Top Inventors in DeKalb, IL | Patent Leaderboard

DeKalb, IL ranks #4,484 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 614 patents from 159 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in DeKalb, IL include Ideal Industries, GE, Allstate Insurance. That works out to 15.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 159 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Robert W. Sutter	Ideal Industries	33
2	John H. Boyd, Jr.	GE	29
3	Rothana Srey	Allstate Insurance	23
#4	Charles Shepard	Hamilton Sundstrand	22
#5	Michael J. Murcia	Ecolab Usa	21
#6	David J. Castro	Ecolab Usa	19
#7	Qi Shuai	Abbott	18
#8	Sen M. Kuo	Chung Yuan Christian University	17
#9	Michael J. Haji-Sheikh	Honeywell	16
#10	Douglas W. Adams	Auto Meter Products	15
#10	Robert W. Healey	Brunswick	15
#12	David Kenny	Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories	10
#12	Guadalupe L. Galvan	Miner Enterprises	10
#12	Mark D. Klecka	Dytel	10
#15	Anthony C. Ippolito	The Wurlitzer	9
#15	Kenneth D. Hartman	Steiner Company	9
#15	Timothy Moreau	Tools Aviation, Llc.	9
#15	John Stofko	Unknown	9
#19	Charles W. Otto	GE	8
#19	Arnold E. Hampel	Biotechnology Research And Development	8
#21	Elizabeth R. Gaillard	Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University	7
#22	Neil Helm	Genpak	6
#22	James D. Kimble	Robertshaw Controls	6
#22	Graham M. Campbell	Illinois Institute Of Technology	6
#22	George P. Sullivan	—	6
#22	Tom J. Gleeson	Virtual Radiologic	6
#27	Kirk Duffin	Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University	5
#27	Jason W. Ludewig	J.L. Clark	5
#27	Bruno Widmann	Telenorma Gmbh	5
#27	Adam James Tammisto	Ideal Industries	5
#27	Ajit Pharne	Siemens Industry	5
#27	Andrew J. Dunham	Nalco Chemical	5
#27	Devi Kalyan Karumanchi	Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University	5
#27	Nicholas Karonis	Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University	5
#35	Narayan S. Hosmane	Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University	4
#35	Kenneth E. Hartman	Ammco Tools Technology	4
#35	Richard A. Yingling	Monsanto Technology	4
#35	Samuel A. Walt	—	4
#35	Edward K. Miguel	Kidde Recreation Products	4
#35	Gwendolyn Graff	Wm. Wrigley Jr.	4
#35	Kristen Nicole Gross	Ball Horticultural	4
#35	Robert D. Toms	Caterpillar	4
#35	David Castro	Ecolab Usa	4
#35	Sean C. McGinnis	Caterpillar	4
#35	Caesar Ordonez	Protonvda	4
#35	John Winans	Protonvda	4
#35	Thomas Holmes	Cretex Companies	4
#35	Stacey A. Murphy	Ideal Industries	4
#49	James Benson	Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University	3
#49	Heike Hofstetter	Yeda Research And Development Co.	3

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