Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Melbourne, FL ranks #593 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 5,727 patents from 1,077 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Melbourne, FL include Harris, GE, Freedom Scientific. That works out to 67.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,077 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 James D. Beasom Harris 123
2 Jared Klineman Cooper GE 119
3 Mark Rahmes Harris 77
#4 Lawrence W. Shacklette Harris 75
#5 Michael Goldenberg Freedom Scientific 70
#6 David Michael Peltz GE 64
#7 Mark Bradshaw Kraeling GE 63
#8 Keith Andrew Olds Motorola 60
#9 Matthew D. Summer Harris 54
#10 Todd William Goodermuth GE 53
#11 Michael R. Lange Harris 50
#11 Donald K. Belcher Harris 50
#13 Mark A. Trautman Harris 49
#14 Edward R. Beadle Harris 46
#15 Nazim Z. Muradov University Of Central Florida 44
#16 Teck Hu Alcatel Lucent 43
#17 Robert James Foy GE 41
#18 David K. Campbell HP 40
#19 Michael F. Finch GE 39
#20 Eric Gelman E&T Horizons Limited Liability 38
#20 Louis Joseph Rendek, Jr. Harris 38
#20 Jason Thompson Thompson Brothers & Company 38
#23 Rainer Meinke Advanced Magnet Lab 37
#24 Jack H. Linn Harris 36
#25 William R. Palmer Harris 35
#25 William L. Miller Steelcase Development 35
#27 David Allen Eldredge GE 34
#27 Matthew Regan Lighting Science Group 34
#29 Paul A. Tornatta, Jr. Skycross Co. 32
#29 Shawn H. Gallagher Harris 32
#31 Thomas Jay Billhartz Harris 29
#32 Li Chen Skycross Co. 28
#33 Ricardo Romeu Lighting Science Group 25
#33 George V. Rouse Harris 25
#33 Christopher Snyder Ipr Licensing 25
#33 Steven Andrew Kellner GE 25
#33 Dwight D. Back Mainstream Engineering 25
#38 Jeffrey M. Kapatoes Tomotherapy Incorporated 24
#38 Mitchell Scott Wills GE 24
#38 Randolph Cruz Intersil Americas 24
#38 John T. Gasner Intersil Americas 24
#42 Charles M. White Thomson Consumer Electronics 23
#42 Joseph M. Ross Walbro 23
#42 Ronald D. Jones Phillips Petroleum 23
#42 Valerie A. Bastien Lighting Science Group 23
#46 William S. Bowman Tomahawk Robotics 22
#46 Antonio V. Bacarella Litton Systems 22
#46 Viraraghavan S. Kumar Teknocraft 22
#46 George Bajor Harris 22
#46 William Cherrick Schoonmaker GE 22

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