Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Laureldale, PA ranks #5,990 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 419 patents from 57 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Laureldale, PA include Silicon Laboratories, Baldwin Hardware, Victaulic. That works out to 98.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 57 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Donald A. Kerth Silicon Laboratories 74
1 Leslie A. Meck Baldwin Hardware 74
3 William A. Nagle Victaulic 33
#4 Thomas R. Shrout Penn State 27
#5 Robert H. Leonowich AT&T 25
#6 Scott L. Broutin Agere Systems 21
#7 Steven B. Witmer AT&T 18
#8 Kirk B. Ashby AT&T 13
#9 Charles R. Fegley AT&T 12
#10 Donald M. Large Western Electric Company 11
#11 Perry J. Robertson Sandia 8
#12 Jonathan Simon 7
#13 George H. Gerhard, Jr. Whitaker & 5
#13 E. Terry Groff Reading Bakery Systems 5
#13 Ghazi M. Chaoui AT&T 5
#13 Bradford A. Dulmaine Crs Holdings 5
#17 Gregory W. Roth Penn State 4
#17 Palmer D. Smeltz, Jr. AT&T 4
#17 Samuel E. Kurtz American Telephone And Telegraph Company, At&T Technologies 4
#17 Michael D. Wert Bulk Chemicals 4
#17 Kevin Michael Sperlan Hearing Protection 4
#17 Robert Parette Penn State 4
#23 Earl O. Martin Bell Telephone Laboratories 3
#23 Jacquelyn M. Schlessman Rohm And Haas 3
#23 Curtis A. Jack AT&T 3
#23 David Paul Chabinec AT&T 3
#23 Justin Wall Calera 3
#28 Joseph R. Butchko 2
#28 Robert Reinhart Maxtor 2
#28 Christopher E. Sosh Agere Systems 2
#28 John W. Leimgruber Purdue Research Foundation 2
#28 Andrew P. Sabol AT&T 2
#28 Richard J. Starke AT&T 2
#28 William Borda Unknown 2
#35 John R. Kleckner 1
#35 Richard E. Ahrens AT&T 1
#35 Annette M. Stanek-Busch 1
#35 Ronald L. Lapinsky Bell Telephone Laboratories 1
#35 C. Frederick Eben Bethlehem Steel 1
#35 Henry Hefter 1
#35 Kevin E. Lutz, Jr. Dixie Consumer Products 1
#35 Teri Ann Boyer, legal representative Reading Alloys 1
#35 Jaquelyn Schelessman Rohm And Haas 1
#35 Abdiel Rivera 1
#35 Douglas Bodden, Jr. 1
#35 Bambi L. Reinhart 1
#35 Harold A. Brossman, Jr. 1
#35 Billy L. Hill 1
#35 William J. Malriat American Telephone And Telegraph 1
#35 Art Gaspari 1

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