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Patent Leaderboard surfaces the most prolific inventors, companies, and trends across U.S. patents. Built from real USPTO data, it lets you explore who’s actually driving innovation. Search by inventor, company, or domain to see who’s filing, who’s winning, and how the landscape is shifting.
When I was at PayPal we always had a "Patent Leaderboard" outside of my Innovation Lab with the top inventors by city, function, etc. I always wished this existed for ALL the patent holders out there. You can use this to see who is actually driving innovation. So I built Patent Leaderboard using USPTO data to surface:
• top inventors
• company trends
• hidden outliers
I'm curious what people find, especially surprising names or companies that don’t match expectations.
This is a really interesting idea, Mike. I’ve done ML research myself, and one of the hardest parts early on was figuring out where meaningful work was actually happening versus what only looked exciting from the outside.
This feels like it could have a unique use case for founder idea discovery too, beyond the usual pattern of searching
communities or news to see what people are talking about.
Curious what people are using it for so far: research discovery, competitive analysis, finding interesting inventors, or just exploring unexpected trends?
About Patent Leaderboard on Product Hunt
“Ranking over 9 million patent inventors”
Patent Leaderboard was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #116 on the daily leaderboard. Patent Leaderboard surfaces the most prolific inventors, companies, and trends across U.S. patents. Built from real USPTO data, it lets you explore who’s actually driving innovation. Search by inventor, company, or domain to see who’s filing, who’s winning, and how the landscape is shifting.
Patent Leaderboard was featured in Analytics (172k followers), Search (18k followers) and Data Visualization (3.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 18.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Patent Leaderboard?
Patent Leaderboard was hunted by Mike Todasco. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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