Kentucky — Patent Inventors 1997

Top Cities in Kentucky 1997

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Lexington, KY	198	146
#2	Louisville, KY	198	135
#3	Nicholasville, KY	21	18
#4	Crestwood, KY	19	12
#5	Georgetown, KY	16	12
#6	Owensboro, KY	16	10
#7	Ashland, KY	11	9
#8	Burlington, KY	11	6
#9	Prospect, KY	9	9
#10	Edgewood, KY	9	6
#11	Florence, KY	9	8
#12	Versailles, KY	8	8
#13	Richmond, KY	8	5
#14	Winchester, KY	8	7
#15	Covington, KY	8	6
#16	Shelbyville, KY	7	7
#17	Bowling Green, KY	7	6
#18	Russell, KY	6	2
#19	Maysville, KY	6	4
#20	Erlanger, KY	5	3
#21	Morganfield, KY	5	4
#22	Villa Hills, KY	5	4
#23	Elizabethtown, KY	5	5
#24	Taylorsville, KY	5	2
#25	Goshen, KY	5	2

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	John Steele	Owensboro	Pfizer	7
1	Richard H. Bird	Louisville	Porcelain Metals Corporation	7
3	Michael E. Setser	Burlington	Johnson & Johnson	6
3	Dwayne T. Crump	Lexington	IBM	6
#5	Donald T. Payne	Louisville	Porcelain Metals Corporation	5
#5	Ved P. Gakhar	Louisville	Vermont American	5
#7	Olden A. Dockery	Louisville	Porcelain Metals Corporation	4
#7	Alexander Grishin	Louisville	Credo Tool	4
#7	Jonathan M. Katz	Louisville	Vita-Mix	4
#7	Harry L. Nurse, Jr.	Goshen	Unknown	4
#7	David H. Byrley	Louisville	Credo Tool	4
#7	Peter Stewart Davidson, Jr.	Lexington	Lexmark International	4
#7	Kathy L. Bradley	Taylorsville	Porcelain Metals Corporation	4
#7	Manfred W. Schmidt	Louisville	Credo Tool	4
#7	Gary Allen Denton	Lexington	Lexmark International	4
#7	Joseph P. Gallant	Lexington	Osram Sylvania	4
#7	Richard A. Dossett	Louisville	Credo Tool	4
#7	Donald C. Pennington, Jr.	Louisville	Credo Tool	4
#7	Phillip Byron Wright	Lexington	Lexmark International	4
#20	Hubert Beck	Russell	Fichtel & Sachs	3
#20	William P. Hettinger, Jr.	Russell	Ashland Oil	3
#20	David Bingham	Louisville	GE	3
#20	John Edward Dries	Louisville	Haier Us Appliance Solutions	3
#20	John W. Rehfuss	Louisville	Basf Se	3
#20	Donald Wayne Stafford	Lexington	Lexmark International	3