Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Simpsonville, SC ranks #297 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 401 patents from 214 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Simpsonville, SC include GE, Afl Telecommunications, Proterra Ag. That works out to 17.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 214 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Richard Martin DiCintio GE 13
1 Ted Lichoulas Afl Telecommunications 13
3 David Martin Johnson GE 8
3 Jonathan Dwight Berry GE 8
#5 Gary Michael Itzel GE 6
#5 Dean Matthew Erickson GE 6
#7 Seamus McGrath Proterra Ag 5
#7 Xiuzhang James Zhang GE 5
#7 Gregory Scott Means GE 5
#10 Antony P. Chacko Kemet Electronics 4
#10 John Bultitude Kemet Electronics 4
#10 David Leach GE 4
#10 Jignesh Gandhi GE 4
#10 Jong Ho Uhm GE 4
#10 Bryan Wesley Romig GE 4
#10 David Richard Johns GE 4
#10 Hubert J. Cook Cryovac 4
#10 Mario Joseph Arceneaux GE 4
#10 Kirkland W. Vogt Milliken & 4
#10 David Vincent Bucci GE 4
#10 Ronald Ralph Cairo GE 4
#10 Donald W. Shaw GE 4
#10 Randolph S. Hahn Kemet Electronics 4
#10 Cesar E. Zarak Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin 4
#10 David Wayne Weber GE 4
#26 Fred Frye Ib Korea Co. 3
#26 Michael E. Konruff Baldor Electric 3
#26 Jason Duckworth Hubbell Incorporated 3
#26 Craig Magera Robert Bosch Gmbh 3
#26 Rebecca Evelyn Hefner GE 3
#26 Juan-Pablo Gallego Michelin 3
#26 Nathan Stafford Race GE 3
#26 Christian M. Hansen GE 3
#26 Jason Dean Fuller GE 3
#26 Krishna Kumar Venkataraman GE 3
#26 Steven T. Calvert Cryovac 3
#26 Jaime Javier Maldonado GE 3
#26 Daniel Richard Waugh GE 3
#26 Paul Kendall Smith GE 3
#26 Chuong Nguyen Baldor Electric 3
#26 Csaba Kiss Cryovac 3
#26 Kevin Ray Reim Michelin 3
#43 James Scott Flanagan GE 2
#43 James R. Magee Kemet Electronics 2
#43 Jeffrey C. Moreland Ansell Healthcare Products 2
#43 Douglas Anthony Serieno GE 2
#43 Joseph Nicholas Brown, IV Michelin 2
#43 Thomas D. Kennedy Cryovac 2
#43 Robert Lee Broadcom 2
#43 Michael James Fedor GE 2

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