Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Highland Park, NJ ranks #1,578 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,137 patents from 409 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Highland Park, NJ include Altria Client Services, ExxonMobil, Colgate-Palmolive. That works out to 141.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 409 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David R. Schiff Altria Client Services 118
2 Doron Levin ExxonMobil 76
3 Takahide Okai Colgate-Palmolive 70
#4 Herman M. Presby AT&T 64
#5 Emmanuel Kanterakis Golden Bridge Technology 56
#6 Yuexin Dong Verizon 40
#7 Shira Pilch Colgate-Palmolive 34
#8 Shoshana L. Posy Bristol-Myers Squibb 33
#9 Fatima Buevich Medtronic 29
#9 Alan M. Schilowitz ExxonMobil 29
#11 Joseph H. Abeles Sarnoff 27
#11 Myrna L. Hagedorn International Flavors & Fragrances 27
#13 Avinoam Kornblit AT&T 21
#13 Samir S. Vaidya Cellco Partnership 21
#15 Rajesh Mahindra Nec Laboratories America 20
#16 Zaev Sharaby 19
#17 Thirumalai Venkatesan Neocera 18
#17 Grigore C. Burdea Bright Cloud International 18
#17 Rong Dong Colgate-Palmolive 18
#17 Guohong Li Sungrow Power Supply Co. 18
#17 Qing Cui Shijiazhuang Chengzhi Yonghua Display Material Co. 18
#17 Richard A. Demmin ExxonMobil 18
#17 Xin Wu Beijing Naura Microelectronics Equipment Co. 18
#24 Kemal M. Karakayali Alcatel Lucent 17
#24 Marc Mermelstein Ofs Fitel 17
#26 Rong-Ting Huang Motorola 16
#26 Donald Valentine, Jr. American Cyanamid 16
#28 David Carman Bally Gaming 15
#28 Saul Daniel Fishman AT&T 15
#28 Clayton J. Pipkin New Audio 15
#31 Eugene J. Rosenthal AT&T 14
#31 Steve Mark Phillips Colgate-Palmolive 14
#33 Max J. Wisotsky ExxonMobil 13
#33 Marija Heibel Colgate-Palmolive 13
#35 Suzie Chen Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 12
#35 Sanjeev Khanna AT&T 12
#35 Fred G. Schreiber 12
#35 Chia-Shun Lee Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 12
#35 Barry Jacobs Credo Technology Group Limited 12
#35 Khaled Assaleh Motorola 12
#35 Muhammad Hussain 12
#42 Zahid Hussain Merck 11
#42 Sholom M. Weiss IBM 11
#42 Darren A. Kall AT&T 11
#42 Yi Wang Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 11
#42 Victor Stepanov US Army 11
#42 Refika Isil Pakunlu Dr. Reddy'S Laboratories Limited 11
#48 Yu Fan Bristol-Myers Squibb 10
#48 Kenan Yunlu Rhodia Rare Earths 10
#48 Bernhard Firner NVIDIA 10

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