Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Plainfield, NJ ranks #3,346 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 896 patents from 175 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Plainfield, NJ include Celanese Gmbh, ExxonMobil, Catalytic Distillation Technologies. That works out to 16.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 175 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gordon Calundann Celanese Gmbh 73
2 Timothy D. Shaffer ExxonMobil 60
3 Abraham P. Gelbein Catalytic Distillation Technologies 41
#4 Conrad P. Dorn Merck 35
#5 Evelyn N. Drake ExxonMobil 33
#6 David W. Riley Pitney Bowes 28
#7 Richard A. Wolf Merrell Pharmaceuticals 27
#8 Kenneth C. Knowlton Wang Laboratories 24
#9 Ira L. Velinsky Sega Enterprises 19
#9 James Norfleet Colgate-Palmolive 19
#11 Grannis S. Johnson Henkel Limited 14
#11 Ann E. DeCamp Merck 14
#11 Angela Dawn Kerekes Merck 14
#14 David J. Babcock Flyback Energy 13
#14 Henry M. O'Bryan, Jr. AT&T 13
#14 Cletus W. Wilkins, Jr. AT&T 13
#17 John R. Costanza Celanese Gmbh 12
#18 George Patrick Watson AT&T 11
#18 Charles Howlett Zimmer Dental 11
#18 Rudolf M. Smaling Arvin Technologies 11
#21 Chester W. Elspass ExxonMobil 10
#21 Edward C. Chenevey Hoechst Celanese 10
#21 Jennifer Seganish Amgen 10
#24 Mara Applebaum L'Oreal 9
#25 Herman L. Marder Church & Dwight Co. 8
#25 Jonas Cleveland University of Pennsylvania 8
#25 Walter Tuvell Juniper Networks 8
#25 Jerome R. Bagley The Boc Group Limited 8
#29 Wadym Jarowenko National Starch & Chemical 7
#29 Clarence V. Hall 7
#29 Bernard A. Weinstein Cfph 7
#29 Roosevelt People AT&T 7
#33 Natasha Dwight Colgate-Palmolive 6
#33 Brian C. Kramer Advanced Technologies And Regenerative Medicine 6
#33 Gafar Lawal Bank of America 6
#33 Mark J. Sebastian Hoffmann-La Roche 6
#33 Frederick W. Walz, Jr. AT&T 6
#33 William R. Heffner AT&T 6
#33 Thomas M. Estok Schering 6
#33 Mary E. Valiant Merck 6
#41 Ireneusz J. Imiolek Therics 5
#41 DAVID ENGLERT Angle Europe Limited 5
#41 Catello Di Martino Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy 5
#41 Linda A. Clark AT&T 5
#41 Joseph Greenman Transfer Print Foils 5
#41 Sherry A. Severnak The Boc Group Limited 5
#41 Darryl L. Brownlow AT&T 5
#41 Gregory M. Durant AT&T 5
#41 Archie L. Hightower Wm. Wrigley Jr. 5
#41 Joseph J. Murawski Princeton Trade & Technology 5

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