Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Tampa, FL ranks #232 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 12,805 patents from 2,931 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Tampa, FL include AT&T, The Nielsen Company (Us), Alliance For Sustainable Energy. That works out to 33.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,931 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Robert Bennett AT&T 499
2 Arun Ramaswamy The Nielsen Company (Us) 223
3 Jan Besehanic The Nielsen Company (Us) 120
#4 Daniel Nelson The Nielsen Company (Us) 111
#5 Min Zhang Alliance For Sustainable Energy 109
#5 Said M. Sebti University Of South Florida 109
#7 Michael Clare G.D. Searle 86
#8 James A. Simmons Ranpak 84
#9 Joe Partlow Reliaquest Holdings 77
#10 Colin O'Connor 75
#10 Yao-Sheng Lee Sandisk Technologies 75
#12 Jason Pfeiffer Reliaquest Holdings 73
#12 Charles E. Bucher King Of Fans 73
#14 Roy W. Sanders Foot Innovations 71
#15 Mohamed Eddaoudi King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology 70
#16 Timothy Ganey Vivex Biologics Group 59
#17 Steven J. Splaine The Nielsen Company (Us) 57
#18 Steven G. Toll Ism Saddles 55
#19 Nicholas J. Lawrence H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center And Research Institute 54
#19 David L. Morse Corning Glass Works 54
#21 Erkinjon G. Nazarov Sionex 53
#21 Seth Wardell Iovance Biotherapeutics 53
#23 Kevin N. Sill Intezyne Technologies 49
#24 Yan Shi Bristol-Myers Squibb 48
#25 Dan Nelson The Nielsen Company (Us) 47
#26 Yu Zhang IBM 46
#26 Shekhar Bhansali University Of South Florida 46
#28 Darrin M. Mylet Cfph 44
#29 Don Busby Baxter International 42
#30 Balachander Shankar The Nielsen Company (Us) 41
#31 Sergio Gutierrez Foot Innovations 40
#32 Raghuram Ranganathan The Nielsen Company (Us) 39
#32 Padmanabhan Soundararajan The Nielsen Company (Us) 39
#32 Eugene P. Goldberg University of Florida Foundation 39
#32 John N. Figh, Jr. Vanguard Products Group 39
#32 Dustan Hahn Kinze Manufacturing 39
#37 Jin Q. Cheng University Of South Florida 37
#37 Peter B. Roemer GE 37
#37 Narasimha Reddy Goli The Nielsen Company (Us) 37
#40 Mark A. Flood Allen-Bradley Company 36
#40 Ravi P. Bansal IBM 36
#42 Joseph Edward Semple Corvas International 34
#42 Lawrence T. Hersh GE 34
#42 Andrew Gay Cirkul 34
#42 Umashankar Velusamy Verizon 34
#42 Garrett S. Waggoner Cirkul 34
#47 Jamal Haque Honeywell 33
#47 Keith A. Souders Honeywell 33
#49 Aidas Nasevicius Yorktown Technologies 32
#49 Michael W. Fountain The Liposome Company 32

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