This Ranking has been awarded considering the Filing Year of the Total patents filed by the Inventors from Illinois state of the US, ranging from year 2011 to 2021. We have taken into account the addresses of Inventors from Illinois obtained from the patent applications data sourced from USPTO database.
| Sr No | Inventors | Count of Patents | Affiliations |
| 1 | Jason K Resch | 1021 | Alwaysasking.Com | Global Communications Network Llc | International Business Machines | Cleversafe Inc |
| 2 | Austin Grant Walters | 596 | Vizient Inc | Elevance Health | Unitedhealth Group | Viverae | Steele Consulting Llc |
| 3 | Gary W Grube | 426 | Caerus Institute | Motorola |
| 4 | Vijay Nangia | 332 | Motorola Mobility Inc |
| 5 | Taghi Abad Fardin Abdi | 307 | Tubi | Capital One | Ceb | Bosch North America |
| 6 | Ravi Kuchibhotla | 295 | Motorola |
| 7 | Reza Farivar | 280 | Twilio | Research And Engineering Frontier Labs | University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign | Capital One | Yahoo |
| 8 | Yufei Blankenship | 258 | Ericsson | Huawei | Motorola Mobile Devices |
| 9 | Rachid Mohsen Alameh | 244 | Amazon, Lenovo, First Alert- A Newell Company, Motorola |
| 10 | Leon Oliver Stenneth | 234 | – |
| 11 | Brian Fields | 221 | State Farm |
| 12 | Michael R Vogler | 217 | Thermoflex Corporation | Suncast Corporation |
| 13 | Kurt Wilcox | 191 | Cree Lighting | Cree |
| 14 | Michael Thuma | 185 | – |
| 15 | Alakananda Bhattacharyya | 176 | – |
| 16 | Ravi V Khadiwala | 175 | – |
| 17 | Ajit Nimbalker | 173 | – |
| 18 | Yigang Cai | 168 | Freelance | Nokia Bell Labs | Nokia | Alcatel-Lucent Usa Inc. | Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Innovations | At&T Bell Laboratories | Argonne National Laboratory | Zhejiang University |
| 19 | Robert T Love | 156 | Robert T Love | Motorola Mobility | E-Systems | Texas Instruments |
| 20 | Steven C Cielocha | 150 | Abbott |
| 21 | Mark B Gagner | 149 | – |
| 22 | Aaron Scott Chan | 149 | – |
| 23 | Donald E Weder | 148 | – |
| 24 | Amr Abdelmonem | 145 | Isco International |
| 25 | Philippe Sartori | 136 | Samsung Electronics | Futurewei Technologies | Motorola Labs | Motorola Corporate Research |
| 26 | Hossein Bagheri | 135 | Motorola Mobility | Huawei | University Of Alberta | University Of Waterloo |
| 27 | Michael J Burns | 135 | Burns Consulting Services Llc | Tradingtechnologies International | Exchange Connectivity |
| 28 | Larry J Pacey | 135 | – |
| 29 | Debabrata Pal | 134 | Collins Aerospace | Utc Aerospace Systems | Motorola |
| 30 | Thomas L Floyd | 133 | – |
| 31 | Nathan L Tofte | 131 | – |
| 32 | Kyungyoon Min | 129 | – |
| 33 | Mario Rosario Carlone | 129 | Dupont Pioneer | Garst Seed Compan |
| 34 | Brian Classon | 127 | Futurewei Technologies Inc. | Huawei | Motorola |
| 35 | Shawn M Call | 125 | – |
| 36 | Christopher P Nicholas | 124 | Lakril Technologies | C2P Sciences L3C | Paschall & Associates Llc | Honeywell Uop | Sigma Aldrich |
| 37 | Paul Michael Lesley | 124 | Red Circle Design Inc | Scientific Games | Wms Gaming | Nypro |
| 38 | William J Leise | 123 | – |
| 39 | Marvin Lane | 121 | – |
| 40 | Todd Binion | 120 | State Farm |
| 41 | Blake Konrardy | 119 | Hiroad | Kin Insurance | Stats Llc | Sportio | State Farm | Supplemental Brewing | Sole Owner |
| 42 | Scott F Singer | 118 | Artisan Partners | Wedge Capital Managemen | Wellington Management | Raymond James |
| 43 | Glenn C Lemmers | 118 | – |
