Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cincinnati, OH ranks #40 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 49,644 patents from 8,043 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cincinnati, OH include Johnson & Johnson, GE, The Procter & Gamble. That works out to 160.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 8,043 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Frederick E. Shelton, IV Johnson & Johnson 2,720
2 Jerome R. Morgan Johnson & Johnson 554
3 Ching-Pang Lee GE 359
#4 Chad P. Boudreaux Johnson & Johnson 242
#5 Jeffrey D. Messerly Johnson & Johnson 237
#6 Uwe Schneider The Procter & Gamble 232
#7 Michael J. Stokes Johnson & Johnson 188
#8 Mark D. Overmyer Johnson & Johnson 186
#9 Robert M. Zerhusen Hill-Rom Services 174
#10 Richard H. Heimbrock Hill-Rom Services 167
#11 Richard L. Leimbach Johnson & Johnson 163
#12 Kevin M. Fiebig Cilag Gmbh International 161
#13 Paul Thomas Weisman The Procter & Gamble 154
#14 Eitan T. Wiener Johnson & Johnson 143
#15 Richard W. Timm Johnson & Johnson 138
#16 Andrew T. Beckman Johnson & Johnson 136
#17 George Endel Deckner The Procter & Gamble 132
#18 Thomas Ward Osborn, III 131
#18 Gary L. Long Johnson & Johnson 131
#20 Young Shin Kim Ticona 126
#21 Charles L. Dumoulin GE 123
#22 Emily A. Schellin Johnson & Johnson 116
#23 Richard F. Schwemberger Johnson & Johnson 106
#24 James W. Voegele Johnson & Johnson 105
#25 Daniel J. Mumaw Johnson & Johnson 104
#25 Steven G. Hall Johnson & Johnson 104
#27 Bret A. Ferree Anova 98
#28 Kelyn Anne Arora The Procter & Gamble 95
#28 John V. Hunt Johnson & Johnson 95
#30 Robert L. Koch, Jr. Johnson & Johnson 94
#31 Eugene L. Timperman Johnson & Johnson 93
#32 Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn Iheart Media Management Services 92
#32 Nilanjan Mukherjee Mentor Graphics 92
#34 Eugene Paul Gosselink The Procter & Gamble 91
#35 Omar J. Vakharia Johnson & Johnson 90
#36 John Joseph Curro The Procter & Gamble 88
#37 Kenneth Stephen McGuire The Procter & Gamble 84
#38 Ryan M. Asher Cilag Gmbh International 82
#39 Errol Hoffman Wahl The Procter & Gamble 80
#40 Toru Matsuura Panasonic 79
#41 Michael D. Hooven Atricure 76
#41 Scott Edward Smith The Procter & Gamble 76
#41 Jainagesh A. Sekhar Moltech Invent S.A. 76
#44 Alan David Willey The Procter & Gamble 75
#44 Xinyu Zhao Ticona 75
#46 Jacob S. Gee Johnson & Johnson 74
#46 Brian Lee Floyd The Procter & Gamble 74
#46 Morgan R. Hunter Cilag Gmbh International 74
#49 David Morrow Warrior Sports 72
#50 William M. Hung Hilton Davis Chemical 71

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