Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wilkinsburg, PA ranks #4,692 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 580 patents from 120 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wilkinsburg, PA include Showa Denko K.K., Westinghouse Electric, Northrop Grumman. That works out to 40.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 120 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Toshio Morita Showa Denko K.K. 41
2 Kenneth C. Radford Westinghouse Electric 33
3 Deborah P. Partlow Northrop Grumman 24
#4 Alan H. Cookson Westinghouse Electric 20
#5 Arnold H. Zlotnik Pestco 19
#5 Dirk John VandenBerg, III Cellomics 19
#7 Zoltan K. Kun Westinghouse Electric 17
#8 Daniel L. Meier Ebara Solar 15
#8 Thomas V. Congedo Westinghouse Electric 15
#10 Geoffrey M. Smith Westinghouse Electric 13
#10 Morgan Culbertson Hyliion 13
#10 Ronald M. Blaushild Westinghouse Electric 13
#13 Ralph W. Tolino Westinghouse Electric 12
#13 Thomas J. Burg Aeg Westinghouse Transportation Systems 12
#13 Mark Kraus Microsoft 12
#16 William E. Schmitz Westinghouse Electric 9
#16 Barry R. Rossing M Cubed Technologies 9
#16 Samuel Cerni Westinghouse Electric 9
#16 Raymond G. Seidensticker Westinghouse Electric 9
#20 Lymperios N. Yannopoulos Westinghouse Electric 8
#21 Lawrence J. Zana Westinghouse Electric 7
#21 Richard D. Blaugher Midwest Research Institute 7
#21 L. Ike Ezekoye Westinghouse Electric 7
#21 Joseph A. Battaglia Westinghouse Electric 7
#21 Paul R. Malmberg Advantech Global 7
#21 Douglas M. Mattox US Air Force 7
#27 Salvador H. Talisa Northrop Grumman 6
#27 Brian Joy Reed IBM 6
#27 Daniel Abeshouse Ariba 6
#27 Joseph J. Zelezniak Bayer Healthcare 6
#27 Milton Zlotnik Pestco 6
#32 David W. Scherbarth Westinghouse Electric 5
#32 Walter J. Dollard Westinghouse Electric 5
#32 Edward J. Vidt Westinghouse Electric 5
#32 Fred Kirschensteiner Westinghouse Electric 5
#32 John D. Echols Westinghouse Electric 5
#32 Pamela M. Maynard Westinghouse Electric 5
#32 Francis S. McKendree Westinghouse Electric 5
#32 John B. Lipchak Westinghouse Electric 5
#40 M. Elise Hyland Aluminum Company Of America 4
#40 Jeffrey Thomas Colvard Oracle 4
#40 Donald R. Thornburg Westinghouse Electric 4
#40 Clifton G. Slater Westinghouse Electric 4
#40 Roger Daugherty Reliance Electric Technologies 4
#45 George W. Nagel Westinghouse Electric 3
#45 Avelino J. Gonzalez Westinghouse Electric 3
#45 Raj Gopal Westinghouse Electric 3
#45 Michael J. Asztalos Westinghouse Electric 3
#45 Richard L. Hundstad Westinghouse Electric 3
#45 Katherine M. Andrews US Dept of Energy 3

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