Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Kansas City, KS ranks #3,427 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 868 patents from 266 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Kansas City, KS include Unknown, Oracle, Garmin. That works out to 5.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 266 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 James L. Surber Unknown 123
2 Carol L. Colrain Oracle 44
3 Brian G. Schoenfish Garmin 32
#4 Jose Alexander Merck 23
#5 Matthew Habiger Sprint Communications 22
#6 Sashi K. Saripalle Eyeverify 20
#7 Mark Stephen Anderson Commonwealth Of Australia 16
#7 Karthik Ramachandran Emc Ip Holding Company 16
#7 Gregory B. Mills Inspired Technologies 16
#10 William Sanders Pfizer 14
#10 Michael Brown University Of Rochester 14
#12 Nael Naguib Zaki North Carolina State University 13
#12 Michael P. Sarras, Jr. University Of Kansas Medical Center 13
#14 Shawn R. Harvill Garmin Switzerland Gmbh 11
#14 Kapil N. Bhalla University Of South Florida 11
#16 Gerald R. Jordan, Jr. Sprint Communications 9
#16 Edward L. Osborne Westvaco 9
#18 James L. Marsh Input/Output 8
#18 Bamdad Pourladian Wireco Worldgroup 8
#20 Ernst Heinen Bayer Healthcare 7
#20 David M. Clack Clack Technologies 7
#20 Aaron Ashley Booth Kansas University Medical Center 7
#23 David M. McDonald Speedline Technologies 6
#23 Sheila Farley Oracle 6
#23 Spencer J. Null Alamo Group 6
#23 Vinay Patel Sensirion Ag 6
#23 Georgia Brown Oracle 6
#28 Richard Carmona Performance Contracting 5
#28 Wayne A. Priest Sor 5
#28 James Ernst Burke 5
#28 Parvin Todd University Of Kansas Medical Center 5
#28 Darrel Newkirk 5
#28 John M. Kenkel Garmin Switzerland Gmbh 5
#28 Calvin Thibodo, Jr. 5
#35 Seth R. Powers Garmin Switzerland Gmbh 4
#35 Jaideepsinh Gohil Sprint Communications 4
#35 Kevin Krizek Oracle 4
#35 Adrianus Geertrudis Wilhelmus Domen Cellerant Therapeutics 4
#35 David Mark Elton Hyland Switzerland Sarl 4
#40 Richard J. Mynster Rm Industries 3
#40 Ralph Myers 3
#40 Toby A Schiel Oracle 3
#40 Michael Allen Mediatek 3
#40 Sam Long 3
#40 Jody Motichka Transportation Ip Holdings 3
#40 Joe Geris Oracle 3
#40 Jacob Geers Oracle 3
#40 Juan David Narvaez Oracle 3
#40 John A. Yost 3
#40 Patrick Carr Vita Inclinata Ip Holdings 3

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