Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Tenafly, NJ ranks #1,650 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,016 patents from 303 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Tenafly, NJ include Jw Pet Company, IBM, Playtex Products. That works out to 130.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 303 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jonathan Willinger Jw Pet Company 144
2 Bulent Abali IBM 115
3 Mario Turchi Playtex Products 84
#4 Paul Lacotta Helen Of Troy Limited 60
#5 Ophir Kretzer-Katzir Varonis Systems 59
#6 Alexandros Eleftheriadis Vidyo 58
#7 Scott Salmon Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics 57
#8 Uma Santhanam Avon Products 55
#9 Shai Policker Endostim 47
#9 Barak Feldman Jbf Interlude 2009 47
#11 Chang Hwan Choi Samsung 46
#12 Milton H. Hernandez IBM 33
#13 William Stern Unigene Laboratories 31
#14 Carl G. Reed Whitaker & 23
#14 Frederic L. Lizzi Riverside Research Institute 23
#14 Donald Florczak Crestron Electronics 23
#14 Daniel Jackson Intel 23
#18 Alan C. West Columbia University 22
#19 Irving I. Dardik Lifewaves International 21
#20 Jesse A. Chertoff Elc Management 20
#21 Michael Charles Cirigliano Lipton, Division Of Conopco 19
#21 Daniel Dongyuel Lee Samsung 19
#23 Nicholas J. Turro Columbia University 17
#23 Susan L. Barker Becton, Dickinson And 17
#23 William Weisz The Singer Company Limited 17
#23 Daqing Gu Mitsubishi Electric 17
#27 Dimitris Anastassiou Columbia University 16
#27 Minchen Chien Columbia University 16
#27 David R. Crotzer Thomas & Betts International 16
#27 Dorian Goldfeld Securerf 16
#31 Richard Dratler Omnitek Partners 15
#32 Steven C. Udwin Enor 14
#32 Chen Li Bristol-Myers Squibb 14
#32 Ronald A. Lehman Warsaw Orthopedic 14
#32 Andrea Alu University Of Texas System 14
#36 Iris Anshel Securerf 13
#36 Joon Seong Park Humax Co. 13
#36 Eon Soo Lee Samsung 13
#36 Shi Du Yan Columbia University 13
#40 Richard B. Gerstman Nabisco Brands 12
#40 Joel Vidal Google 12
#40 Josef Wodeslavsky 12
#40 Lawrence A. Haff Perkinelmer 12
#40 Shiri Nawrocki Colgate-Palmolive 12
#45 Arthur Nusbaum Unknown 11
#45 Sankar Basu IBM 11
#45 Gerald M. Halpern ExxonMobil 11
#48 Howard Scher Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 10
#48 David Tarica Enor 10
#48 Yuri Kolesnikov Citrix Systems 10

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