Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cleveland, OH ranks #433 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 7,385 patents from 1,781 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cleveland, OH include Spectrum Diversified Designs, GE, Ideastream Consumer Products. That works out to 19.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,781 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Omer I. Sazir Spectrum Diversified Designs 139
2 Louis R. Nerone GE 122
3 Daniel Perella Ideastream Consumer Products 94
#4 Robert F. Miller Gauthier Biomedical 77
#5 Jeffrey Marks Applied Materials 73
#5 Mark E. Cipolla Royal Appliance Mfg. 73
#7 Marc Vitantonio Alcoa 68
#8 Bin Zhang HP 65
#9 Jason Tilk Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 64
#10 Anthony DeMore Rubbermaid Incorporated 60
#11 David J. Boll Royal Appliance Mfg. 54
#12 Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu Unilever Home & Personal Care Usa, Division Of Conopco 51
#13 Nicole F. Steinmetz Case Western Reserve University 49
#14 Kevin L. Kilgore Case Western Reserve University 47
#15 Damon Jurkiewicz Invacare 46
#16 Arthur H. Gerber Borden 45
#17 Manfred Franke Case Western Reserve University 44
#18 Cameron C. McIntyre Cleveland Clinic 42
#19 Niloy Bhadra Case Western Reserve University 41
#20 Gary Wnek Case Western Reserve University 38
#21 Dustin Tyler Case Western Reserve University 37
#22 Dean J. Secrest United States Endoscopy Group 36
#22 Antonin A. Meibock K-2 36
#24 Bridget Hunt Spectrum Diversified Designs 35
#24 William S. Johnson Gilbarco 35
#24 Boyko Aladjov Ovonic Battery Company 35
#27 Maynard Payumo Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 33
#27 Jason R. Ertel GE 33
#29 Thomas Weber Grafttech 32
#29 Jason D. Smith Garland Industries 32
#29 Narendra Bhadra Case Western Reserve University 32
#32 John Harrington Atherosys 31
#32 Joel E. Goldstein Air Products And Chemicals 31
#34 David Michael Pehar PepsiCo 29
#35 Lukas Eisermann Warsaw Orthopedic 28
#35 Tina Vrabec Case Western Reserve University 28
#35 Benjamin Hietanen Ideastream Consumer Products 28
#38 Melissa Rus Garland Industries 27
#39 Richard Wilson Canon 26
#39 Mark Kaminski GE 26
#41 Alex Velet Zurn Industries 25
#41 Vernon E. Gleasman Torvec 25
#43 Robert Vystrcil Royal Appliance Mfg. 24
#44 Craig V. Bishop Atotech Deutschland 23
#44 Thomas Alexander Knapp GE 23
#46 John Patrick Petro Novatorque 22
#46 Joseph P. Kosir Fasteners For Retail 22
#46 Cory Bystrom Quest Diagnostics Investments 22
#49 Philip G. Neudeck NASA 21
#49 Benjamin Gaston University of Virginia 21

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