Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Rantoul, IL ranks #2,139 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,488 patents from 340 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Rantoul, IL include Uop, Zenith Electronics, Motorola. That works out to 120.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 340 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Tamotsu Imai Uop 81
2 Gopal K. Srivastava Zenith Electronics 44
3 Nicholas Mischenko Motorola 40
#4 Scott D. Kolasa Illinois Tool Works 39
#5 Gary J. Sgrignoli Zenith Electronics 38
#5 Patrick D. King Flo-Con Systems 38
#7 Jeffrey D. Wallace Inguran 31
#7 James F. McGehee Uop 31
#9 Ismail B. Cetinkaya Uop 29
#10 Edward J. Murphy Desoto 25
#11 Stephen T. Gonczy 23
#12 Michael Kenneth Platt Baxter International 22
#12 Lev Melinyshyn Uresil 22
#14 Douglas A. Nafis Uop 20
#15 Dale A. Trsar Snap-On Incorporated 19
#15 Don B. Carson Uop 19
#17 Mark J. O'Hara Uop 18
#17 Louis Bedell Pharmacia 18
#17 John F. Chmela Ensar 18
#20 Dale Scherl Hill'S Pet Nutrition 17
#20 George R. Winter, III Uop 17
#22 Kenneth F. Streit Geerpres 15
#23 Michael Esposito Hubbell Incorporated 14
#24 Wilbur P. Hutchinson Moore Business Forms 13
#24 Michelle J. Cohn Uop 13
#24 Allan B. Johnson Teledyne Industries 13
#27 Robert J. L. Noe Uop 12
#27 G. Michael Velan Illinois Tool Works 12
#29 Ronald Golden Champion International Corporation Limited 11
#29 Paul J. Brackemeyer Abb Vie 11
#31 Robert Holmes North American Philips 10
#31 Karen R. Tubergen Nalco Chemical 10
#33 George F. Luteri Velsicol Chemical 9
#33 Laura A. Christensen Motorola 9
#33 Fouad Teymour Illinois Institute Of Technology 9
#36 Craig G. Mitchell 3Com 8
#36 Rahul Choudhury Google 8
#36 Thomas McLenithan Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 8
#39 Joseph E. Gaske Desoto 7
#39 Karel Kriz Desoto 7
#39 Gary D. Erickson Motorola 7
#39 Stephen Lai Zenith Electronics 7
#39 Ronald D. Atanus S&C Electric 7
#39 Gary Strahinic Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited 7
#39 Giovanni Bonomi Ingersoll Machine Tools 7
#39 Charles L. Hemler, Jr. Uop 7
#39 Jason Schickerling Credo Technology Group Limited 7
#48 Robert Reisel Federal-Mogul Worldwide 6
#48 Frank C. Howard Illinois Tool Works 6
#48 Arkady Kochman Thermosoft International 6

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