Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

South Barrington, IL ranks #3,035 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 999 patents from 84 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in South Barrington, IL include Uop, Google, Honeywell. That works out to 196.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 84 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Paul A. Sechrist Uop 107
2 Michael J. Lombardi Google 72
3 Stephen Yates Honeywell 71
#4 Gerhard H. Weiler Automatic Liquid Packaging 70
#5 Gregory A. Peterson Emerson Electric 50
#6 Harry Disko Marvin Glass & Associates 48
#7 John Edward Buchalo Moshun 38
#8 Gregory A. Hyatt Makino 32
#9 Jerry R. Smerecky Bedloe Industries 31
#10 Mark Bapst Qualcomm 27
#10 Arun Sobti Motorola 27
#12 Harry Bala American Sterilizer 23
#13 Ahmed Farouk SHAABAN Fulcrum Global Technologies 18
#13 Venkat THANDRA Fulcrum Global Technologies 18
#13 Kenneth W. Douros 18
#16 David Jacobs Kemet Electronics 17
#16 Joseph Y. Fang Siemens Medical Solutions Usa 17
#18 Dennis J. Ward Uop 16
#18 Narayanan Alwar Navteq North America 16
#20 Bing Sun Uop 15
#21 Rajendra A. Panchal Motorola 12
#21 Michael Paul Cayley, Sr. Midaco 12
#23 Kirti Shah Architectural Builders Hardware Mfg. 11
#23 Karl W. McCalley Telaction 11
#23 Thomas J. Truty T-Star Industrial Electronics 11
#23 Dye O. Miller A. J. Antunes & 11
#27 Ramarao Gundlapalli Medicine Lodge 10
#27 Douglas J. Wagenaar Siemens Medical Solutions Usa 10
#27 Jim Schultz Guardian Products 10
#30 Theodore Washburn Stratos Lightwave 9
#31 John C. Laugal Motorola 8
#31 Shouhao Wu International Engine Intellectual Property Company 8
#31 Ali Fattahian Entigenlogic 8
#34 Mohammad Mazhar Said Essex Furukawa Magnet Wire Usa 7
#34 Alvin R. Klancnik Serta 7
#34 Zhijun Zhu Beijing Surgerii Technology Co. 7
#37 Darshana R. Panchal 6
#37 James Joseph Fuentes AT&T 6
#39 Srividya G. Subramanyam 5
#39 William S. Suhr 5
#39 Donald G. Panuce Advance Controls 5
#39 Qiuming Leng Hamilton Sundstrand 5
#39 Badri V. Mangalam Bank of America 5
#44 Dino ELIOPULOS 4
#44 James F. Kearney Nortel Networks Limited 4
#44 Iqbal Arshad Google 4
#44 James T. Gibson Flexera Software 4
#48 Sikendar Fidai 3
#48 Anish Doshi Apple 3
#48 Neil Eugene Cox Ameritech 3

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