Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Worthington, OH ranks #1,153 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,898 patents from 449 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Worthington, OH include Ashland Oil, Midmark, Bertec. That works out to 196.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 449 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Anil B. Goel Ashland Oil 129
2 Rainer B. Teufel Midmark 112
2 Necip Berme Bertec 112
#4 David W. Robinson Intuitive Surgical 103
#5 John C. Valcore, Jr. Lam Research 94
#5 Stephen A. Boxwell IBM 94
#7 Jeffrey T. DeBord Midmark 80
#8 Richard Wade Honeywell 58
#9 Ryan Cmich Mtd Products 51
#10 Allan H. Clauer Lsp Technologies 48
#11 David W. Laituri Apple 41
#12 Mark B. Artus Blockbuster Entertainment 40
#13 Bruce A. Gruber Gaf 35
#13 Joshua Michael Broehl 35
#15 Dustin Lee Black & Decker 34
#16 B. Jeremiah Shaffer Pease Industries 27
#16 Tapas Das Abbott 27
#18 Andrew C. Strange Entrotech 26
#19 Warren Baxter Nicholson Delphi Technologies 25
#20 Biau-Hung Chang Quantum Chemical 24
#21 Lloyd E. Hackman Ribbon Technology 22
#21 David E. Slutz GE 22
#23 Daniel B. Mitchell RTX (Raytheon) 21
#24 Prabir K. Dutta Ohio State Innovation Foundation 20
#24 Thomas W. Osip Abbott 20
#24 Ghanshyam Rai Smith International 20
#24 Harold P. Bovenkerk GE 20
#28 Bruce F. Taylor Thermo Electron Web Systems 19
#28 Garfield P. Royer Royer Biomedical 19
#30 James E. Lewis Ashland Oil 18
#30 Yasuko Rikihisa Ohio State University 18
#32 Robert B. Fechter Ashland 17
#32 David A. Friedenberg Battelle Memorial Institute 17
#32 Chad M. Cucksey Battelle Memorial Institute 17
#32 James H. Saunders Battelle Memorial Institute 17
#36 Billy M. Culbertson Ashland Oil 16
#36 Robert E. Maringer Battelle Development 16
#36 Peter Pohl Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 16
#36 Frederick O. Cope Abbott 16
#36 Sasan Ghassab Bertec 16
#36 Richard T. Liu Google 16
#42 Scott Kellicker Wowza Media Systems 15
#42 Kelly Michael Whalen Honda Motor Co. 15
#42 Robert E. Mora Societe Des Produits Nestle S.A. 15
#45 James E. Randall Medtronic 14
#45 Mark McCamish Abbott 14
#45 Peter J. Melling Battelle Memorial Institute 14
#45 David Cerutti GE 14
#45 Karl W. Olson Neoprobe 14
#45 Bret Gould Evriholder Products 14

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