Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cologne, DE ranks #238 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 12,561 patents from 2,479 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cologne, DE include Bayer Healthcare, Bayer Cropscience, Zf Friedrichshafen Ag.

Showing 1–50 of 2,479 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Robert R. Schmidt Bayer Healthcare 331
2 Josef Pedain Bayer Healthcare 155
3 Reinhard Lantzsch Bayer Healthcare 135
#4 Otto Schallner Bayer Healthcare 128
#5 Arnd Voerste Bayer Cropscience 122
#6 Wolfgang Podszun Bayer Healthcare 116
#7 Kerstin Ilg Bayer Cropscience 114
#8 Ingeborg Hammann Bayer Healthcare 105
#9 Thilo Schmidt Zf Friedrichshafen Ag 89
#10 Hermann Hagemann Bayer Healthcare 87
#11 Werner Rasshofer Bayer Healthcare 77
#12 Heinrich Alberts Bayer Healthcare 72
#13 Claudio Messale Ford 68
#14 Jan Mehring Ford 60
#14 Martin Sicken Clariant Finance (Bvi) Limited 60
#16 Dieter Morszeck Rimowa Gmbh 57
#17 Lutz Schmalstieg Bayer Healthcare 55
#17 Walter Schafer Bayer Healthcare 55
#19 Hans-Dieter Block Bayer Healthcare 54
#20 Markus Follmann Bayer Pharma 53
#21 Peter Bergthaller Agfa-Gevaert Nv 51
#22 Winfried Joentgen Bayer Healthcare 49
#23 Hans-Heinrich Moretto Bayer Healthcare 48
#23 Horst Muller Ciba-Geigy 48
#25 Yasser Mohamed sayed Yacoub Ford 46
#25 Karlfried Wedemeyer Bayer Healthcare 46
#27 Hans-Joachim Scholl Bayer Healthcare 45
#27 Axel Klatt Deutsche Telekom Ag 45
#27 Reinhold Klipper Bayer Healthcare 45
#30 Matthias Schramm Bayer Healthcare 44
#30 Joachim Probst Bayer Healthcare 44
#30 Thomas Jaetsch Bayer Healthcare 44
#33 Klaus Muellen Basf Se 43
#34 Heinz Kunert Saint-Gobain Vitrage 42
#34 Siegfried Raddatz Bayer Healthcare 42
#36 Ernesto Rupar Ford 41
#37 Torsten Groth Bayer Healthcare 39
#38 Hermann Henk Bayer Healthcare 38
#38 Daniel Wetzig Inficon Ag 38
#38 Rudolf Schmidt Bsh Bosch Und Siemens Hausgeräte Gmbh 38
#41 Heinrich Odenwalder Agfa-Gevaert Nv 37
#41 Jordan Demkiw Ford 37
#41 Klaus Noll Bayer Healthcare 37
#44 Tobias Wagner Reifenhäuser Gmbh & Co. Kg Maschinenfabrik 35
#45 Jurgen Kirsch Bayer Healthcare 34
#46 Siegfried Schneider Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 33
#47 Josef Witte Bayer Healthcare 32
#47 Bernd Springer Bayer Cropscience 32
#47 Jens Winkel Bayer Healthcare 32
#47 Eckhard Wenz Bayer Materialscience Ag 32