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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Northfield, OH ranks #7,902 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 281 patents from 75 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Northfield, OH include GE, The Standard Oil, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber. That works out to 79.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 75 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Fangming Du GE 28
2 Anne M. Graham The Standard Oil 25
3 John Stephen Guilford The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 20
#4 Dwight W. Chasar 18
#5 William B. Cook Allen-Bradley Company 13
#6 Nathan William Duxbury Woodpeckers 12
#6 Deborah S. Filla Lubrizol Advanced Materials 12
#8 Dave Bina Fiberstar 10
#9 Kyle E. Neet Rockwell Automation 9
#9 Diane L. Dodson The Scott Fetzer 9
#11 Klaus Fink Merz Pharma Gmbh & Co. Kgaa 8
#12 Wilson Lee 6
#12 Robert J. Miavitz 6
#12 Joseph F. Garran Vanguard Marketing Group 6
#12 Ralph E. Isley The Standard Oil 6
#16 Peter N. Whitworth Channel Products 5
#16 L. Scot Duncan The Regina 5
#16 Stanley D. Smith Morgan Adhesives Company 5
#19 Joshua Buck Rockwell Automation 4
#19 Nathan Cain 7Signal Solutions 4
#21 Charles R. Krejsa Guild International 3
#21 George F. Kub, Jr. Erico International 3
#23 William H. Malone Republic Steel 2
#23 John H. Sudekum 2
#23 Carl Suchovsky Rheem Manufacturing 2
#23 Jerry E. Lassiter Unknown 2
#23 Robert A. Rightmire The Standard Oil 2
#23 Asher Sussman 2
#23 Patrick Morrison RTX (Raytheon) 2
#23 Lisa Kern Rubbermaid Incorporated 2
#23 Michael Tecca, IV The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 2
#23 Cherry Bochman Desa Ip 2
#23 Michael Nestor State Industrial Products 2
#34 Alexander Gabriel Nordson 1
#34 Paul Wojcik 1
#34 James L. O'Kane The Standard Oil 1
#34 Elmer J. Sitter 1
#34 John Topping Her Majesty The Queen In Right Of Canada As Represented By The Minister Of Natual Resources 1
#34 Theodore C. Ptacek 1
#34 Benjamin Iwasevic Hy-Ko Products Company 1
#34 Aaron Dadas 1
#34 Amir Sohrabi Mollayousef 1
#34 Katherine Lynn Martonchik Specialized Bicycle Components 1
#34 Edward Cselle 1
#34 Jerry B. Pausch 1
#34 Matthew A. Baca Combustion Engineering 1
#34 Lonnie L. Collins 1
#34 Andrew J. Hruby Ardac, Incorporated 1
#34 Dwight W. Chaser 1
#34 R. Dirk Taylor Engelhard 1

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