Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Hammond, IN ranks #3,440 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 865 patents from 261 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Hammond, IN include Amoco, Formax, Heetronix. That works out to 11.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 261 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Albert L. Hensley, Jr. Amoco 54
2 Paul Taylor Formax 40
3 James D. Parsons Heetronix 37
#4 Ralph Ogden Unknown 29
#5 Jason T. Czapka Cnh Industrial America 26
#5 Russell G. Altherr Amsted Industries Incorporated 26
#7 Michael G. Hawryszkow Westinghouse Air Brake 20
#8 Donald C. Walker Aksys Gmbh 19
#9 Howard H. Enlow Avery Dennison 17
#10 David A. Hutchison Afton Chemical 12
#11 Frank J. Pustek American Maize-Products 11
#12 William J. Buehne Avery Dennison 10
#12 Howard M. Pielet Inland Steel 10
#12 Terry Morgan General Motors 10
#12 Justus C. Ndukaife Purdue Research Foundation 10
#12 Zeshan Hyder Life Spine 10
#17 Michael C. Dovellos Royal Brush Manufacturing 9
#18 Thomas G. Fuller Panduit 8
#18 Albert R. Sabol Standard Oil Company (Indiana) 8
#18 Rodney M. Mullett Polyjohn Enterprises 8
#21 Susan L. Kelly Royal Brush Manufacturing 7
#21 Julius J. Bonini Rostoker 7
#21 Saso P. Vlahu 7
#21 Joseph Simko Simko & Sons Industrial Refractories 7
#21 Chantel D. Willis Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co. 7
#26 Michael Bratcher 6
#26 Phillip Rosenband Morgan Marshall Industries 6
#26 Prabhat K. Rastogi Inland Steel 6
#26 James F. Grutsch Chemical Waste Management 6
#26 John W. Schwer 6
#31 Naiyang Ma Arcelormittal Investigación Y Desarrollo, S.L. 5
#31 Joseph M. Mecozzi Bee Chemical 5
#31 Madhusudan Hariharan Aquestive Therapeutics 5
#31 Kurtis E. LeVan 5
#31 Richard Johnsen Fuelcell Energy 5
#31 Richard E. Jarzombek Bee Chemical 5
#31 David Min Google 5
#31 John Daniel Lazar Midwest Products 5
#31 Brent J. Afman Osi Industries 5
#31 Narayan S. Pottore Arcelormittal 5
#31 George M. Dovellos Royal Brush Manufacturing 5
#42 Piush Kumar Hosley International Trading 4
#42 Edward N. Biel First Brands 4
#42 Site Guo 4
#42 Jeffrey P. Nowak Electro-Motive Diesel 4
#42 Stefan T. Pendrick Holland 4
#42 Donald F. Johnson Inland Steel 4
#42 Grigory Lyudkovsky Inland Steel 4
#42 Robert C. Florin Profile Systems 4
#42 Jerry Edward Cabrera Smiths Medical Asd 4

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