Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Darien, IL ranks #2,880 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,061 patents from 266 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Darien, IL include Viskase Companies, Ppg Industries Ohio, Sarawak Medichem Pharmaceuticals. That works out to 48.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 266 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Stephen J. Vicik Viskase Companies 45
2 Shengkui Hu Ppg Industries Ohio 41
3 Michael T. Flavin Sarawak Medichem Pharmaceuticals 25
3 William A. Bernard Panduit 25
#5 Andrew R. Wolff Ppg Industries Ohio 24
#6 Deming Shu Uchicago Argonne 23
#6 Sumit Bhattacharya NVIDIA 23
#8 Anita Mehta Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited 22
#9 Thomas Michael Chlystek Cnh America 20
#10 Amirali G. Rehmat Institute Of Gas Technology 19
#11 Kartar S. Arora Henkel Limited 18
#12 John Nyhoff Chicago Mercantile Exchange 16
#13 Stacy Mo MIT 13
#13 Hamid Arastoopour Illinois Institute Of Technology 13
#13 Bryan Kaleta 13
#13 Paul D. Nizzere Pelstar 13
#13 Kent Carroll Hose Shop 13
#18 Michael C. Mensinger Institute Of Gas Technology 12
#18 Vijaya Kumar Electro-Motive Diesel 12
#18 Jiadong Ma Slis 12
#18 Srikantiah Raghuram Uop 12
#22 Edward W. Holmes US Army 11
#22 David J. Wendell Cummins-Allison 11
#22 John J. Steffen Amsted Industries Incorporated 11
#25 Richard J. Nadolsky Baker Hughes Holdings 10
#25 Francis S. Lau Greatpoint Energy 10
#27 Cecil A. Weeramantry Cnh Industrial America 9
#27 Wenquan Lu Midea Group Co. 9
#27 Mohan K. Panicker The Middleby 9
#27 Alexei Kanareykin Euclid Techlabs 9
#31 Suresh Babu Institute Of Gas Technology 8
#31 Janet A. Bradshaw Marconi Communications Gmbh 8
#31 Philip C. Hawken Robertshaw Controls 8
#31 Hirohide Toyama Shuffle Tech International 8
#31 Mark Kaleta 8
#36 Xiaoqi Cui The Nielsen Company (Us) 7
#36 Xinwen Xiao RTX (Raytheon) 7
#36 Dean J. Miller The University Of Chicago 7
#39 Priscilla Walling Helene Curtis 6
#39 David Hinkle Securly 6
#39 Frank M. Graczyk Electro-Motive Diesel 6
#39 Michael Davidian Wilbert 6
#39 Jon R. Hagarty J. I. Case 6
#39 Rudeger H. Wilke Savage Bros. 6
#39 Charu Verma AT&T 6
#39 Paul R. Stonikas Beltone Electronics 6
#39 Angelo Gregory Papadourakis 6
#39 Sergei Bavykin The University Of Chicago 6
#39 Ralph M. Schure Eschem 6
#39 Sameer H. Israni Praxair Technology 6

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