Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Whippany, NJ ranks #2,712 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,136 patents from 163 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Whippany, NJ include Nokia Technologies Oy, Nabisco Brands, Hoechst Roussel Pharmaceuticals. That works out to 128.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 163 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Frank Mares 68
2 Suresh P. Nair Nokia Technologies Oy 65
3 John W. Finley Nabisco Brands 57
#4 Helen H. Ong Hoechst Roussel Pharmaceuticals 51
#5 Sheldon Kavesh Allied Consulting 50
#6 Michael Nally Sportcraft 42
#7 David M. Poticny All Purpose Networks 39
#8 Bharat Jani Intercontinental Great Brands 38
#9 Li-Ying Yang Building Materials Investment 36
#10 Raymond Protasiewicz West Pharmaceutical Services 35
#11 Yeon-Jun Kim AT&T 30
#12 Milorad M. Rogic Allied Consulting 28
#13 Vinay M. Girijavallabhan Merck 23
#14 Frances Jiang AT&T 19
#15 Yi-Heng Chen Merck 18
#16 Jeonghan Park Merck 17
#17 James F. Long Motorola 16
#18 Ningsheng Zhu Crestron Electronics 15
#19 Min K. Park Merck 14
#19 Kenneth Lin Avery Dennison 14
#21 Richard J. LaManna National Business Systems 13
#21 Deborah A. Lyzenga Intercontinental Great Brands 13
#21 Arthur R. DiNicolantonio ExxonMobil 13
#24 Byron Hua Chen AT&T 11
#24 Josef Ocenasek Andrew 11
#24 Francis Amoako-Poku Intercontinental Great Brands 11
#27 Anil K. Trehan Commscope, Inc. Of North Carolina 10
#28 Sureshbabu P. Nair Alcatel Lucent 8
#28 Miles Van Niekerk Intercontinental Great Brands 8
#28 Drew LaMarca Automatic Switch 8
#28 Xiaoling Lu Bristol-Myers Squibb 8
#28 Thomas S. Lin Dow Global Technologies 8
#28 Susan Pettigrew Intercontinental Great Brands 8
#34 Richard J. Lisco AT&T 7
#34 Doris Tancredi Intercontinental Great Brands 7
#34 Chang H. Kim AT&T 7
#34 Gregory Weston Terpay 7
#34 Daewon Kwon Veeco Instruments 7
#34 Anna A. Gripp Isp Van Dyk 7
#34 William J. Brorein Gk Technologies 7
#41 Leon Klafter AT&T 6
#41 Jean Merrill Aventis Pharmaceuticals 6
#41 Mahmoud R. Sherif Alcatel Lucent 6
#41 Bernard Quennessen Coty 6
#41 Leonard B. Ryder 6
#46 Manfred R. Laidig The Singer Company Limited 5
#46 Donald F. Stewart 5
#46 Dimitri Shishkin Instrumentation Laboratory 5
#46 Tara Lynn Alvarez New Jersey Institute Of Technology 5
#46 Axel Hallo De Wolf 5

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