Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Muncie, IN ranks #2,918 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,048 patents from 234 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Muncie, IN include Mid-West Metal Products Company, The Kendall Company Lp, Borgwarner. That works out to 16.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 234 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael E. Greene Mid-West Metal Products Company 86
2 Brad Cantwell Mid-West Metal Products Company 78
3 Stew Kerr Mid-West Metal Products Company 62
#4 Terrance L. Jones Mid-West Metal Products Company 42
#5 David J. Nolley Mid-West Metal Products Company 31
#5 John F. Dye The Kendall Company Lp 31
#7 Mark J. Fogelberg Borgwarner 27
#8 William A. Smith Chevron 26
#9 William B. Shearer 23
#10 Alex Creviston Remy Technologies 21
#11 Thomas J. Lanoue Abb Research 19
#12 Nicholas Alan Charipar Purdue Research Foundation 15
#13 James R. Abbott Tennessee Gas Pipeline 14
#14 Clarence A. Meadows General Motors 13
#14 Addison B. Scholes Ball 13
#14 Matthew Patrick Competition Cams 13
#17 Brett M. Beaver Ardagh Glass 12
#17 Eduardo C. Escallon Terronics Development 12
#17 Charles L. Wood Ball 12
#17 William P. Coppin Maxon 12
#21 Schuyler Buck Roche Diagnostics Operations 11
#21 David R. Weilant Borg-Warner Automotive 11
#23 Brian Wayne Johnson Delta Faucet 10
#23 William Robert Speirs, II Datto 10
#25 Brian Duane Clevenger Thomson Licensing 9
#26 Thomas L. Sevier Performance Dynamics 8
#27 Richard A. Wilkinson, Jr. Storage Technology Partners Ii 7
#28 Robert H. Helfst, Jr. Performance Dynamics 6
#28 William L. Walburn Rev-A-Shelf Company 6
#28 Mohammad Behforouz Ball State University 6
#28 Richard A. Cardemon 6
#28 Ramsis S. Girgis Electric Power Research Institute 6
#28 Douglas M. Perry Honeywell 6
#28 Wilbur O. Doud Ball 6
#28 Brad Hanauer Delphi Technologies 6
#28 Richard Wallace Infineon Technologies Ag 6
#37 Mark Douglas Oberly International Truck Intellectual Property Company 5
#37 Gary Don Dannar 5
#37 Joseph Lamirand Ball 5
#37 Megan Jones Ontario Systems 5
#37 Mark Hoyt Surgical Specialties 5
#37 Kerry Jones 5
#37 Patrick L. Thiel Abb Power T&D Company 5
#37 James Wilkinson Sonoco Development 5
#37 Sazzad Mahmud Nasir 5
#46 Loren F. Temple, Jr. Polyone Designed Structures And Solutions 4
#46 David Dodson Robertshaw Controls 4
#46 Donald W. Kelbel Borgwarner 4
#46 Robert L. Seaman Borg-Warner Automotive 4
#46 Michael C. Lewman General Motors 4

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