Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ridgefield, CT ranks #578 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 5,869 patents from 574 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ridgefield, CT include Walker Digital, IBM, Amazon. That works out to 772.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 574 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jay S. Walker Walker Digital 984
2 Jeffrey W. Sleight IBM 289
3 Timothy J. Dalton IBM 175
#4 Matthew John Campagna Amazon 147
#5 Magdalena M. Fincham Walker Digital 141
#6 Pamela A. Nesbitt IBM 137
#7 Andrea Leone-Bay Emisphere Technologies 118
#8 Richard S. Wise IBM 93
#9 Jane M. Shaw IBM 83
#10 Robert L. Wisnieff IBM 75
#11 Michael White Cabot Microelectronics 71
#12 Harry Sewell Asml Holding N.V. 63
#12 John E. Burbank Covidien Lp 63
#14 Bo Yang Prestone Products 61
#15 Timothy A. Brunner IBM 58
#16 Matthias A. Blumrich IBM 55
#17 Gary Gustafson Forma Therapeutics 54
#18 Benjamin G. Lee IBM 47
#18 Daniela White Ppg Industries Ohio 47
#20 David Thomson BOE 46
#20 Taesung Lee IBM 46
#22 Robert L. Kleinberg Schlumberger Technology 44
#22 Donald T. Dolan Pitney Bowes 44
#22 Timothy C. Reiley IBM 44
#25 Brian Peterson IBM 40
#26 Donald S. Kaplan United States Surgical 38
#27 Charles O. Schulz IBM 35
#28 Steven J. Pinkerton Emhart Glass S.A. 34
#29 James T. Rayfield IBM 33
#30 Joshua Friedman Addent 31
#30 Peter Given PepsiCo 31
#32 Paul D. Signorelli Walker Digital 29
#33 Paul Gildersleeve Champion Cooler 28
#33 Rodney A. Kendall IBM 28
#33 Earl Keisling Inertech Ip 28
#33 Thomas R. Puzak 28
#37 Matthias Georg Gottwald Qualcomm 27
#37 Terence A. Kelly BOE 27
#39 Todd H. Becker Scentbridge Holdings 25
#40 Derek Cogan BOE 24
#40 Tatiana Shelekhin Forma Therapeutics 24
#42 Carson C.K. Fincham Charge Fusion Technologies 23
#42 Hans C. Pfeiffer IBM 23
#42 Matthew Denesuk IBM 23
#42 Werner Stickel IBM 23
#42 Eric E. Hartman Medical Instill Technologies 23
#47 Ian Bryant Schlumberger Technology 22
#48 Yosef Krespi Unknown 21
#48 Edward S. Coleman Ullman Devices 21
#48 Xudong Wei BOE 21

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