Kenneth S. Suslick University Of Illinois 29
#36 James H. Morrissey University Of Illinois 28
#37 Deepak Vasisht Microsoft 27
#38 Jing Jiang IBM 26
#39 Can Bayram IBM 25
#39 John W. Boettcher Eastman Kodak 25
#39 Dae-Hyeong Kim University Of Illinois 25
#42 David F. Lahrman Lsp Technologies 24
#42 Charles Abbas Archer-Daniels-Midland 24
#42 Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran GE 24
#45 Sung-Mo Kang University of California 23
#45 Gabriel Popescu University Of Illinois 23
#47 Pramod Viswanath Qualcomm 22
#47 David M. Kranz 22
#47 Huimin Zhao University Of Illinois 22
#47 Arch D. Robison Intel 22

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