Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Middleton, WI ranks #900 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 3,678 patents from 564 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Middleton, WI include WARF, Exact Sciences, Google. That works out to 168.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 564 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Xudong Wang WARF 106
2 Hatim Allawi Exact Sciences 101
3 Andrew Everett Phelps Google 96
#4 Kevin R. Colwell Ultratec 89
#4 Nicholas Abbott WARF 89
#6 Yoshihiro Kawaoka WARF 69
#7 Tiffany Potter Spectrum Brands 64
#7 James Hagstrom Mirus Bio 64
#9 Michael J. Domanico Exact Sciences 63
#10 David Lynn WARF 58
#11 Gregory van Eyk Spectrum Brands 57
#12 Zhenqiang Ma WARF 54
#12 Randall Scott Koplin Dexcom 54
#14 Thomas Nikita Krupenkin Alcatel Lucent 47
#15 Tao Pei Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals 44
#16 Yang Cheng Cavh 42
#17 Scott B. Reeder WARF 41
#18 Anand Raghavan Skyworks Solutions 40
#19 Andrew P. Block Fiskars Brands 38
#20 Joshua J. Coon WARF 36
#21 Daniel Colin Ludois WARF 35
#22 Stephanie Hullverson Spectrum Brands 33
#22 Vladimir Trubetskoy Mirus Bio 33
#24 James P. Light, II Exact Sciences 32
#24 Michael Scott Arnold WARF 32
#26 Zheng Xia Abs Global 31
#27 Michael Pawlak Bayer Technology Services Gmbh 30
#27 Jon S. Thorson WARF 30
#29 Richard A. Anderson WARF 29
#29 Elizabeth Woods Virent 29
#31 Mark Edward Miller The Chamberlain Group 27
#32 Helen E. Blackwell WARF 25
#33 David R. James James Industries 24
#33 Shaoqin Gong WARF 24
#35 Roger D. Durst Bruker Axs Gmbh 22
#35 Andrew J. Boydston University Of Washington 22
#35 Timothy James Donohue WARF 22
#35 Allyse McCann Spectrum Brands 22
#35 Brett Mueller Mueller Sports Medicine 22
#40 Kevin Christopher Possell Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 21
#41 George W. Huber WARF 20
#42 Robert Schneider Soft Switching Technologies 19
#42 Kenneth Barton Monsanto Technology 19
#44 Gregory T. Bleck Catalent Pharma Solutions 18
#44 Robert Q. Tham Ohmeda 18
#46 Paul Schneider J.L. Clark 17
#47 Michael Rosenblatt Merck 16
#47 Thad G. Walker 16
#49 Wesley A. Cox-Muranami Illumina 15
#49 Jeremiah A. Heilman Energy Focus 15

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