Top Inventors in Kankakee, IL | Patent Leaderboard

Kankakee, IL ranks #7,333 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 314 patents from 83 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Kankakee, IL include Broadcom, Illinois Tool Works, Graphic Packaging International. That works out to 13.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 83 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	David Kruse	Broadcom	53
2	Steven L. Bivens	Illinois Tool Works	39
3	Leonard M. Cooper	Graphic Packaging International	18
#4	Nigel Knight	Illinois Tool Works	15
#5	Robert E. Cook	Oscar Mayer Foods	12
#5	James M. Magnuson	Peddinghaus	12
#7	Robert C. Liu	NVIDIA	10
#8	Paul Reed	United States Gypsum	8
#9	Paul I. Cook	Csl Behring L.L.C.	7
#9	Jim H. Gomez	General Railway Signal	7
#11	Joseph Morin	Delaware Capital Formation	6
#12	Tracy K. Hunt	Henkel Limited	5
#12	Charles J. Cante	General Foods Limited	5
#12	John Lawrence Hughes	NVIDIA	5
#15	Douglas D. Dankel	Roper Holdings	4
#15	George W. Bingley	Garden Way Incorporated	4
#15	Paul O'Connor	—	4
#15	Ray Hubert	Pro Patch Systems	4
#15	Lee R. Herscher	Roper Holdings	4
#20	Douglas Bigler	Csl Behring Ag	3
#20	Edwin L. Morphey	The Quaker Oats	3
#20	Raymond L. Valente	Unknown	3
#20	Richard R. Kleszynski	Aventis Behring L.L.C.	3
#20	Richard L. Weeks	Aventis Behring L.L.C.	3
#20	Sudhish Chandra	NVIDIA	3
#20	Steve Bivens	Illinois Tool Works	3
#27	Eric Simek	Peddinghaus	2
#27	David Ellison	St. Jude Children'S Research Hospital	2
#27	John T. Pederson, JR.	Pittway	2
#27	Hans-Dieter Heimberger	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	2
#27	Thomas M. McCall	Miles	2
#27	Merle Benoit	—	2
#27	James R. Whetsel	Inertia Dynamics	2
#27	Mathew S. Burton	Signode Industrial Group	2
#27	James Cardosi	—	2
#27	John W. Uphoff	Brunswick	2
#27	Luetta M. Peterson	—	2
#27	James Marcukaitis	Siemens Water Technologies	2
#27	Lee Randall	General Foods Limited	2
#27	Juanita Kershaw	—	2
#41	Richard Winston	—	1
#41	Casey Holohan	—	1
#41	Liming Hu	—	1
#41	Gail Wallace	—	1
#41	Gerald G. Hawkins	—	1
#41	Dennis R. Laurent	—	1
#41	Jeff Alix	—	1
#41	Thomas C. Carney	Illinois Tool Works	1
#41	Dennis J. Kallsen	—	1
#41	Carrie Grimsley	The University Of Chicago	1

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