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 Northwestern University, Motorola Mobility, Hydro-Quebec. That works out to 23.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 8,751–8,800 of 13,327 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#7538 Brian Ruhe Northwestern University 1
#7538 Matthew A. Cowen 1
#7538 Leon Fitzpatrick Motorola Mobility 1
#7538 Imad Lakhal 1
#7538 Robert Selman Hydro-Quebec 1
#7538 Farrukh Khan 1
#7538 Randall Wesley US Dept of Veterans Affairs 1
#7538 Peter Jug Rust-Oleum 1
#7538 Youngsoo Matt Moon Rust-Oleum 1
#7538 Jeff P. Lowenthal Accenture Global Services Limited 1
#7538 Fauzia Zaman Mallik Accenture Global Services Limited 1
#7538 Vince Chavez Molex 1
#7538 Mark D Schoenhals 1
#7538 Slava Steve Rovner Unknown 1
#7538 Maria Callahan 1
#7538 Wilmer Enrique Useche 1
#7538 Lael W. Hamilton 1
#7538 Dhruv Chawla Pricewaterhousecoopers Llp 1
#7538 Christina M. Marotta Walgreen 1
#7538 R. William DePaolo Michigan State University 1
#7538 Katie A. Overheim Michigan State University 1
#7538 Elizabeth M. Morrin Michigan State University 1
#7538 Bana Jabri Michigan State University 1
#7538 Vorapong Sutanont Pricewaterhousecoopers Llp 1
#7538 Federico A. Almaraz Northwestern University 1
#7538 Sateria Venable 1
#7538 Andrei Michael Chahine Crocs 1
#7538 Ryan David Stotts Crocs 1
#7538 Don Lehman Tearscience 1
#7538 Nadim Mahmud University Of Illinois 1
#7538 Joseph De Simone University Of Illinois 1
#7538 Jason Waugh HP 1
#7538 Emilie Williams-Romero Arrow Fastener Company 1
#7538 James Manely Duros Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories 1
#7538 William Henry Miceli Accenture Global Services Limited 1
#7538 Laura M. Maymon Abbott 1
#7538 Stephen A. Meli Pactiv 1
#7538 Carlos Ortize Adp 1
#7538 Earl Grant, Sr. Unknown 1
#7538 Dean Latchman 1
#7538 Glenda Latchman 1
#7538 James Bellanca Cleversafe 1
#7538 David Guagliardo Stanford University 1
#7538 Mondhar Ben-Hamida IBM 1
#7538 David Calvin Harris Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund 1
#7538 Sarah M. Abrams 1
#7538 William Lyle Hayhurst 1
#7538 Kul Huang Northwestern University 1
#7538 Christofer Joseph Ruder Kankakee Spikeball 1
#7538 Taylor Augustus Park 1

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