Alabama — Patent Inventors 2002

Top Cities in Alabama 2002

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Huntsville, AL	206	132
#2	Birmingham, AL	146	112
#3	Madison, AL	79	53
#4	Mobile, AL	63	38
#5	Auburn, AL	38	26
#6	Montgomery, AL	37	31
#7	Hoover, AL	27	16
#8	Opelika, AL	24	7
#9	Decatur, AL	22	19
#10	Athens, AL	20	10
#11	Florence, AL	17	14
#12	Tuscaloosa, AL	12	8
#13	Alabaster, AL	10	6
#14	New Hope, AL	9	1
#15	Guntersville, AL	8	6
#16	Daphne, AL	8	5
#17	Harvest, AL	8	7
#18	Selma, AL	7	3
#19	Fort Payne, AL	7	7
#20	Northport, AL	6	5
#21	Gadsden, AL	6	4
#22	Albertville, AL	6	4
#23	Spanish Fort, AL	6	2
#24	Fairhope, AL	5	4
#25	Muscle Shoals, AL	5	2

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Gary A. Piazza	Mobile	Cell Pathways	15
2	Andrew D. Smith	Hoover	Colibri	10
3	Jim Hawkins	Madison	Meritor Light Vehicle Systems	9
3	Larry W. Fullerton	New Hope	Correlated Magnetics Research	9
#5	James P. English	Birmingham	Guilford Pharmaceuticals	8
#5	Michael P. DiFazio	Mobile	Ciba Specialty Chemicals	8
#5	James S. Finn	Huntsville	Time Domain	8
#8	Michael D. Bentley	Huntsville	Nektar Therapeutics	7
#8	Alan Cummins	Opelika	W.C. Bradley	7
#8	Alan Cummings	Opelika	W.C. Bradley	7
#11	J. Milton Harris	Huntsville	Nektar Therapeutics	6
#12	Robert O. Baron, Sr.	Huntsville	Baron Services	5
#12	Gregg Austin	Selma	Vermeer Manufacturing	5
#12	Tom S. Thompson	Athens	Baron Services	5
#12	David C. Meigs	Huntsville	Time Domain	5
#12	Timothy T. Payment	Huntsville	Time Domain	5
#12	Michael Scalora	Huntsville	Intuit	5
#12	William Welch	Huntsville	Time Domain	5
#12	Antoni Kozlowski	Huntsville	Nektar Therapeutics	5
#20	John D. Clements	Dadeville	Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund	4
#20	Sharon M. Simpson	Spanish Fort	3M	4
#20	James Oliver	Alabaster	Oliver Technologies	4
#20	Mark J. Bloemer	Athens	US Army	4
#20	Michael M. Anthony	Athens	Unknown	4
#20	Ilya Frolov	Birmingham	University Of Texas System	4