Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wilmington, DE ranks #136 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 20,085 patents from 3,182 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wilmington, DE include E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And, Brunswick, Incyte. That works out to 283.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,182 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark S. Payne E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 164
2 Richard A. Davis Brunswick 158
3 Leo Ernest Manzer E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 154
#4 Velliyur Nott Mallikarjuna Rao E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 115
#5 Liangxing Wu Incyte 111
#6 George Levitt E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 90
#7 Stephen M. Allen E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 88
#8 Che-Hsiung Hsu E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 85
#8 Jeffrey Harwanko Zenith Products 85
#8 Michael K. Aghajanian Lanxide Technology 85
#11 Andrew Edward Feiring E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 84
#11 Daniel D. Friel, Sr. Edgecraft 84
#13 Saverio Carl Falco E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 83
#14 John Edward Gavagan E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 82
#15 George Philip Lahm E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 80
#16 Robert Clayton Wheland E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 76
#17 Wei Song Qualcomm 75
#17 Sean Xiaolu Wang Bwt Property 75
#19 Richard B. Sparks Incyte 73
#20 Anthony J. Kinney E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 70
#21 J. Antoni Rafalski 69
#22 Knut Meyer E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 68
#22 Carl G. Krespan E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 68
#22 Qiong Cheng E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 68
#25 Narendra S. Yadav E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 66
#26 William B. Farnham E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 65
#26 William D. Hitz E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 65
#26 Paul R. Resnick E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 65
#29 Vasantha Nagarajan E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 63
#30 Steven Dale Ittel E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 59
#31 Samuel David Arthur E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 58
#31 Paul J. Gilligan Bristol-Myers Squibb 58
#31 Stacey Shepard Incyte 58
#34 Scott Christopher Jackson E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 57
#35 Jonathan E. Abbott Milwaukee Electric Tool 56
#36 Douglas G. Batt Bristol-Myers Squibb 54
#37 Thomas P. Maduskuie, Jr. Incyte 53
#38 Ruozhi Song Rohm And Haas 52
#39 Dudley W. C. Spencer Denco 51
#40 Michael H. Wood IBM 50
#41 Rafael Herrmann E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 49
#41 Christian Jackson E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 49
#43 William S. Carey Betz Laboratories 48
#43 Hampton E. Forbes, Jr. Westvaco 48
#45 Sudhir S. Kulkarni L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude 47
#45 Christian Peter Lenges E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 47
#45 Randal R. Betz Medos International Sarl 47
#45 Charles J. Molnar Beaver Creek Concepts 47
#49 Abid N. Merchant E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 46
#49 V. N. Mallikarjuna Rao Recot 46

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