Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

New London, WI ranks #4,682 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 582 patents from 73 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in New London, WI include Simmons Juvenile Products Company, IBM, Illinois Tool Works. That works out to 79.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 73 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Merlin A. Brunner Simmons Juvenile Products Company 122
2 Mark E. Peters IBM 64
3 Robert R. Davidson Illinois Tool Works 57
#4 Michael R. Moore Oshkosh 35
#5 Robert Samuel Schlaupitz Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 28
#6 Alan Adam Manthe Illinois Tool Works 26
#7 Mark Ulrich Illinois Tool Works 25
#8 Bradley C. Squires Oshkosh Truck 20
#9 Angela Ann Johnston Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 18
#10 Clifford E. Baker Tektronix 14
#11 Joseph Gitter Illinois Tool Works 11
#11 Kenneth B. Close Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 11
#13 Allen Raymond Sykes Illinois Tool Works 10
#13 Patrick Allen Batten Proampac Holdings 10
#15 Richard Thomas Wehrle Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 9
#16 Thomas E. Harris V-T Industries 8
#17 Jonathan Kyle Arendt Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 7
#18 Teresa M. Redmann Georgia-Pacific 6
#19 William R. Nichols Infilco Degremont 5
#20 Stephen A. Kolasinski Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 4
#20 Kirk J. Van Dreel 4
#20 Gregory Allen Oberstadt Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 4
#20 Gerald Carl Gebheim Robotis Co. 4
#24 Nancy Jo Myers Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 3
#24 Prerna J. Kvalvik 3
#24 Rodney W. Golla Cp Packaging 3
#24 Brent C. Otis Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 3
#24 Isidora K. Lagos Candle Corporation Of America 3
#24 Henry Theisen Curwood 3
#24 Paul A. Haase Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 3
#24 Gerald C. Bartman Appleton Papers 3
#32 Brian T. Anderson Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#32 Richard L. Wolfrath 2
#32 Michael Herminath 2
#32 Randall L. Stadtmueller Trinova Design 2
#32 Paul Edward Wegner Curwood 2
#32 Gaetan J. Philippon Simmons Juvenile Products Company 2
#32 Marek Parszewski Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#32 Robert Juidici Pierce Manufacturing 2
#32 Kevin Carl Kalies 2
#32 Steven L. Schnasse Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#32 Joe Gitter Illinois Tool Works 2
#32 Chris S. Mussell Bemis Associates 2
#32 Robert Hebel The Vollrath Company, L.L.C. 2
#32 Scott Zaddack Ifs Industries 2
#46 Richard Hutchinson Illinois Tool Works 1
#46 Rodney E. Quint Trilliant Food And Nutrition 1
#46 Michelle April Molenda-Schroth 1
#46 Stephen L. Hirschboeck 1
#46 William R. Stuesser Sara Lee 1

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