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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Saint Joseph, MI ranks #1,734 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,919 patents from 173 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Saint Joseph, MI include Whirlpool, Crosman, Rapistan Systems Advertising.

Showing 1–50 of 173 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John W. McConnell Whirlpool 251
2 Ameresh B. Viswanathan Whirlpool 86
3 Richard K. Gresens Whirlpool 67
#4 Andrew C. Kubasiak Whirlpool 42
#5 Arun Rajendran Whirlpool 39
#6 James P. Carow Whirlpool 38
#7 Vincent P. Gurubatham Whirlpool 32
#7 Mark L. Herman Whirlpool 32
#9 Michael T. Dalton Whirlpool 31
#9 Roy E. Masters Whirlpool 31
#11 Lorraine L. Achterberg Whirlpool 29
#11 George Wallace Rodrigues Malheiros Crosman 29
#13 Anthony B. Welsh Whirlpool 28
#13 Ricardo N. Schiesser Rapistan Systems Advertising 28
#15 Kurt Werner Whirlpool 27
#15 Bradford Brian Jensen Jenesis International 27
#17 Sathish A. Sundaram Whirlpool 26
#17 Nelson J. Ferragut, II Maytag 26
#19 Christopher John Reinke Bissell Homecare 25
#20 Alvaro Vallejo Noriega Whirlpool 24
#20 Ryan K. Roth Whirlpool 24
#22 Axel Julio Ramm Whirlpool 23
#22 Christoph J. Miller Whirlpool 23
#24 Anne Wessel Whirlpool 22
#24 Nyik Siong Wong Whirlpool 22
#26 Chao-Yi Chen Htc 21
#26 John M. Knight Whirlpool 21
#28 James Hull Whirlpool 20
#28 Joseph T. Ferencevich Whirlpool 20
#30 Robert A. Moss Dwyer Instruments 19
#31 Blayne C. Smith Whirlpool 17
#32 John Joseph Burns Whirlpool 15
#32 Nicholas Leep Whirlpool 15
#34 Aaron P. Bennett Whirlpool 14
#34 Douglas Mikkelsen Whirlpool 14
#34 David W. Carr Whirlpool 14
#34 John M. Hunnell Whirlpool 14
#38 Jacquelyn R. Geda Whirlpool 13
#39 Norman D. Crawford Ausco Products 12
#39 Jason Schneemann Whirlpool 12
#39 Dean L. Tietz Whirlpool 12
#39 Nicholas B. Vaive Whirlpool 12
#39 Brian Wood Atoma International 12
#39 Andrew D. Whipple Whirlpool 12
#39 Scott A. Merkle Maytag 12
#39 Steven Fricke Whirlpool 12
#39 Michael E. Gatt Whirlpool 12
#48 ERIC G. GRISWOLD Whirlpool 11
#48 Matthew Martin Kenneth Hansen Whirlpool 11
#48 Marcus A. Cannon Whirlpool 11

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