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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fairborn, OH ranks #3,440 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 865 patents from 231 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fairborn, OH include Nanotek Instruments Group, Honeywell, Ali Industries. That works out to 25.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 231 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yanbo Wang Nanotek Instruments Group 51
2 Thirumalai G. Palanisamy Honeywell 49
3 Terry Ali Ali Industries 41
#4 Benjamin M. Boyd Johnson & Johnson 27
#4 John M. Beakes Globe Protect 27
#6 Michael A. Lucarelli GE 24
#7 Randy L. Fagerquist Eastman Kodak 17
#8 Jeffrey M. Singer Honeywell 16
#9 Jeffrey A. Shepherd General Motors 14
#10 Pathirage Perera IBM 13
#11 Ajith Harshana Ranabahu Amazon 12
#11 Narayanan Venkatasubramanian US Air Force 12
#11 Jeffrey Allen Sturgill University Of Dayton 12
#11 James G. Grote US Air Force 12
#11 Lawrence G. Scanlon, Jr. US Air Force 12
#16 James L. Rutledge Motorola 11
#17 Adam Warren US Air Force 10
#17 John F. Feltz Avery Dennison Retail Information Services 10
#17 David L. Fischer Premark Feg L.L.C. 10
#17 Phillip Glenn Ali Ali Industries 10
#17 Matthew C. Everhart Spirit Aerosystems 10
#22 Roger W. Mercer US Air Force 9
#22 Jack A. Schroeder Motorola 9
#22 Anthony R. Arment Pop Test Oncology 9
#25 Scott M. Pappada Aptima 8
#25 Jason Jewell Huffy 8
#25 James J. Simpson Delphi Technologies 8
#25 Prabhakar B. Rao Fleetguard 8
#25 Martin P. DeSimio Qualia Computing 8
#30 Chyi-Shan Wang University Of Dayton 7
#30 Steven J. Savage US Air Force 7
#32 Christopher Watkins Eastman Kodak 6
#32 Ronald D. Rodabaugh NVIDIA 6
#32 Peter Voland US Air Force 6
#32 Sean Harshman US Air Force 6
#32 Virgil L. Samborsky 6
#32 Rolf Metzger Bachofen + Meier Ag Maschinenfabrik 6
#32 Thomas J. Jenkins US Air Force 6
#32 Thomas John Barniak, Jr. 6
#40 Ronald Beer Delphi Technologies 5
#40 Chen-guang Liu Nanotek Instruments Group 5
#42 Tyler J. Moody 4
#42 Alexander Pankonien US Air Force 4
#42 Kenneth P. Schwartz First Data 4
#42 Milburn E. Dupre US Air Force 4
#42 Robin McCarty Trimble Navigation Limited 4
#42 Dale R. Booher Energy Vent 4
#42 Malcolm E. Kelley 4
#42 Andrew Joseph Slanker Goodrich 4
#42 Danny J. Mitchell Premark Feg L.L.C. 4

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