Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Reading, PA ranks #1,824 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,819 patents from 514 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Reading, PA include Silicon Laboratories, Wonderland Nurserygoods Company Limited, General Battery. That works out to 19.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 514 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Navdeep S. Sooch Silicon Laboratories 80
2 Curtis M. Hartenstine Wonderland Nurserygoods Company Limited 64
3 William J. Eberle General Battery 46
#4 Ann C. L. Savoca Air Products And Chemicals 31
#5 Robert T. Pike Graco Children'S Products 27
#6 Milton L. Embree AT&T 23
#7 Rolin W. Sugg Baldwin Hardware 22
#7 John Lehn Baldwin Hardware 22
#9 James William Sears GE 18
#9 George Francis Gross, Jr. AT&T 18
#9 Paul C. Davis AT&T 18
#12 Philip C. Ellis Baldwin Hardware 17
#12 Richard P. Haley Morton International 17
#12 Keith Eugene Hollenbach Agere Systems 17
#15 Adam Smye-Rumsby IBM 16
#15 Paul L. Frankhouser Actuated Medical 16
#17 Theodore Kosa Crs Holdings 15
#17 Justin Bendigo Biorez 15
#17 Glenn D. Correll Morton International 15
#20 Stephen A. Costantino Oxane Materials 14
#20 Jerome Drobinski Simplicity 14
#20 James Rinker Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 14
#23 Baku Kakuda Graco Children'S Products 13
#23 Joseph J. Kozlowski Morton International 13
#23 Du Wen 13
#23 Joseph H. Havens Agere Systems Guardian 13
#27 John H. Magee, Jr. Crs Holdings 12
#27 Anthony James Buser Makerbot Industries 12
#27 Richard Martin Palmer Design Blue 12
#27 Gregory J. Del Corso Crs Holdings 12
#27 Frank Brennan International 12
#27 Geoffrey K. Sigworth Kb Alloys 12
#33 Edward G. Nicholl Rohm And Haas 11
#33 Brian Dale Potteiger AT&T 11
#33 John Fangman Cisco 11
#36 William L. Rocco Incyte 10
#36 Terry A. DeBold Carpenter Technology 10
#36 Mark S. Schlosser Bell Industries 10
#36 Shawn Cox Globus Medical 10
#36 Mark Trafford Lsi 10
#41 David H. Foster Deep Photonics 9
#41 John S. Rizzo AT&T 9
#41 Mark Cruz The Glad Products 9
#41 Carryll A. Seelig Rohm And Haas 9
#41 Phillip C. Ellis Baldwin Hardware 9
#41 William J. Burns 9
#41 Brian Edwards Brentwood Industries 9
#41 T. Daniel Hawk Ply Gem Industries 9
#49 H. Taylor Lamborn Silberline Manufacturing Co. 8
#49 Michael T. Hammer Marsulex Environmental Technologies 8

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