Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Frankfort, IL ranks #2,711 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,137 patents from 200 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Frankfort, IL include Cnh Industrial America, Illinois Tool Works, Nucurrent. That works out to 56.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 200 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Chad M. Johnson Cnh Industrial America 139
2 Eric Plourde Illinois Tool Works 60
3 Mark Melone Nucurrent 53
#4 Ronald C. Orlowski NVIDIA 40
#4 John H. Schneider Illinois Tool Works 40
#6 Andrew J. Stroede Panduit 38
#7 Jerry A. Wiltjer Panduit 31
#8 Donald J. Booty, Jr. Phorm Concept & Design 29
#9 Michael R. Mooney Constar International 28
#10 Gerald A. Sus Restaurant Technology 27
#11 Keith S. Maranto Panduit 21
#12 Charles VanderVelde Panduit 20
#12 Bryan Nooner Midwest Innovative Products 20
#14 Shaun Richmond Thrall Car Manufacturing 18
#15 Paul M. Herbst Panduit 17
#15 John Scheerer Chicago Mercantile Exchange 17
#17 Arvid C. Johnson Information Resources 14
#17 Robert J. Centner Illinois Tool Works 14
#17 Larry R. Link American Cooling Systems 14
#20 Craig J. Wojcik Hamilton Sundstrand 13
#20 Jason J. German Panduit 13
#22 William O. Teach Paratech, Incorporated 12
#23 David I. Scott Cngmotive 11
#24 Mark Y. Zhan Holland 10
#24 John P. Cammarata IBM 10
#24 Chad Elliott A. J. Antunes & 10
#24 Ronald G. Wencel Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre Gmbh 10
#24 Richard William Condon Roper Holdings 10
#24 Monte Gene Weller Cnh Industrial America 10
#30 Jeremy S. Parrish Panduit 9
#30 Christopher M. Pangallo Illinois Tool Works 9
#30 Darren J. Reigle Panduit 9
#33 Myron Pavlacka Federal Signal 8
#34 Duane P. Belitz Federal Signal 7
#34 James L. Zygutis Occupant Safety Systems 7
#34 Kevin Goodwin Andrew 7
#34 Daniel M. Barich GE 7
#34 Robert J. Recupido Trn Business Trust 7
#39 Edward Mild Allied Tube & Conduit 6
#39 Joseph S. Rohaly Panduit 6
#39 Mary Anne Papp Inrange Systems 6
#39 Frank Kocian Deutsche Forschungsanstalt Fur Luft-Und Raumfahrt E.V. 6
#43 Paul T. Klawitter Applied Systems 5
#43 Henry R. Narcisi 5
#43 Adam J. Sargis Panduit 5
#43 Charles Vander Velde Panduit 5
#43 Gautam S. Haldankar The Sherwin-Williams 5
#43 Donald J. Booty 5
#43 Shifang Xu 5
#43 Gerald W. Seliga Productronix 5

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