Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Hoboken, NJ ranks #874 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 3,810 patents from 616 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Hoboken, NJ include Qualcomm, Visa, Dell Products. That works out to 63.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 616 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Karl Georg Hampel Qualcomm 341
2 Quan Wang Visa 163
3 Gaurav Chawla Dell Products 157
#4 Thomas M. Sparico Walker Digital 126
#5 Chang Woo Lee Samsung 114
#6 Eric J. Rozner IBM 101
#7 James E. Wicks Sony 61
#8 Giuseppe Riccardi AT&T 58
#9 Jeffrey Steel Cotapaxi Custom Design And Manufacturing 52
#10 Siddharth Ramachandran Ofs Fitel 43
#11 Thomas J. Dooley Helen Of Troy Limited 42
#12 Michael R. Oliver Verizon 39
#13 Aaron Barere Lifecell 38
#13 Feroze Ujjainwalla Merck 38
#15 Stephen Russak Kaz 37
#16 Evan Ackmann Crestron Electronics 36
#17 Kenneth D. Zorovich Propeller 32
#17 Jim Warner The Glad Products 32
#19 Ulrich Iserloh Merck 31
#19 Robert A. Zambias Merck 31
#19 Fateen Sharaby Chicago Mercantile Exchange 31
#19 Joseph Cohen Snow Joe 31
#23 Ho Yin Cheuk Verizon 30
#24 Hans-Detlef Luginsland Degussa Ag 23
#24 Megan Tran Pfizer 23
#24 Karel Marie Joseph Brands Merck 23
#27 Taylor Farris Bank of America 22
#28 Garrett A. Sheffer Biomet Manufacturing 21
#29 Cong Yu Yahoo Holdings 20
#29 Dramane I. Laine Glaxo Group Limited 20
#29 Giuseppe Ateniese Accenture Global Solutions Limited 20
#29 Heather LEE L'Oreal 20
#29 Brendan Walsh Texas Instruments 20
#34 Allison Chin L'Oreal 19
#34 David Fournier Saint-Gobain Glass France 19
#34 Anthony Potin L'Oreal 19
#37 Christopher A. Juillet Richards Mfg. Co., A New Jersey Limited Partnership 18
#38 Brandon Martin Impact Selector International 17
#39 Zohar Karnin Amazon 16
#39 Brandon M. Taoka Merck 16
#39 Erich E. Kunhardt Trustees Of The Stevens Institute Of Technology 16
#42 Donna A. Antonucci American Express 15
#42 Bruce D. Cherksey New York University 15
#42 Julie Casperson Brewer Unity Semiconductor 15
#45 Christian Karl Schultz Stryker European Operations Limited 14
#45 Lincoln Hochberg Meta 14
#45 Kevin Scott Lester Shutterstock 14
#45 Amitabh Bansal Avon Products 14
#45 Scott B. Hoyt Merck 14
#45 Laurence Mailaender AT&T 14

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