South Carolina — Patent Inventors 1997

Top Cities in South Carolina 1997

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Greenville, SC	74	52
#2	Columbia, SC	64	49
#3	Anderson, SC	61	40
#4	Spartanburg, SC	60	44
#5	Greer, SC	57	48
#6	Simpsonville, SC	55	37
#7	Charleston, SC	50	38
#8	Florence, SC	38	28
#9	Easley, SC	31	25
#10	Rock Hill, SC	24	20
#11	Aiken, SC	20	16
#12	Fort Mill, SC	18	11
#13	Taylors, SC	17	12
#14	Mauldin, SC	15	12
#15	Summerville, SC	13	12
#16	Clemson, SC	11	10
#17	Lexington, SC	11	10
#18	Hilton Head Island, SC	11	7
#19	Fairfax, SC	11	6
#20	Clover, SC	11	8
#21	Darlington, SC	11	6
#22	Seneca, SC	10	9
#23	Tega Cay, SC	10	10
#24	Moore, SC	10	9
#25	Pickens, SC	10	9

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Dennis W. Johnson	Simpsonville	The Babcock & Wilcox	11
2	Shalaby W. Shalaby	Anderson	Poly-Med	9
3	Malcolm MacCoss	Seabrook Island	Merck	7
3	Robert E. McCracken	Anderson	Ryobi Motor Products	7
3	Kenneth M. Brazell	Piedmont	—	7
#6	Jose M. Rodriguez	Fort Mill	Geo Specialty Chemicals	6
#7	Ronald M. Marsilio	Ridgeland	Invue Security Products	5
#7	John N. Vournakis	Charleston	Marine Polymer Technologies	5
#7	Edwin R. Jones	Columbia	Lsi Logic	5
#7	Nathan Hale	Fairfax	Sawgrass Systems	5
#7	Henry G. Schirmer	Spartanburg	W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn.	5
#12	Michael V. Kazakis	Roebuck	Westinghouse Air Brake	4
#12	Stanley L. Hager	Little River	Bayer Materialscience Ag	4
#12	Edward A. Burt	Orangeburg	Albemarle	4
#12	Jon Conrad Schaeffer	Greenville	GE	4
#12	Robert C. Smith	Chapin	Covidien Lp	4
#12	Peter Schilling	Charleston	Westvaco	4
#12	Rafael E. Aguilera	Simpsonville	Hill-Rom	4
#12	T. Kevin Castle	Greenville	Westinghouse Air Brake	4
#12	Rajko D. Medenica	Hilton Head Island	Unknown	4
#12	Robert M. Stuck	Clover	Marshall Air Systems	4
#12	Paul D. A. Mills	Darlington	ICI	4
#12	Ronald C. McCurry	West Union	Ryobi Motor Products	4
#24	Stephan Fredrick Sherriff	Rock Hill	Hoechst Celanese	3
#24	William C. Suski	Hartsville	Sonoco Products	3