Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Deerfield, IL ranks #1,465 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,303 patents from 442 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Deerfield, IL include Marvin Glass & Associates, Wms Gaming, G.D. Searle. That works out to 120.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 442 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Howard J. Morrison Marvin Glass & Associates 64
2 Richard T. Schwartz Wms Gaming 63
3 Paul W. Collins G.D. Searle 59
#4 Dale P. Spangler G.D. Searle 48
#4 Arnold C. Bilstad Baxter Travenol Laboratories 48
#6 Bruce Shapiro Medline Industries, Lp 46
#6 Sarfaraz K. Niazi Therapeutic Proteins International 46
#8 Anatoly Agulnik 40
#9 Gregory D. Venburg Valent Biosciences 36
#10 Martin Winn Abbott 32
#10 Bryan Weber Thermage 32
#12 Matthew Frank Trapani Security Enhancement Systems 31
#13 Evan D. Linderman Carefusion 2200 29
#14 David G. Barkalow Wm. Wrigley Jr. 28
#14 Eggo Haschke Poly-Clip System 28
#14 Henry J. Bubley American Screen Printing Equipment 28
#14 Ahmad Y. Sheikh Abb Vie 28
#18 Jeffrey M. Jones Intuity Medical 24
#19 Ameeta Vasant Reed Entigenlogic 23
#20 Ragab El-Rashidy Pentech Pharmaceuticals 22
#20 Bradley A. Sliz State Farm 22
#22 Benjamin D. Miller Remcor Products 21
#22 Paula Friedman Abbott 21
#24 Steven R. Katz Fenwal 20
#25 John C. Hoenninger, III University of California 19
#26 Jianchun Gong Abbott 18
#26 Robert Kronenberger American Needle 18
#26 Jeffrey Thomas Weber Intercontinental Great Brands 18
#29 Franco A. Cisternino Illinois Tool Works 17
#29 Donald E. Raterman Cummins-Allison 17
#29 William W. Norton Culligan International 17
#29 Arthur F. Seymour Elenco Electronics 17
#33 David Lacey Graphcore Limited 16
#33 Ronald L. Meibach Kraft Foods Holdings 16
#33 Lawrence A. Potempa Immtech International 16
#33 Carl J. Stevens Uop 16
#37 Howard R. Heyman Abb Vie 15
#37 Steven Dickerson International Engine Intellectual Property Company 15
#39 Rishi Khullar Walgreen 14
#39 Daniel Tell Motorola 14
#41 Herbert Mittleman Baxter Travenol Laboratories 13
#41 Steven F. Borsand Trading Technologies International 13
#41 Thomas McCartney Oneac 13
#41 William J. Smirles Welch Allyn 13
#41 Zoran Gracer Travel Caddy 13
#41 Allan D. Kautz Philips 13
#41 Michael Bleser Walgreen 13
#48 Ronald K. Worth Worth-Pfaff Innovations, Incorporated 12
#49 Esra Ozdaryal Abb Vie 11
#49 Donald F. Jaycox Nortel Networks Limited 11

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