Top Inventors in Northfield, IL | Patent Leaderboard

Northfield, IL ranks #5,942 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 424 patents from 110 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Northfield, IL include Allstate Insurance, Northwestern University, Papermasters. That works out to 73.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 110 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Kurt M. Stricker	Allstate Insurance	41
2	Joseph T. Hupp	Northwestern University	31
3	John K. Volkert	Papermasters	25
#4	Scott Yu-Fan Chu	Integrated Device Technology	20
#5	John G Louis	—	15
#6	Robert Knight	Cohesionib	14
#7	Michael M. Shulski	Wm. Wrigley Jr.	13
#8	Robert Adler	Elo Touchsystems	12
#8	Henry P. Glass	Unknown	12
#10	David E. Detlefsen	Bally Gaming	10
#10	Valentine Hechler, IV	Unknown	10
#12	Ronald L. Schultz	GE	7
#12	Srinivas Chari	IBM	7
#12	Victor Viner	V2 Fitness	7
#12	Stephen M. Collins	Clearwater Holdings	7
#12	Leo P. Niemiec	Lawnware Products	7
#17	Arun Kousik	Medline Industries, Lp	6
#17	Edward H. Ruff	Santa'S Best	6
#17	Andrew M. Volkert	Volkert	6
#20	Sho Chen	Sabratek	5
#20	Lewis J. Milton	Motorola	5
#20	Deborah Zelinsky	Unknown	5
#20	Jon D. Poulos	—	5
#20	Suzy Zeng	—	5
#25	Catherine S. Thomas	Chicagoland Grows	4
#25	Larry Allen	Thermogen	4
#25	Xiang PAN	City University Of Hong Kong	4
#25	Norbert L. Cwik	Quake Industries	4
#25	Srdjan Mirkovic	Decima Spine	4
#25	Rhett R. Dennerline	—	4
#31	John Coulter	Aeg Westinghouse Transportation Systems	3
#31	Gary W. Hardesty	S&C Electric	3
#31	Eli Charles Share	Robert Bosch Tool	3
#31	Frank J. Charhut	—	3
#31	William Shelley	—	3
#31	Robert B. Pfannkuch	Bell And Howell	3
#31	Howard Downs	Cognizant Trizetto Software Group	3
#31	Lois R. Sherry	Abbott	3
#31	Louis Weber	Publication International	3
#31	Dogan Civgin	Allstate Insurance	3
#41	Morton Goldsholl	—	2
#41	Byron A. Denenberg	—	2
#41	Xiuguang A. Guo	Cargill, Incorporated	2
#41	Thomas Bolling	—	2
#41	Jonathan Mohandessi	Stepan	2
#41	Susan B. Findlay	—	2
#41	Ahmet Baris Taser	Blackhawk Network	2
#41	Judson F. Stone	—	2
#41	Porter T. McCauley	Cole-Parmer Instrument Company	2
#41	Walter Glass	American Louver	2

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