| 44 | Scott Farris | 117 | – |
| 45 | Dwayne Boroski | 117 | Thermos L.L.C. |
| 46 | Donald Kyle | 116 | – |
| 47 | Jacob Alt | 114 | – |
| 48 | Murali Narasimha | 114 | – |
| 49 | Kenneth Taylor | 113 | – |
| 50 | Thomas D Wetsch | 110 | Pregis | Insight Promotions Llc | Alcoa |
| 51 | Gregory I Rozman | 110 | Avne | Wpg Americas Inc | Techni-Tool | Rohde & Schwarz | Anadigics |
| 52 | Kristopher Keith Gaudin | 109 | Movinx | Gaudin Ventures Llc | American Family Insurance | State Farm |
| 53 | Joel Jaffe | 109 | Zenith Electronics | Bell And Howell | Wms Gaming |
| 54 | John W Labuszewski | 103 | – |
| 55 | Andrew Guinn | 101 | – |
| 56 | Frederick W Masanek | 101 | – |
| 57 | Jialing Liu | 99 | Futurewei Technologies | Motorola | Garmin International |
| 58 | Kent E Regnier | 98 | Molex |
| 59 | Christopher C Winslade | 98 | Mcandrews Held & Malloy Ltd |
| 60 | Chad A Mirkin | 97 | Northwestern Univesity |
| 61 | Michael Dragonuk | 97 | – |
| 62 | Khalil Amine | 94 | Argonne National Laboratory |
| 63 | Jaime Skaggs | 93 | State Farm |
| 64 | Andrew J Souers | 93 | Abbvie | Abbott |
| 65 | Jackie O Jordan | 93 | – |
| 66 | Ethan S Wozniak | 91 | Ocient | Ibm | Government Accountability Office |
| 67 | Gerald Horn | 90 | Lenz Therapeutics | Breinfuel | Lasikplus (Lca-Vision Inc.) | Eye Therapies | Preferred Solution Therapies | Ocuphire Pharma |
| 68 | Larry W Kiest | 90 | Lmk Pipe Renewal | Lmk Technologies Llc |
| 69 | Chunqing Liu | 88 | Honeywell | University Of Illinois Urbana | Northwestern University |
| 70 | Antonio Facchetti | 85 | Northwestern University | Polyera Corporation |
| 71 | Stanley Joseph Frey | 85 | – |
| 72 | Jiri Slaby | 85 | – |
| 73 | Vipul Desai | 83 | Futurewei Technologies | Motorola |
| 74 | Richard B Silverman | 78 | – |
| 75 | Deng-Yang Jan | 77 | – |
| 76 | Vicki King | 76 | Apria Healthcare | State Farm |
| 77 | Timothy C Loose | 76 | Self-Employed | Scientific Games | Perkinelmer Las | Wms Gaming | Sonoscan |
| 78 | Paolo Palmas | 76 | – |
| 79 | Eric Bellas | 75 | State Farm | Systems Analyst |
| 80 | Dale M Koch | 74 | – |
| 81 | George Calcev | 74 | Futurewei Technologies | Motorola Labs | Control Department University Politechnica Bucharest | |
| 82 | Jason J Stoller | 73 | Precision Planting Agco Corporation | Precision Planting Monsanto | Caterpillar Inc |
| 83 | Michael J Schuster | 73 | Red Door Coffee | 111 Minna Gallery | Blazing Saddles Bike Rentals And Tours | Target | Burke Warren Mackay & Serritella |
| 84 | Masud Bolouri-Saransar | 72 | – |
| 85 | Mark C Hersam | 70 | – |
| 86 | Paul A Bertin | 67 | Grove Biopharma Inc | Elevance Renewable Sciences | Ohmx Corporation |
| 87 | Melinda T Magerkurth | 65 | Country Financia | State Farm | Safeco Insurance | Liberty Mutual Insurance | Normal Cornbelters |
| 88 | Xin X Zhu | 65 | Honeywell Uop | University Of Manchester |
| 89 | Damon E Gura | 64 | – |
| 90 | Jayant Kumar Gorawara | 57 | – |
| 91 | Bussche Kurt M Vanden | 53 | – |
| 92 | Kenneth F Stensrud | 51 | – |
| 93 | Robert L Bedard | 48 | Uop Llc – A Honeywell |
| 94 | Jeremy M Hornik | 45 | – |
| 95 | Jamie W Vann | 43 | Everi Holdings Inc | Strawdog Theatre | Cientific Games – Wms |
| 96 | William P Alberth | 42 | – |
| 97 | Martin D Burke | 41 | Revolution Medicines |
| 98 | Gavin P Towler | 40 | Honeywell Performance Materials And Technologies | Uop | Umist |
| 99 | Todd Swanson | 28 | – |
| 100 | Qiang Cheng | 26 | – |