Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Kildeer, IL ranks #2,254 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,401 patents from 103 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Kildeer, IL include Ericsson, Fenwal, Handi-Foil. That works out to 342.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 103 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yufei Blankenship Ericsson 295
2 Kyungyoon Min Fenwal 158
3 Raj Patel Handi-Foil 86
#4 Baoling S. Sheen AT&T 68
#5 Vincent Alesi Custom Accessories 65
#6 Shaowei Pan Lemko 58
#7 Ralf H. Jaeger Cummins-Allison 38
#8 Anthony J. Braskich Arris Enterprises 33
#9 Terry Chung Fenwal 31
#10 Shain-Jer Doong Uop 30
#10 James Snider Skyworks Solutions 30
#12 Kenneth W. Horton Covidien Lp 28
#13 Mark A. Luzbetak Medela Holding Ag 25
#14 Pattabhi K. Raman Greatpoint Energy 24
#15 Lawrence Hodgson Incredible Technologies 23
#16 Nimesh S. Jhaveri Walgreen 21
#17 William Alexander Mecker Weber-Stephen Products 20
#18 Teresa Farias Latter Ameritech 18
#19 Qiaoqiao Ruan Abbott 16
#19 Walter J. Kreiseder Courtesy Mold & Tool 16
#21 Kevin Johnson Omnivision Technologies 15
#21 Yeong-Ching Albert Hong Kraft Foods Group Brands 15
#23 Theodore S. Geiselman Cytyc 14
#24 Sebastian Thalanany United States Cellular 13
#25 Michael E. Iden Union Pacific Railroad 12
#25 Rongkai Zhao Home Depot Product Authority 12
#27 Amin Setoodeh Medline Industries, Lp 11
#27 Grant Anthony Bomgaars Baxter Healthcare Sa 11
#27 Guy Robert Vesto GE 11
#30 Shalabh Kumar Autotech 10
#31 Richard A. Ditton Incredible Technologies 9
#31 George Bayer Schonbeck Worldwide Lighting 9
#33 Robert W. Good White Consolidated Industries 8
#33 Naveen Punati United States Gypsum 8
#33 Michael Finn Coal Industry (Patents) Limited 8
#36 Liangjun Lu Abbott 7
#36 Jessica Wettstein Zih 7
#38 George T. Bayer Alon Group 6
#39 Roland K. Bowler, II Knowles Electronics 5
#39 Stephen Lawrence Ihm Allstate Insurance 5
#39 James Hack Calcomp 5
#39 Carter Michael Armstrong L-3 Communications 5
#43 Mark Randolph Motorola 4
#43 Kozeta C. Topchian Klein Tools 4
#43 David A. Anstett Powernail 4
#43 William M. Wesley Creative Tool 4
#43 Stephen G. Rudisill Cummins-Allison 4
#43 Eugen J. Birkenbach Case Gmbh 4
#49 Craig Carson Zeltiq Aesthetics 3
#49 Paul A. Hosking John Crane 3

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