Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sunrise, FL ranks #560 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,076 patents from 1,476 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sunrise, FL include Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Bolton Medical. That works out to 62.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,476 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hiroshi Kawashima Mitsubishi Electric 147
2 Scott H. Richards Motorola 98
3 Samuel Arbefeuille Bolton Medical 59
3 Jacek Korec Texas Instruments 59
#5 Barry W. Herold Motorola 58
#6 Craig Wadin Xm Satellite Radio 55
#7 Karl F. Mueller Ciba-Geigy 53
#8 Sivakumar Muthuswamy Motorola 48
#9 Humberto Berra Bolton Medical 44
#10 Yadunandana N. Rao 43
#11 Jacob Fast Fast Industries 41
#12 Steven D. Pratt Motorola 40
#13 Timothy J. Fischer Tripath Imaging 39
#14 LanTing L. Garra 36
#15 Tracy L. Fulghum Ericsson 34
#15 Giorgi Bit-Babik 34
#17 Robert J. Higgins, Jr. Motorola 33
#18 Morris A. Moore Motorola 32
#18 Shervin Sabripour 32
#20 David F. Willard Motorola 31
#21 Harold Scot Goradesky A.G. Findings & Mfg. 30
#22 Robert B. Ford Motorola 29
#23 Ronald R. Tuttle Trega Biosciences 28
#24 Donald W. Burnette Motorola 27
#25 Darrell J. Stogner Motorola 26
#25 Wojciech Jan Walecki Applejack 199 26
#25 Timothy Lostetter Bolton Medical 26
#25 Viorel Luminosu Whirlpool 26
#29 Nandakishore A. Albal Motorola 25
#29 David H. Karl Motorola 25
#29 Michael J. Berardi Blue Gentian 25
#29 Gerry Ouellette Bolton Medical 25
#29 Mark Chambers Broadcom 25
#29 Linden A. deCarmo Oak Technology 25
#35 John C. Canning Bolton Medical 24
#36 Peter B. Gilmore 23
#36 Darrell Davis Motorola 23
#36 Priya Prasad 23
#36 Robert Rex Burnett Shell Oil Compny 23
#40 Rudy Yorio Motorola 22
#40 Jacob Fast Unknown 22
#42 John B. Preston 21
#42 Alan Flum Sony 21
#42 Philip P. Macnak Motorola 21
#45 Yariv Alima Atmos Nation 20
#45 Timothy Wade Perez Mako Surgical 20
#47 Scott Nortman Mako Surgical 19
#47 Scott A. Olson Motorola 19
#47 Patrick J. Doran Motorola 19
#47 Brett Gavagni IBM 19

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