Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

Chicago, IL ranks #82 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 63,287 patents from 13,327 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Chicago, IL include Delta Faucet, Ford, University Of Illinois. That works out to 23.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 8,401–8,450 of 13,327 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#7538 Jeffery John Mathison Delta Faucet 1
#7538 Anthony Klepacki Ford 1
#7538 Dan Raymond Palonis 1
#7538 Erzsebet Szilagyi University Of Illinois 1
#7538 William Peruzzi 1
#7538 Kenneth La-Verne Woodard, JR. 1
#7538 Micah K. Bhatki Intel 1
#7538 Courtney Brooke Jackson Monarch Specialty Group 1
#7538 Matthew Eakins 1
#7538 Sergio O. Guevara Arryx 1
#7538 Gregory Richard Tarczynski 1
#7538 Anthony Cerra Steelseries Aps 1
#7538 Douglas Bevel 1
#7538 Shane Youkhana 1
#7538 Michelle C. Youkhana 1
#7538 Catherine A. Frank Abb Vie 1
#7538 Jingxue Xu Molex 1
#7538 Milesh Jain 1
#7538 Natalie Regis Activevideo Networks 1
#7538 Arthur Joseph Dietrich 1
#7538 Marie Drevets Emerson Electric 1
#7538 Lingzhi Cao Microsoft 1
#7538 Plato Chun-Chih Lee 1
#7538 Michael C. Arredia Bank of America 1
#7538 Shiho Toyonaga 1
#7538 Neil Owen Stevenson Conagra Foods Rdm 1
#7538 Michael Alan Pence Conagra Foods Rdm 1
#7538 Ronald Jenson Paper-Pak Industries 1
#7538 Rigel Gjomemo University Of Illinois 1
#7538 Christopher Michael Wiezien Brita Lp 1
#7538 Kok-Hann Lew GE 1
#7538 Charity A. Simpson 1
#7538 Scott N. Brumm Shure Acquisition Holdings 1
#7538 Jon A. Oyer Oregon Health & Science University 1
#7538 Roy Cheng-Chen Lu 1
#7538 Amirhossein Iranmanesh University Of Illinois 1
#7538 Michael Krisher 1
#7538 Joel Ingram Google 1
#7538 Arthur Scott Lanford Wms Gaming 1
#7538 Pranav U. Srivastava 1
#7538 Jason Machiela 1
#7538 Elizabeth J. Larrick Outerwall 1
#7538 Benjamin H. Morales Switchcraft 1
#7538 Daniel Knispell 1
#7538 Lana Bramlette 1
#7538 David Bradford Wilts 1
#7538 Yogesh D. Khairnar Electro-Motive Diesel 1
#7538 Pete Baroni King Koil Licensing Company 1
#7538 Claudiu Colteu W.W. Grainger 1
#7538 Jose L. Luque, Jr. 1

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