Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Alabama ranks #36 among US states for total patents filed in 2016, with 1,315 patents from 880 inventors across 143 cities. On a per-capita basis that is 0.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a standard benchmark for comparing state-level R&D intensity.

Top Cities in Alabama 2016

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 Huntsville, AL 219 142
#2 Madison, AL 173 98
#3 Birmingham, AL 132 93
#4 Auburn, AL 73 54
#5 Tuscaloosa, AL 45 33
#6 Mobile, AL 43 38
#7 Harvest, AL 39 20
#8 Hoover, AL 30 14
#9 Decatur, AL 29 22
#10 Montgomery, AL 25 14
#11 Owens Cross Roads, AL 18 8
#12 New Hope, AL 18 3
#13 Albertville, AL 17 9
#14 Enterprise, AL 16 4
#15 Moody, AL 15 8
#16 Guntersville, AL 14 5
#17 Northport, AL 13 8
#18 Toney, AL 12 5
#19 Muscle Shoals, AL 12 6
#20 Mountain Brook, AL 12 9
#21 Fayette, AL 12 9
#22 Vestavia Hills, AL 11 10
#23 Killen, AL 11 5
#24 Cullman, AL 10 8
#25 Pell City, AL 9 6

Top Inventors in Alabama 2016

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Larry W. Fullerton New Hope Correlated Magnetics Research 16
2 Mark D. Roberts Huntsville Correlated Magnetics Research 12
3 Gregory Allen Boardman Owens Cross Roads GE 10
3 Antoni Kozlowski Huntsville Nektar Therapeutics 10
3 Samuel P. McManus Guntersville Nektar Therapeutics 10
#6 Dale L. Kirkland Madison NVIDIA 9
#7 Jason Thurman Stewart Harvest GE 8
#8 Seydou Diop Hoover Hubbell Incorporated 7
#8 Jean-Pierre Giraud Auburn Csp Technologies 7
#8 Donald Folker Madison Comcast 7
#8 Dean Kenneth Jackson Toney Google 7
#8 Michael D. Bentley Huntsville Nektar Therapeutics 7
#13 Ronald R. Woller Decatur Viking Solutions 6
#13 Paul Zelazny Moody Hubbell Incorporated 6
#13 Marcelo A. Kuroda Auburn IBM 6
#13 David B. Ewing Madison Synapse Wireless 6
#17 Pengfei Wang Hoover Fudan University 5
#17 Michael Bruce Knight Enterprise Enterprise Electronics 5
#17 Richard L. Goodson Huntsville Adtran 5
#17 Daniel M. Joffe Northport Adtran 5
#17 Lance Covert Montgomery Honeywell 5
#17 Douglas Brown Harvest Mattersight 5
#17 Edward S. Robbins, III Muscle Shoals Unknown 5
#17 Joo-Han Kim Huntsville Samsung 5
#17 James Kerwin McDowell Enterprise Newpark Mats & Integrated Services 5

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