Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Kirkwood, MO ranks #2,346 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,340 patents from 290 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Kirkwood, MO include Pharmacia, Emerson Electric, Carondelet Foundry. That works out to 45.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 290 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Melvin L. Rueppel Pharmacia 56
2 William P. Butler Emerson Electric 34
3 John H. Culling Carondelet Foundry 31
3 John P. Chupp 31
3 Susan L. Hockerman Aclaris Therapeutics 31
#6 Bruce C. Hamper 30
#7 John E. Franz 27
#8 David Hugh Williams Conquer Your Addiction 26
#9 Kenneth A. Francis Midwest Motorcycle Supply Distributors 25
#10 Bartholomew L. Toth Emerson Electric 23
#11 John H. Johnson 22
#11 Elysia K. Krieger Monsanto Technology 22
#11 David R. Eaton Monsanto Technology 22
#11 Dennis J. Malfer Ethyl 22
#15 Thomas J. Bellos Petrolite 21
#16 Daniel A. Terpstra Emerson Electric 19
#16 Susan J. Hartmann G.D. Searle 19
#18 Michael E. Bisch Covidien Lp 18
#19 Merry B. McLaird Divergence 17
#20 Allen Boldt Watlow Electric Manufacturing 15
#21 Adam Williams Aventura Hq 14
#22 Edmund F. Perozzi Ethyl Petroleum Additives 13
#22 John Pfeifer Fiskars 13
#22 Caimei Lu Tsg Technologies 13
#22 David J. Hunt International Computers Limited 13
#26 Joseph P. O'Brien Edwin Cooper 12
#26 Michael James Justin Biomerieux 12
#26 James H. Garrard Ingalls Engineering Company 12
#29 Andrew Schlote Innovator Energy Llc. 11
#29 Daniel Barrett Block 11
#31 James M. Lucas Milchem Incorporated 10
#31 Lowell R. Smith 10
#31 Kristin Arnold Mutual Pharmaceutical Company 10
#31 Trung Q. Do 10
#31 Paul J. Loida Monsanto Technology 10
#31 Virgil Matthew Willcut Elekta Limited 10
#31 Brad Stengel Elira 10
#31 Leane Darnold Roho 10
#39 Steve Hutchison Chevron 9
#39 Eric Martens The Boeing 9
#39 Andrew Butler Oregon Health & Science University 9
#39 John Edwin TAVIS Saint Louis University 9
#39 Neil Kizer Zimmer 9
#44 Robert J. Schreiber The Boeing 8
#44 Christopher H. Swallow The Boeing 8
#46 Thomas J. Cleary Cambridge Engineering 7
#46 Eugene P. Reinhold 7
#46 John A. Houbion 7
#46 Daniel M. Stout Whitmine Research Laboratories 7
#46 Christopher Kent Arnatt Saint Louis University 7

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