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 Dartmouth College, S. C. Johnson & Son, Bally Gaming. That works out to 23.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 9,051–9,100 of 13,327 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#7538 Jonathan F. Alter Dartmouth College 1
#7538 John Gschwind, Jr. 1
#7538 Sydney Minnis S. C. Johnson & Son 1
#7538 Christopher J Talko Bally Gaming 1
#7538 Oluwajoba Adegboye 1
#7538 Lena Thomer The University Of Chicago 1
#7538 Jeffery T. Eschbach Motorola Solutions 1
#7538 Dan Saltzman 1
#7538 Christopher D Pipe Motorola Mobility 1
#7538 Hemani Dharia Colgate-Palmolive 1
#7538 Webelene Bethea 1
#7538 Dylan Nugent Meta 1
#7538 Charles J. Reedy Nalco Company 1
#7538 Rick Ellison 1
#7538 Austen He 1
#7538 Elizabeth Dhulst Dow Global Technologies 1
#7538 Henry Lukic American Dental Association Foundation 1
#7538 Les Morgret Wm. Wrigley Jr. 1
#7538 Chris Ruhland Generation Brands 1
#7538 Michael Lee Maxie 1
#7538 Nathan Brune Allstate Insurance 1
#7538 Tanya Jackson 1
#7538 Michael Scott University Of Illinois 1
#7538 Ariel P. Sundel Motorola Mobility 1
#7538 Heather G Dowdy Motorola Mobility 1
#7538 Rob Kyte Bally Gaming 1
#7538 Miriam Cloquell Gonzalez PepsiCo 1
#7538 Manuel A. Espinoza 1
#7538 Aymeric Rousseau Uchicago Argonne 1
#7538 Jorge M Pinheiro 1
#7538 Mikhail Malyshev 1
#7538 Alexey Goldin 1
#7538 Adam J Bousley Motorola Mobility 1
#7538 Zachary Grelewicz The University Of Chicago 1
#7538 Chester Bryant 1
#7538 Garvil Giurgiu Here Global B.V. 1
#7538 Ryan Nurnberger United Airlines 1
#7538 Veronica Stout-Holly 1
#7538 Juan Antonio Rivera Werner 1
#7538 Abrin L. Schmucker Northwestern University 1
#7538 Ken Shreve Cubic 1
#7538 Hariharan Vijayaraghavan Sap Se 1
#7538 J. Michael Smith Tropicana Products 1
#7538 Wthan S. Abernathy Medline Industries, Lp 1
#7538 Ullas Unnikrishnan Allstate Insurance 1
#7538 Daniel Carrasco Garcia Allstate Insurance 1
#7538 Joe Rule Allstate Insurance 1
#7538 Amynah Pradhan Carnegie Mellon University, A Pennsylvania Non-Profit 1
#7538 Brad G. Carmen Illinois Tool Works 1
#7538 Michael Cumberland Sears Brands, L.L.C. 1

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