Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Hannover, DE ranks #478 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,820 patents from 1,900 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Hannover, DE include Thomson Licensing, Fidlock Gmbh, Continental Reifen Deutschland Gmbh.

Showing 1–50 of 1,900 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ralf Ostermann Thomson Licensing 109
2 Marco Winter Thomson Licensing 75
3 Joachim Fiedler Fidlock Gmbh 69
#4 Carla Recker Continental Reifen Deutschland Gmbh 63
#5 Peter Jax Dolby Laboratories Licensing 58
#6 Florian Keiler Dolby Laboratories Licensing 55
#7 Harald Schiller Thomson Licensing 54
#8 Oliver Wuebbolt Dolby Laboratories Licensing 45
#9 Werner Rudolph Solvay Fluor Und Derivate Gmbh 44
#10 Arnold Fischer Pan American Plant 42
#11 Wolf-Georg Forssmann Pharis Biotec Gmbh 39
#12 Ernst Schroder Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh 38
#12 Sebastian Jäger Arnold Jäger Holding Gmbh 38
#14 Ulrich Behr Continental Reifen Deutschland Gmbh 37
#15 Jens Wildhagen Sony 34
#15 Volkmar Hamacher Advanced Bionics Ag 34
#15 Sami Haddadin Franka Emika Gmbh 34
#15 Rudolf Moller Mannesmann Ag 34
#15 Ingo Koch Johnson Controls Autobatterie Gmbh & Co. Kgaa 34
#20 Peter Streuer Johnson Controls Autobatterie Gmbh & Co. Kgaa 31
#21 Breido Botkus Fidlock Gmbh 30
#21 Torsten Neubauer Basf Se 30
#21 Mark Stemmle Nexans 30
#24 Andreas Hohl Baker Hughes, A Ge Company 28
#25 Philipp Schaefer Konrad Hornschuch Ag 27
#25 Thomas Lenarz Advanced Bionics Ag 27
#27 Peter Decker 26
#27 Nico Meier Continental Reifen Deutschland Gmbh 26
#27 Hanno Homann Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 26
#30 Meinolf Blawat Thomson Licensing 25
#30 Dietmar Anders Hermann Berstorff Maschinenbau Gmbh 25
#30 Hans Buchwald Kali-Chemie 25
#30 Markus Schlosser Thomson Licensing 25
#34 Wolfgang Eisert Dr. Karl Thomae Gmbh 24
#34 Markus Meyer Hoffmann-La Roche 24
#36 Christoph Manusch 23
#36 Hartmut Rosendahl Wabco Gmbh 23
#38 Andreas Köbe Continental Teves Ag & Co. Ohg 22
#38 Horst Zeugner Kali-Chemie Pharma Gmbh 22
#38 Klaus Gaedke Thomson Licensing 22
#38 Johann-Markus Batke Dolby Laboratories Licensing 22
#38 Helge Brenner Clarios Advanced Solutions Gmbh 22
#38 Andrej Schewzow Thomson Licensing 22
#44 Bernhard Mueller Abb Vie 21
#44 Peter W. Thies Kali-Chemie Pharma Gmbh 21
#44 Horst Sergel Continental Ag 21
#44 Gerhard Ruhnau Wabco Gmbh & Co. Ohg. 21
#48 Klaus Bergemann Degussa Ag 20
#48 Klaus Schippl Nexans 20
#50 Philipp Hoffmann IBM 19