Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fort Lauderdale, FL ranks #536 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,298 patents from 1,290 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fort Lauderdale, FL include Symbiosis, Macneil Ip, Zoll Circulation. That works out to 34.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,290 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles R. Slater Symbiosis 118
2 David F. MacNeil Macneil Ip 107
3 Darren Sherman Zoll Circulation 98
#4 William H. Robertson, Jr. Motorola 93
#5 Nicole Elizabeth Samec Magic Leap 83
#6 William Hudson Welch Magic Leap 78
#7 Robert D. Tekolste Magic Leap 77
#8 Prem Nath Energy Conversion Devices 67
#9 Nathan Zommer Ixys 61
#9 James Charles Juranitch Xdi Holdings 61
#11 Alvin S. Blum Predator Systems 58
#12 William Wheeler Magic Leap 57
#13 Sebastian Gonzalo Arrieta Gunther Magic Leap 56
#14 Kingsley R. Chin Spinefrontier 52
#14 Daniel Posnack Rom Technologies 52
#14 Antonio Faraone 52
#17 Leo C. Singleton, IV Citrix Systems 50
#17 Alejandro G. Blanco 50
#19 John O'Donnell Inmusic Brands 43
#20 Anastasia Andreyevna Tajik Magic Leap 40
#20 Kevin Messer Magic Leap 40
#22 Howard Sussman Nec Electronics 39
#22 Steve Doumar Taptext 39
#22 Mohammed Ali Hajianpour Nutek Orthopedics 39
#25 Charles Neal Sumlin Amini Innovation 36
#25 Zachary Carl Nienstedt Emed Labs 36
#27 Ian B. Aaron Ubicquia 35
#28 Jonathan J. Vitello Medical Device Engineering 34
#28 Kenneth Solovay Cordis 34
#30 Jonathan Brodsky Texas Instruments 33
#30 Rene Xavier Filho Sigma Enterprises 33
#30 David J. Enscore Alza 33
#33 Avraham Goldstein 32
#33 Simone Rodrigues Oliveira Xavier Sigma Enterprises 32
#35 Mohamed Abou Shousha The University Of Miami 31
#35 Marc E. Seinfeld Microsoft 31
#35 Brian Schmitz Mako Surgical 31
#35 David M. Glaser Loctite 31
#39 Peter C. Whittington 29
#39 Roger Davenport Golf Impact 29
#39 Christopher Fleck Citrix Systems 29
#42 Channing Miller Sensormatic Electronics 28
#42 Keith Rubin Seedlings Life Science Ventures 28
#42 Charles L. Jones Whirlpool 28
#42 John Padgett Disney 28
#46 Claudio R. Ballard Veedims 27
#46 Luther G. Simjian Automation 27
#48 Jean-Marc Girardin Valeda Company 26
#48 Jamil Elbanna Trinity Orthopedics 26
#48 Radu Iorgulescu Mako Surgical 26

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