Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gainesville, FL ranks #295 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 10,244 patents from 2,267 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gainesville, FL include University of Florida, IBM, The Boeing. That works out to 72.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,267 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Raymond J. Bergeron, Jr. University of Florida 103
2 Omer H. Dokumaci IBM 97
3 John E. Rogers The Boeing 92
#4 David G. Clark Florida Foundation Seed Producers 84
#5 Gideon Shapiro Epizyme 76
#6 Richard J. Melker University of Florida 73
#7 Jerry F. Butler International Flavors & Fragrances 66
#8 Steven Albert Benner Eragen Biosciences 64
#9 Scott E. Thompson Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited 61
#10 Christopher D. Batich University of Florida 58
#11 Ethan Fieldman Study Social 56
#12 Roy Curtiss, III Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 54
#13 Yong Huang University of Florida 51
#14 Samsun Lampotang University of Florida 50
#14 Neil R. Euliano Etectrx 50
#16 Gary Dean Ragner Ragner Technology 47
#17 Gary L. Simonds Mcp Ip 46
#18 Thomas M. Vanasse Biomet Manufacturing 44
#18 Jose C. Principe University of Florida 44
#20 Fan Ren University of Florida 43
#20 William W. Gregory Smith & Nephew 43
#22 Swarup Bhunia University of Florida 41
#23 Christine E. Schmidt University Of Texas System 40
#23 Chang-Yu Wu University of Florida 40
#25 Qi Zhu Sunjoy Industries Group 39
#25 Subrata Roy University of Florida 39
#27 David P. Arnold University of Florida 38
#27 Wallace Gregory Sawyer University of Florida 38
#29 William J. Dalzell Honeywell 37
#29 Ronald H. Baney Dow Corning 37
#31 Brij M. Moudgil University of Florida 35
#31 Sergei Zolotukhin University of Florida 35
#31 Yong-Kyu Yoon University of Florida 35
#31 David E. Clark Baker Hughes Holdings 35
#35 Arthur E. Clark US Air Force 34
#35 John R. Bianchi Rti Biologics 34
#35 Soumyajit Mandal Schlumberger Technology 34
#35 Kenneth B. Wagener University of Florida 34
#39 Wei Wei University of Florida 33
#39 Mavis Agbandje-McKenna University of Florida 33
#41 Thomas Johnson Broadcom 32
#41 Glenn Zelniker Bongiovi Acoustic 32
#41 Manjunath Anandarama Krishnam Qualcomm 32
#41 Feng Huang Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 32
#45 David E. Fowler Quadrex Hps 31
#45 Jenshan Lin University of Florida 31
#45 William Toreki Quick-Med Technologies 31
#48 Richard T. Schneider US Air Force 29
#49 Khanh Dinh Heat-Pipe Technology 28
#49 Shravan Gaonkar Netapp 28

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