Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Chicago, IL ranks #30 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 63,948 patents from 13,327 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Chicago, IL include IBM, Lenovo (Singapore) Pte., Cleversafe. That works out to 23.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 13,327 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Greg R. Dhuse IBM 504
2 Wesley B. Leggette IBM 450
3 Ravi Kuchibhotla Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 391
#4 Ilya Volvovski IBM 317
#5 S. Christopher Gladwin Cleversafe 281
#6 Akira Yamaguchi Fujitsu Limited 262
#7 Manish Motwani IBM 227
#8 Leon Stenneth Here Global B.V. 193
#9 Paul M. Lesley Bally Gaming 186
#10 Robert A. West Trading Technologies International 158
#11 Jeremy M. Hornik Wms Gaming 156
#12 Tino Soelberg Steelseries Aps 154
#13 Alberto Peralta Nucurrent 153
#14 Geraint Krumpe Liberty Hardware Mfg. 147
#15 Scott H. Wilson Wimo Labs 143
#16 Jeffrey A. Hubbell University Of Texas System 139
#17 Blake Konrardy State Farm 127
#18 Timothy C. Loose Wms Gaming 126
#19 James M. Rasmussen Wms Gaming 125
#20 Supratik Guha IBM 122
#21 Antonio Facchetti Polytec Gmbh 116
#22 George Kondiles Ocient Holdings 114
#23 Tong Wu Shanghai Tianma Am-Oled Co. 113
#24 Damon E. Gura Wms Gaming 109
#25 Mark Miller Cfph 107
#26 Antonio Belton Water Pik 104
#27 Satoru Inoue Mitsubishi Electric 103
#28 James Fowe Here Global B.V. 102
#29 Gurpreet Singh Intel 100
#29 James E. Audia Eli Lilly 100
#31 Akio Tanaka Nec 97
#32 Loren Veltrop Prince Castle 96
#32 Martin L. Zimmerman Commscope Technologies 96
#34 Yu-Chuan Lin Qualcomm 95
#35 Monisha Ghosh Interdigital Patent Holdings 91
#36 Mark V. Slusar Allstate Insurance 90
#36 Dane K. Parker The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 90
#38 Bart R. Cilfone IBM 89
#38 Piotr Konrad Tysowski Research In Motion Limited 89
#38 Jason Arnold Ocient Holdings 89
#38 Lori Greiner For Your Ease Only 89
#42 Andrew C. Guinn Wms Gaming 88
#43 Alan P. Kozikowski Georgetown University 87
#44 James E. Brewer Survivalink 86
#45 Steven Rehkemper Rehco 85
#45 Jennifer A. Brandmaier Allstate Insurance 85
#47 Robert J. Klein Cummins-Allison 84
#48 Ankit Gupta Google 83
#48 Alberto Velez Holly Hunt Enterprises 83
#48 Christopher B. Houghton Access Business Group International 83

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