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 Sloan Valve, Discover Financial Services, Here Global B.V.. That works out to 23.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 8,601–8,650 of 13,327 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#7538 Jocelyn R. Wilder 1
#7538 Greg Lilien 1
#7538 Mark Thomas Scheitler 1
#7538 Eileen Berke 1
#7538 Conrad L. Jahrling Sloan Valve 1
#7538 Purvag Patel Discover Financial Services 1
#7538 Maria R. Colomberti 1
#7538 Phillip Florczak 1
#7538 Stephen Edward Huntley 1
#7538 Sarath Kumar Barathi Here Global B.V. 1
#7538 Anita Chong Unknown 1
#7538 Isaac Sheba Yousif 1
#7538 Belvie Foster 1
#7538 Tommie Foster 1
#7538 Josh Doyle Accenture Global Services Limited 1
#7538 Gerald Foxx 1
#7538 Aqeel Ali Almarhoon 1
#7538 Leonard Charles Cudzilo 1
#7538 Larry Ellis Gee, Sr. 1
#7538 Benjamin K. Herrington 1
#7538 Paul Lawrence Berke International Engine Intellectual Property Company 1
#7538 Nada M. Hakimi 1
#7538 Dave Carta Unknown 1
#7538 Anna Palmer Unknown 1
#7538 Nicholas Gamroth US Air Force 1
#7538 Giamila Fantuzzi Yeda Research And Development Co. 1
#7538 Joel C Anderson 1
#7538 Sachin Pithadia 1
#7538 Jay Joshi 1
#7538 Stuart R. Friedman 1
#7538 Devin HENKEL Federal Reserve Bank Of Chicago 1
#7538 Melissa H Nuttall 1
#7538 Kristina Petrović Robert Bosch Gmbh 1
#7538 Melissa Coughlin Amgen 1
#7538 Andre Daval Tillery 1
#7538 Nick Ehrlich Microsoft 1
#7538 Christopher J. Vogel Uop 1
#7538 Benjamin Gottlieb 1
#7538 Kamaldeep Heyer Eidosmed 1
#7538 Heather K. Izumi Northwestern University 1
#7538 Ira Zilist Federal Reserve Bank Of Chicago 1
#7538 Stacy (Alycia) Thomas The Procter & Gamble 1
#7538 Brenden O'Brien 1
#7538 Jordan D. Altman 1
#7538 Jason Rosenblatt 1
#7538 Mary Ann Parker 1
#7538 Peter Cybulski Unknown 1
#7538 Roark F. Siko Archipelago Group 1
#7538 V.N. Venkatakrishnan University Of Illinois 1
#7538 Alex S. Holterman 1

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