Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Columbus, OH ranks #183 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 15,751 patents from 3,880 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Columbus, OH include American Standard, Ohio State University, Coulter Ventures, Llc.. That works out to 17.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,880 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Sean W. Svendsen American Standard 126
2 Carlo M. Croce Ohio State University 109
3 William Henniger Coulter Ventures, Llc. 96
#4 Ryan R. Berger Oms Investments 92
#4 Kannan Srinivasan Dionex 92
#6 Lawrence A. Lynn Unknown 89
#7 John William Koenig The Procter & Gamble 64
#8 Vincent D. McGinniss Battelle Memorial Institute 62
#9 Chien-Liang Lin United Microelectronics 61
#10 W. S. Winston Ho ExxonMobil 56
#11 James Huang Lua Nike 55
#11 Charles R. Patzer Smiths Medical Asd 55
#11 William G. Atterbury Eli Lilly 55
#14 Timothy J. Payne Refocus Group 54
#14 Diana Woehnl Juratovac The Procter & Gamble 54
#16 Christopher R. O'Keefe Hill-Rom Services 53
#16 Ramanathan S. Lalgudi Battelle Memorial Institute 53
#16 Sean P. Fitzgerald Velocys 53
#19 Douglas A. Thornton Battelle Memorial Institute 52
#20 Liang-Shih Fan Ohio State Innovation Foundation 48
#21 Thomas J. Ward IBM 46
#21 Xuan Zhang Saudi Arabian Oil 46
#23 Stuart O. Goldman Alcatel Lucent 45
#24 Tobias Funk Triple Ring Technologies 44
#25 Joseph A. Rossin US Army 43
#26 Richard A. Grazzini Garden Genetics 42
#26 Gregory H. Butcher Stolle Machinery Company 42
#26 Bryan Adams Coulter Ventures, Llc. 42
#29 Christopher Hawker Unknown 40
#29 Herman P. Benecke Battelle Memorial Institute 40
#31 Thomas O Mera Great Lakes Neurotechnologies 39
#31 Eric J. Boettcher Honda Motor Co. 39
#31 Michael Grassi IBM 39
#34 Peter A. Koloski Holophane 38
#35 Donald J. Hackman US Air Force 37
#36 Eric Walton Ohio State University 36
#36 Daniel A. Haber The General Hospital 36
#36 Victor J. Cook, Jr. Koppers Fishing And Tackle 36
#36 Liang Zeng Sony 36
#40 Daniel B. Garbark Battelle Memorial Institute 35
#40 David B. Smathers Tosoh Smd 35
#40 Robert E. Haines HP 35
#40 Mark A. Wells Danaher 35
#44 William C. Russell Canon 34
#44 Li Gong Oracle 34
#44 Donald Collins Meves Melnor 34
#47 James Ryan Eder Includefitness 33
#48 William R. Dunnavant Ashland Oil 32
#48 Dehua Pei Ohio State Innovation Foundation 32
#48 Donald T. Witiak Ohio State University 32

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