Top Inventors in Roanoke, VA — 2016

Roanoke, VA ranks #1,215 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 105 patents from 67 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Roanoke, VA include GE, Global Plasma Solutions, Pixeloptics. That works out to 1.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 67 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Robert Gregory Wagoner	GE	16
2	Allen Michael Ritter	GE	6
3	Charles Houston Waddell	Global Plasma Solutions	5
#4	Joshua N. Haddock	Pixeloptics	4
#5	Mark Graham	Mitsui Chemicals	3
#5	Ahsan Habib	Novozymes Bioag A/S	3
#5	John Alexander Petzen, III	GE	3
#8	Charles Willey	Itt Manufacturing Enterprises	2
#8	Cyrus David Harbourt	GE	2
#8	Alejandro Penaloza-Vazquez	Novozymes Biologicals Limited	2
#8	Michael Hudson	Rgb Systems	2
#8	I. Michelle Williams	Novozymes Biologicals Limited	2
#13	Michael Glynn Wise	GE	1
#13	David Drahos	Novozymes Biologicals Limited	1
#13	Sean P. McGinnis	High Performance Optics	1
#13	John Barnett Hammond	Digitaloptics	1
#13	David Scott Wilmer	GE	1
#13	Serban Jora	AT&T	1
#13	Steven Wade Sutherland	GE	1
#13	E. Channing Preston, Jr.	Gridpoint	1
#13	William Baldwin Dodge, IV	Altec Industries	1
#13	Ping Qiu	C. B. Fleet Company	1
#13	Jeff M. Cutright	Norfolk Southern	1
#13	Steven Schmitt	Cardiac Pacemakers	1
#13	Paul Musgrave Blaiklock	Tmeic	1
#13	David McClure	Crayola	1
#13	Catherine Kropff	—	1
#13	Chad Kropff	—	1
#13	Mark Eugene Shepard	GE	1
#13	Robert Hall	Mitsui Chemicals	1
#13	William Robert Pearson	GE	1
#13	L. Jane Jourdan	Musc Foundation For Research Development	1
#13	John C. Nelson	3M	1
#13	Frank Everett Whaley	IBM	1
#13	Joseph Clark Rowny, Jr.	GE	1
#13	Stuart A. Underwood	Synthetic Genomics	1
#13	Daniel K. Dyess	Gridpoint	1
#13	Robert Allen Seymour	GE	1
#13	Venkatramani S. Iyer	Pixeloptics	1
#13	Mark Steven Sanders	Dell Products	1
#13	Adam Humphrys	—	1
#13	Paul Huffman	—	1
#13	Dmitru Branisteanu	Exelis	1
#13	Ahmet Durmaz	Tmeic	1
#13	Neil D. Wilkin, JR.	Optical Cable	1
#13	Michael Frodyma	Novozymes Bioag A/S	1
#13	William Urbanski	Secureworks	1
#13	Venki Iyer	Mitsui Chemicals	1
#13	Charles William Weidner	GE	1
#13	Jessamine P. Winer-Jones	AbbVie	1

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