Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Vergennes, VT ranks #4,465 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 618 patents from 133 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Vergennes, VT include IBM, Pack Image, Simmonds Precision Products. That works out to 242.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 133 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Richard J. Stevens IBM 166
2 Eric J. White IBM 64
3 George W. Rohrbaugh, III IBM 29
#4 Charles S. Woodruff IBM 28
#5 Orison W. Stone Pack Image 13
#6 Robbie W. Hall Simmonds Precision Products 12
#7 Scott Hardy The Q 8
#7 Charles Kingdon G.S. Blodgett 8
#7 Glenn Rossier General Dynamics-Ots 8
#10 William Petrow Heatwurx 7
#10 Frederick L. Lichtenfels, II Simmonds Precision Products 7
#10 Roger V. Kendall Foodscience 7
#10 James R. Parkinson Simmonds Precision Products 7
#14 Patrick S. Spinney IBM 6
#14 Ben Norris Biotek Instruments 6
#14 Benjamin T. Rule Simmonds Precision Products 6
#17 Richard O. Raymond Country Home Products 5
#17 Wilfried Hansch Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 5
#17 John C. Sodaro Unknown 5
#17 Michael T. Mittag Electrovert 5
#17 Paul B. Bortz Vermont Stove Company 5
#17 Larry Hayes General Dynamics-Ots 5
#17 W. David Pricer 5
#24 David HOCHMANN Otto Bock Healthcare Lp 4
#24 Keith Patrick Darwin Simmonds Precision Products 4
#24 Anne B. Mason University Of British Columbia 4
#24 Michael P. Grace Toyon Research 4
#24 Francis Woytowich IBM 4
#24 Howard T. Barrett IBM 4
#24 Jeffrey I. Finkelstein Mccord Winn Textron 4
#24 Sylvester M. Ellinger Simmonds Precision Products 4
#32 William J. Nestork IBM 3
#32 Kevin B. Ohlson IBM 3
#32 Joel Melnick Simmonds Precision Products 3
#32 Ralph E. Burt Simmonds Precision Products 3
#32 Harold Frederick Clark, Jr. Simmonds Precision Products 3
#32 Jeffrey James Shirer Simmonds Precision Products 3
#32 Md Yeasin Bhuiyan University Of South Carolina 3
#32 Jonathan Wieman Simmonds Precision Products 3
#32 David P. Perrin GE 3
#32 S. Michael Ellinger Simmonds Precision Products 3
#32 Gary Dale Pittman IBM 3
#32 Clarence W. Shonnard Unknown 3
#32 Robert M. Gifford Bti 3
#32 Kurt A. Ramsdale Simmonds Precision Products 3
#46 Francis J. Thornton IBM 2
#46 Christine Whiteside IBM 2
#46 John Barr Worldheart 2
#46 Giselle L. Saulnier Sholler Brown University 2
#46 Jessica L. Bergeron Simmonds Precision Products 2

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