Top Inventors in Naperville, IL | Patent Leaderboard

Naperville, IL ranks #165 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 17,102 patents from 3,051 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Naperville, IL include Alcatel Lucent, Futurewei Technologies, Sloan Valve. That works out to 114.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,051 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Yigang Cai	Alcatel Lucent	223
2	Philippe Sartori	Futurewei Technologies	168
3	John R. Wilson	Sloan Valve	144
#4	Michael G. Borchardt	The Glad Products	117
#5	Sandor Nagy	Equistar Chemicals, Lp	115
#6	Ronald A. Nordin	Panduit	113
#7	Frank A. Harwath	Molex	93
#8	Michael Uffner	—	87
#9	Bipin V. Vora	Uop	84
#10	Russell T. Fling	Rca	81
#10	Lu Zhang	Corning Incorporated	81
#12	James P. Ashley	Motorola	80
#13	David L. Brunker	Molex	79
#14	Michael Borella	3Com	77
#15	Lawrence E. Connell	Motorola	72
#16	Asimuddin Kazi	IBM	71
#17	Sunil Chintakindi	Allstate Insurance	70
#18	Shridhar P. Joshi	Wms Gaming	66
#18	Peter J. Dix	Cnh Industrial America	66
#20	Jeffrey L. Allen	Bally Gaming	64
#20	Michael M. Thackeray	Uchicago Argonne	64
#20	Raymond Walden Bennett, III	AT&T	64
#23	Stephen Alan Smith	Solo Cup	63
#24	Carol Shifrin Gruchala	AT&T	61
#24	Anthony R. Metke	—	61
#26	John J. Senetar	Uop	60
#26	Lee M. Chow	AT&T	60
#26	Nancy Book	AT&T	60
#29	Richard C. Younce	Tellabs Operations	57
#29	Christopher S. Johnson	Uchicago Argonne	57
#31	Brian C. Donnelly	Suncast Technologies	55
#32	Jeffrey Bull	Wilton Industries	54
#33	Jasbir S. Gill	Ecolab Usa	53
#33	Zhengcheng Zhang	Uchicago Argonne	53
#33	Pengfei Ma	Caterpillar	53
#36	Ranjeet Gupta	Motorola Mobility	52
#37	Peter Kokayeff	Uop	51
#37	John C. H. Chang	Wallace Computer Services	51
#39	Alfred C. Li	United States Gypsum	50
#40	Jung-Woo Seo	Samsung	49
#40	Richard A. Mazur	Cummins-Allison	49
#40	Bei-Hong Liang	Masonite	49
#40	Patrick J. Walsh	Gogo	49
#44	Shawn D. Noble	Hendrickson Usa, L.L.C.	47
#44	Eric Steven Peyton	Apple	47
#44	George A. Huff, Jr.	Amoco	47
#47	Anthony K. Burrell	Los Alamos National Security	45
#47	Mansoor Ahmed	Chicago Mercantile Exchange	45
#49	Arvind Patel	Molex	44
#49	Bruce A. Keiser	Nalco Company	44

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