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 Microsoft, Synata Bio, University Of Houston System. That works out to 23.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 8,551–8,600 of 13,327 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#7538 Lars A. Bergstrom Microsoft 1
#7538 Gary L. Phelps 1
#7538 Jennine B. Terrill Synata Bio 1
#7538 Oliver Rawashdeh University Of Houston System 1
#7538 Erica Mae Delisle Baxter Healthcare Sa 1
#7538 John C. Hutchinson Stepan 1
#7538 Marleke Smets Pnc Financial Services Group 1
#7538 Bernardino Garcia 1
#7538 Olesya Ulanovskaya The University Of Chicago 1
#7538 Jiayue Cui The University Of Chicago 1
#7538 Sarah Schulte 1
#7538 Rajesh Kumar Karmani Romaine Empire 1
#7538 Anthony Swanson Northwestern University 1
#7538 Iftinca Ioan Liviu Kolcraft Enterprises 1
#7538 Stacy P. Chronopoulos Moat Metrics 1
#7538 George Mathew Davis Illinois Tool Works 1
#7538 Ravi Kuchibotla Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 1
#7538 Ke Feng Moat Metrics 1
#7538 Deanna Lily Emery Moat Metrics 1
#7538 Yew-Young Loo 1
#7538 Tiffany Davis Northwestern University 1
#7538 Phillip H Fensel Rehco 1
#7538 Andrea Grace Klock Northwestern University 1
#7538 Peter Ehling Pnc Financial Services Group 1
#7538 Deborah E. Maurer IBM 1
#7538 Dennis Chau Relativity Oda 1
#7538 Matthew James Oblak Kolcraft Enterprises 1
#7538 Leonard Verhagen Metman Rush University Medical Center 1
#7538 Ehab Zaghloul Michigan State University 1
#7538 Federico E. Mordini Northshore University Healthsystem 1
#7538 Abel B. Zaborowski 1
#7538 Surendra K. Ravula Sandia 1
#7538 Marc F. Sobas 1
#7538 Christopher Gust Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated 1
#7538 Katherine Warpeha University Of Illinois 1
#7538 Azuolas Sinkevicius 1
#7538 Zachary William Martin 1
#7538 Frederic Herrbach Motorola Mobility 1
#7538 Marc Stephen Verdiel Logos Technologies 1
#7538 Carolina I. Bohorquez Fuentes 1
#7538 Alejandro Saucedo Crown Packaging Technology 1
#7538 Guna Selvaraj Motorola Solutions 1
#7538 Carrie Brubaker Northwestern University 1
#7538 Clark Mark University Of Illinois 1
#7538 Lewis B. Gardner 1
#7538 Maurilio Hernandez 1
#7538 Pascale N. Lacor Acumen Pharmaceuticals 1
#7538 Tawny Bragg Axiomed Spine 1
#7538 Marlon Ewing 1
#7538 George E. Waldo, II Illinois Tool Works 1

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