Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lake Bluff, IL ranks #2,571 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,204 patents from 198 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lake Bluff, IL include G.D. Searle, Mattersight, Abbott. That works out to 214.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 198 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Richard M. Weier G.D. Searle 79
2 David Gustafson Mattersight 60
3 Julian Gordon Abbott 55
#4 William H. Cork Fenwal 54
#5 Kelly Conway Mattersight 49
#6 James E. Burgess Medline Industries, Lp 42
#7 Michael E. Kort Abbott 29
#7 Patrick J. Allin Textura 29
#9 Tongmei Li Abb Vie 26
#10 John C. Tanner, II Abbott 22
#11 Bryan L. Hesse The Gillette Company 18
#11 Curt S. Cooper Abbott 18
#11 Fatima Z. Basha Abbott 18
#14 Ramzi F. Sweis Abb Vie 17
#14 Walter W. Sloan Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter 17
#14 Christopher Zachara Shure Acquisition Holdings 17
#17 Shrojalkumar Desai Cardiac Pacemakers 15
#18 Richard N. Gallagher Gallagher Group Limited 14
#18 Tuan A. Elstrom Abbott 14
#18 Regis Charlot 14
#18 Yanbin Lao Abb Vie 14
#22 Minh H. Duong Motorola Mobility 13
#22 Michael Fein Zih 13
#22 Daniel Charhut United Conveyor 13
#22 Adam Petschke Toshiba Medical Systems 13
#26 Craig F. Sampson AT&T 12
#26 Md Faisal Abedin Motorola Mobility 12
#28 James L. Simpson GE 11
#28 Jiahong Wang Abb Vie 11
#30 Kurt Jacobs John Mezzalingua Associates 10
#30 Dennie S. Welch Abb Vie 10
#30 Glynn Russell Ashdown Power Trends 10
#30 Lawton H. Crosby Morley Furniture Spring 10
#30 William L. Grube Maclean-Fogg 10
#30 Gregg W. Walla Compx International 10
#30 Peggy P. Huang Abbott 10
#37 Vasant Ranade Academic Pharmcauticals 9
#37 Zhiguo Bian Vanderbilt University 9
#37 Peter Borowski S. C. Johnson & Son 9
#37 Charles Tseng Baxter Travenol Laboratories 9
#41 Sydney Himmelstein S. Himmelstein & 8
#41 Ryan Jerold Perkofski Shure Acquisition Holdings 8
#41 Rajkumar Conjeevaram Abb Vie 8
#41 Harry G. Rittenhouse Hybritech Incorporated 8
#45 Jeffrey Nelson Stepan 7
#45 Kenneth Marks Hamilton Sundstrand 7
#45 Daniel M. McWhorter The Kendall Company Lp 7
#45 Shau-Zou Lu Celanese Gmbh 7
#49 Adam K. Tilton Nike 6
#49 James Burgess Medline Industries, Lp 6

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