Tennessee — Patent Inventors 2016

Top Cities in Tennessee 2016

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Knoxville, TN	471	309
#2	Nashville, TN	331	217
#3	Memphis, TN	316	184
#4	Kingsport, TN	173	96
#5	Oak Ridge, TN	128	84
#6	Germantown, TN	125	62
#7	Collierville, TN	123	68
#8	Franklin, TN	85	64
#9	Brentwood, TN	71	47
#10	Cordova, TN	69	43
#11	Johnson City, TN	52	26
#12	Chattanooga, TN	43	28
#13	Cookeville, TN	40	24
#14	Murfreesboro, TN	35	29
#15	Jonesborough, TN	35	26
#16	Maryville, TN	29	15
#17	Jackson, TN	28	18
#18	Bartlett, TN	27	18
#19	Lakeland, TN	24	12
#20	Bristol, TN	24	16
#21	Arlington, TN	22	15
#22	Signal Mountain, TN	22	13
#23	Morristown, TN	22	13
#24	Suwon-si, TN	19	2
#25	Hendersonville, TN	19	14

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Brian E. Smith	Knoxville	IBM	24
2	William F. McKay	Memphis	Warsaw Orthopedic	22
3	Martin A. Renkis	Nashville	Smartvue	15
#4	Anshu A. Pradhan	Collierville	View	11
#4	Brittany L. Stewart	Nashville	Griffin Technology	11
#6	Terry R. Colbert	Dyersburg	Pioneer (Corteva)	10
#7	Harold Dail Kimrey, Jr.	Knoxville	915 Labs	9
#7	Adam Wilson	Maryville	Misty Robotics	9
#9	Kevin L. Martin	Memphis	Caterpillar	8
#9	Kevin T. Foley	Germantown	Warsaw Orthopedic	8
#9	Sheng Dai	Knoxville	Ut-Battelle	8
#9	Thomas A. Roberts	Dandridge	Qurio Holdings	8
#13	Mesfin Ejerssa Janka	Kingsport	Eastman Chemical	7
#13	George W. Kraus, II	Johnson City	A. O. Smith	7
#13	Chad Taylor Thompson	Dandridge	A. O. Smith	7
#13	Anthony J. Melkent	Germantown	Warsaw Orthopedic	7
#13	William Alexander Drewry	Nashville	Google	7
#13	Kenny Randolph Parker	Afton	Eastman Chemical	7
#13	Michael P. Conti	Memphis	Whirlpool	7
#13	John R. Harp	Knoxville	Dow Global Technologies	7
#13	Daniel Poon	Nashville	Griffin Technology	7
#22	Venkata Bharat Ram Boppana	Johnson City	Eastman Chemical	6
#22	Thomas Russell Henry	Union City	Pioneer (Corteva)	6
#22	Thauming Kuo	Kingsport	Eastman Chemical	6
#22	Robert Thomas Hembre	Johnson City	Eastman Chemical	6