Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ocala, FL ranks #2,201 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,441 patents from 347 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ocala, FL include Qualcomm, Firestone Industrial Products Company, U.S. Nutraceuticals. That works out to 22.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 347 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Lawrence W. Yonge, III Qualcomm 124
2 Scott A. Smith Firestone Industrial Products Company 68
3 Martin Cole 57
#4 W. Stephen Hill U.S. Nutraceuticals 52
#5 Lee Remmers Clairson 50
#6 Richard Williamson Pacesetter 35
#7 Sidney B. Schrum, Jr. Qualcomm 29
#7 Donald L. Wray Usai 29
#9 Joseph K. Ellis Product Design Innovations 28
#10 Arthur Parkhurst Tidi Securement Products 23
#10 William C. Adams, Jr. Harris 23
#12 Stanley J. Kostoff, II Intel 20
#13 Celestino A. Corral Qualcomm 19
#14 Hassan Kaywan Afkhami Qualcomm 18
#15 Gregory Allen Magin Qualcomm 16
#15 Stephen T. Pyles Unknown 16
#17 L. Dean Parks Galderma Holding Sa 15
#17 Jeffrey J. Winter Dayco Products 15
#17 Thomas Haberer Gesellschaft Für Schwerionenforschung Mbh 15
#20 John Richard Nawrocki Clairson 14
#20 Thomas Jones Clairson 14
#22 Robert J. McGuire 13
#22 Charles S. Pearson Dayco Products 13
#24 Stephen Budelsky Haier Us Appliance Solutions 12
#24 Richard L. Reynolds 12
#24 Mike Barnes Boydstun Metal Works 12
#24 Harley J. Pattee Unknown 12
#28 Parker A. Robinson Viasat 11
#29 Charles M. Lewis Dayco Products 10
#29 Francisco Javier Moreno Gaming Partners International 10
#29 William M. Stewart Ford 10
#32 John E. Thelen Flair 9
#33 Vinod Reddy Ballard Power Systems 8
#33 Anthony James Cowan Qualcomm 8
#33 Daniel Wayne Brinton, Jr. Clairson 8
#33 Daniel W. Plawecki 8
#33 Joe Ellis Clmbr1, Llc. 8
#38 Robert S. Wormser General Motors 7
#38 Terence Skiba Dayco Products 7
#38 Brian E. Markwalter Intel 7
#41 Timothy R. Gargrave Qualcomm 6
#41 Bradley Busch Akron Brass 6
#41 John Kevin Liles 6
#41 Michael Louis Mastic 6
#41 Chester D. Szymanski National Starch & Chemical 6
#41 Jose Garcia-Cordero Boston Scientific Scimed 6
#41 Ronald L. Ewers Class 1 6
#48 Faisal Mahmood Shad Qualcomm 5
#48 John D. Boozer 5
#48 Michael McCann Overhead Door 5

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