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 Astrazeneca Ab, HP, Uop. That works out to 23.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 8,701–8,750 of 13,327 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#7538 Jeffery Dillard 1
#7538 Jay M. Leese 1
#7538 Aysia R. Lewis 1
#7538 ERIK DAVID WOOD 1
#7538 Serdar E. Bulun Astrazeneca Ab 1
#7538 William J. Markham HP 1
#7538 Douglas E. Kuper Uop 1
#7538 Jeremiah Peter O'Leary Nevro 1
#7538 Curtis M. Botsford 1
#7538 Carl S. Hybinette Union Tank Car 1
#7538 Angela C. Holiday 1
#7538 Ilya Volvolvski Cleversafe 1
#7538 Kimberly Ann Cook 1
#7538 Devajit Mukherjee Sears Brands, L.L.C. 1
#7538 Thomas J. Emmons Sears Brands, L.L.C. 1
#7538 Sergey Kalinin University Of Illinois 1
#7538 Joshua R. Merok MIT 1
#7538 Doug Schein Organ Recovery Systems 1
#7538 Quan Gao Northwestern University 1
#7538 Jeffrey Jurgensen 1
#7538 Mitch Tennison Godiva Brands 1
#7538 Terrence Tong Godiva Brands 1
#7538 Jody L. Major Northwestern University 1
#7538 Alessandro ROTTA LORIA Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl) 1
#7538 James Hilyard Sears Brands, L.L.C. 1
#7538 Erika Mae Delisle Baxter Healthcare Sa 1
#7538 Joe Donlan Webmd 1
#7538 Rodrigo D. Dientsmann Cormark 1
#7538 Michael Cassata NVIDIA 1
#7538 Christopher P. Fredlake Northwestern University 1
#7538 Erica LeBlanc S. C. Johnson & Son 1
#7538 Russell Stonier 1
#7538 John M. McNaily Panduit 1
#7538 Olatunbosun Osinaike 1
#7538 Issac W. Hock Science House 1
#7538 Christopher L. Schroeder Northwestern University 1
#7538 Bradley D. Ulrich Northwestern University 1
#7538 Corey Wood Motorola Mobility 1
#7538 Ryan Giltner Here Global B.V. 1
#7538 Sean E. Wolfe Opinionlab 1
#7538 Philip R. Dybala 1
#7538 Leah A. Moskoff 1
#7538 Matthew C. McGuirl Honeywell 1
#7538 Maria Stroster 1
#7538 Ignacio Peralta 1
#7538 Katie J. Trella Rush University Medical Center 1
#7538 Ganesh Appasaheb Patil The Metraflex 1
#7538 Johnnie M. Harris 1
#7538 Claire Schauble S&C Electric 1
#7538 Paul Koehring Fortinet 1

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