Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Glenview, IL ranks #641 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 5,258 patents from 857 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Glenview, IL include Wms Gaming, Dart Industries, Steelseries Aps. That works out to 108.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 857 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joel R. Jaffe Wms Gaming 194
2 William C. Cesaroni Dart Industries 146
3 Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister Steelseries Aps 104
#4 Joseph A. Kocal Uop 78
#5 Brian H. Silver Medela Holding Ag 74
#6 Michael Gurin Unknown 72
#7 Gregory J. Foster Medline Industries, Lp 71
#8 Jun Tan Nokia Technologies Oy 61
#9 Taiwon Choi Fellowes 59
#9 Anatoly S. Belkin Icu Medical 59
#9 Richard Sylvan The Hirsh 59
#12 Earl O. Bergersen Ortho-Tain 57
#13 Robert R. Frame Uop 56
#14 George A. Golota Clear Lam Packaging 54
#15 Richard B. Robbins Bally Gaming 48
#16 David Y. Badawi Sight Sciences 47
#16 Ronald A. Masters Stepan 47
#18 Clara I. Villamil G.D. Searle 45
#19 Gary F. Smith GE 43
#20 Ruben D Castano Motorola Mobility 42
#21 John Q. Chen Uop 41
#22 John Lull Celerity 40
#22 James E. Rekoske Uop 40
#24 Yury Shkolnikov Illinois Tool Works 38
#25 Vinayak P. Dravid Northwestern University 36
#26 Omar K. Farha Northwestern University 35
#26 Leo Klinstein Dukane Ias 35
#26 Ali Alwattari Halliburton Energy Services 35
#29 Christina M. Tranfaglia Pactiv 34
#29 Andrew Frolov Robert Bosch Gmbh 34
#29 Bary Lyn Zeller Kraft Foods Holdings 34
#32 Dennis Kupperman Rb Toy Development 33
#32 John F. Wakerly Cisco 33
#34 Barbara Chen G.D. Searle 32
#34 Boris Y. Tsirline Zih 32
#34 Stuart Mintz Medline Industries, Lp 32
#34 Kenneth S. Chua Medline Industries, Lp 32
#38 Yifang Chu BOE 31
#38 John R. Krutsch Williams Electronics Games 31
#40 Paul Andrew Bauerschmidt Chicago Mercantile Exchange 29
#40 Shincy J. Maliekkal Baxter Healthcare Sa 29
#42 Charles C. Cherry Textura 28
#43 David R. Morris The Chamberlain Group 27
#44 William Tenorio Inventus Power 26
#44 Joseph M. Koenig, Jr. 26
#44 Ryan Niver Medline Industries, Lp 26
#47 David Greenwood ICI 25
#48 Issam Jabaji C.E. Niehoff & 24
#48 Robert J. O'Hara Windsor Industries 24
#50 Steven R. Chapman Avery Dennison 23

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