Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Oil City, PA ranks #2,957 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,033 patents from 266 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Oil City, PA include Rom Technologies, Netapp, Automed Technologies. That works out to 107.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 266 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Micheal Mueller Rom Technologies 51
2 George Totolos, Jr. Netapp 36
3 James A. Michael Automed Technologies 35
#4 Louis B. Goode Cook Medical Technologies 30
#5 Gerald W. Callan Bayer Healthcare 29
#6 George B. Goodwin Ppg Industries Ohio 26
#7 Gregory S. Wilson Hypertherm 25
#7 Walter R. Eppler Seagate Technology 25
#7 Bryan L. Mackrell Pnc Financial Services Group 25
#10 John J. Anderton Gte Products 19
#11 Thomas C. Richards The Gillette Company 18
#12 Thomas Grassl Giesecke & Devrient Gmbh 17
#12 William R. Frank Ipsco Enterprises 17
#14 Christopher George Stewart Joy Global Underground Mining 16
#14 Charles R. Hickenboth Ppg Industries Ohio 16
#16 Christopher J. Ball Xylem Water Solutions Zelienople 15
#16 John R. Boyles Netapp 15
#18 Michael Seman Honeywell 14
#19 Federico Olivares Velasco 2Nd Skull 12
#20 John Crunick Sigma Instruments Holdings 10
#20 John E. Benasutti Burroughs 10
#20 Guangxin Wang Honeywell 10
#23 Paul Vladuchick Abb Schweiz Ag 9
#23 Henry J. Suwalski Vocollect 9
#23 Charles Marsh Bayer Healthcare 9
#23 Christopher L. Prete Mine Safety Appliances Company 9
#23 Nadeem N. Bunni Caterpillar 9
#23 Dean T. Berkebile Xylem Water Solutions Zelienople 9
#29 James I. Wise Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 8
#29 Justin Travis Cady Netapp 8
#29 Philip M. Thomas Berner International 8
#32 Shlomo Snir Adams Mfg. 7
#33 Carl J. Serman Battelle Memorial Institute 6
#33 Jurie Van Wyk Westinghouse Electric 6
#33 Anne Brumfield Intel 6
#33 Quinton Reed Siemens Mobility Gmbh 6
#33 Michael Schrock Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 6
#33 John R. Beck Dietrich Industries 6
#33 Michael McCumber Sae International 6
#40 Thomas G. Schmelzer Protochips 5
#40 John Brennan Astrazeneca Ab 5
#40 Bahri Ozturk Honeywell 5
#40 Arun Punj Arista Networks 5
#40 Andrew L. Schnitgen Sunoco, Inc. (R&M) 5
#40 David Jeffrey Graham Powercast 5
#40 Robert E. Gunya 5
#40 Jeffrey L. Blood 5
#40 James Louis Rutkowski Unknown 5
#40 Paula Freyer Siemens Westinghouse Power 5
#40 Thomas Kunkel Sommer Allibert-Lignotock Gmbh 5

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