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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fort Myers, FL ranks #1,268 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,658 patents from 489 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fort Myers, FL include Yoder Brother, Microsoft, Chicago Mercantile Exchange. That works out to 30.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 489 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Cornelis P. VandenBerg Yoder Brother 438
2 David C. Brown Microsoft 118
3 Robert F. Wallace 78
#4 Mohammed Hadi Chicago Mercantile Exchange 68
#5 William McCarthy Seminis Vegetable Seeds 61
#6 Gary C. Fulks Delphi Technologies 60
#7 Brian J. Just Seminis Vegetable Seeds 48
#8 Kevin D. Hunter Pitney Bowes 46
#9 Frank Levy 45
#10 Jouni Juhani Raatikainen Black Donuts Engineering Oy 44
#11 Richard Levy Lee County Mosquito Control District 38
#12 Nischit Shetty Seminis Vegetable Seeds 37
#13 Thomas J. Miller Spike'S Tactical 35
#14 Frank Salinas Penn State 30
#15 James B. Philip, Jr. 3M 28
#16 Robert K. Hughes, Jr. Flexstake 26
#16 Timothy P. O'Hagan Telxon 26
#18 David French Lam Research 24
#19 Peggy S. Willett 3M 23
#19 Andrew Timothy Robert Newman Silverbrook Research Pty 23
#21 William E. Wright Carrier 22
#21 Martin Krauss Adhezion Biomedical 22
#23 Alexander M. Eaton Eye Drop Imaging Technology 21
#24 Kimberley Levy 20
#25 Darryl S. Lee Dbdrop 19
#25 Loo T. Yap The Boc Group Limited 19
#27 Paul P. Ju Metanetics 18
#27 Gualtiero Giori De La Rue Giori S.A. 18
#29 John Goldman Communications Test Design 16
#30 Adolf H. Friedebach Fitness Master 15
#30 James Peter Morrissette 15
#32 Paul Jacobs Pharmafluidics Nv 14
#32 Arthur L. Cleary Vutek, Incorporated 14
#32 Brian D. Bradley Eye Drop Imaging Technology 14
#32 Daniel R. Harper Edwards, Harper, Mcnew & 14
#32 Quinton B. McNew Edwards, Harper, Mcnew & 14
#37 Joseph Cuiffi Draper Laboratory 13
#37 Clinton N. Sims 13
#39 Chad Brown Chevron 12
#39 Bryan J. Wesolek Data Ltd. 12
#39 Kenneth J. Greves Stop Stick 12
#39 Everett Waid Ameriglobe 12
#43 Christopher Godfrey Keurig Green Mountain 11
#43 Scott A. Kendrick Callminer 11
#43 Erik A. Strand Callminer 11
#43 Floyd F. Markling Poly-Flex 11
#43 John H. Fowler Smith International 11
#43 Scott R. Wolf Callminer 11
#43 Michael C. Dwyer Callminer 11
#43 Chad Jackson Jackson Pools 11

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