Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Urbandale, IA ranks #2,284 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,384 patents from 202 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Urbandale, IA include Pioneer (Corteva), John Deere, Zimmer Spine. That works out to 30.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 202 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Matthew David Smalley Pioneer (Corteva) 158
2 Paul A. Stephens Pioneer (Corteva) 135
3 William J. Gordon-Kamm Pioneer (Corteva) 91
#4 Christopher L. Baszczynski Pioneer (Corteva) 32
#4 Dennis L. Bidney Pioneer (Corteva) 32
#6 Pramod B. Mahajan Pioneer (Corteva) 31
#6 Terry EuClaire Meyer Pioneer (Corteva) 31
#8 David A. Payne John Deere 30
#9 David A. Hanson Zimmer Spine 28
#10 Yumin Tao Pioneer (Corteva) 26
#11 Gan-Yuan Zhong Pioneer (Corteva) 24
#12 Jeffrey E. Habben Pioneer (Corteva) 21
#12 Dorman John Grace, III Pioneer (Corteva) 21
#14 Dennis S. Banasiak Phillips Petroleum 20
#14 John Franklin Soper Pioneer (Corteva) 20
#16 Dilbag Multani Pioneer (Corteva) 19
#16 Robert Meegan John Deere 19
#18 Chad C. Fisher E-Lids 18
#18 Jeremy Kroll BOE 18
#20 Leandro Daniel Perugini Pioneer (Corteva) 17
#20 Michael Gerard Jaskiewicz Open Text Sa Ulc 17
#22 Aragula Gururaj Rao Pioneer (Corteva) 16
#23 Keith Roesler Pioneer (Corteva) 13
#23 Kevin Hayes Pioneer (Corteva) 13
#23 Kevin Hahn Elemental Scientific 13
#26 Andy Dwayne Beck John Deere 11
#26 Shai Joshua Lawit Pioneer (Corteva) 11
#26 Lyndon J. Schroeder Pioneer (Corteva) 11
#29 Justin Dalton Rolls-Royce Plc 10
#29 Thomas H. Czapla Pioneer (Corteva) 10
#29 Julian M. Chaky Pioneer (Corteva) 10
#32 James Myers Townsend Engineering 9
#32 Luke Sturgeon John Deere 9
#32 Geny Anthony Corteva Agriscience 9
#35 Trung Lo Deo Stabulum Group 8
#35 William M. Van Zante Pioneer (Corteva) 8
#35 Gina Marie Zastrow-Hayes Pioneer (Corteva) 8
#35 Brandon P. Williams 8
#35 Howard C. Hadley John Deere 8
#35 Robert M. Dykes Townsend Engineering 8
#41 Andrew J. Doxon University Of Utah 7
#41 Timothy Griffith Honeywell 7
#41 John Arbuckle Syngenta Participations Ag 7
#44 Anthony Sikora John Deere 6
#44 Matthew Curtis Harmon E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 6
#44 John Meyer Veran Medical Technologies 6
#44 James K. Pettit Methode Electronics 6
#48 Jon Franklin Davis US Dept of Energy 5
#48 Srdjan Pavelic Aloha 5
#48 Matt Meredith Sweetlabs 5

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