Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Columbia, SC ranks #371 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 348 patents from 123 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Columbia, SC include Sensor Electronic Technology, IBM, University Of South Carolina. That works out to 2.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 123 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Remigijus Gaska Sensor Electronic Technology 55
2 Maxim S. Shatalov Sensor Electronic Technology 33
3 Peng Xu IBM 29
#4 Jinwei Yang Sensor Electronic Technology 18
#5 Rakesh Jain Sensor Electronic Technology 14
#6 Timothy James Bettles Sensor Electronic Technology 9
#6 Grigory Simin Sensor Electronic Technology 9
#6 Yuri Bilenko Sensor Electronic Technology 9
#9 Wenhong Sun Sensor Electronic Technology 8
#10 Brian Benicewicz University Of South Carolina 6
#11 Tangali S. Sudarshan University Of South Carolina 5
#11 William F. Ranson GE 5
#11 Kevin Huang Mag Aerospace Industries 5
#14 Srinivasan Ramanath Saint-Gobain Abrasives 4
#14 Odis Richardson 4
#16 Stephen Gibson Normark Innovations 3
#16 Michael Simcock Halliburton Energy Services 3
#16 Elizabeth Rhue Sonoco Development 3
#16 Robert M. Kennedy Sensor Electronic Technology 3
#16 Trenton J. Johnson IBM 3
#21 Hassan A. Shazly IBM 2
#21 Alexander Lunev Sensor Electronic Technology 2
#21 Stephen M. Tuel Wayne State University 2
#21 Michelle Hunt Cummins Power Generation 2
#21 William E. Brewer Integrated Micro-Chromatography Systems 2
#21 Igor Agafonov Sensor Electronic Technology 2
#21 Chuanbing Tang University Of South Carolina 2
#21 David B. Skinner Shakespeare Company 2
#21 Haizheng Song University Of South Carolina 2
#21 Lewis H. Bowman University Of South Carolina 2
#21 Andreas Enz Lang-Mekra North America 2
#21 Tawhid Rana University Of South Carolina 2
#21 Lim Andrew Lee Integrated Micro-Chromatography Systems 2
#21 Asif Khan Nitek 2
#21 James W. Kronberg US Dept of Energy 2
#21 Richard Hoppmann University Of South Carolina 2
#21 Krishna C. Mandal University Of South Carolina 2
#38 Frank Voss Lambda Physik Ag 1
#38 Ezra B. Riber 1
#38 Martin J. Paisner Hercules 1
#38 Alexandre Petroff Lang-Mekra North America 1
#38 Matthew W. Endres University Of South Carolina 1
#38 James E. Copenhafer Arkema 1
#38 Harry J. Ploehn University Of South Carolina 1
#38 Raymond Wray 1
#38 James Sawczuk 1
#38 Ignas Gaska Sensor Electronic Technology 1
#38 Rozalynn B Goodwin 1
#38 Peisheng Xu University Of South Carolina 1
#38 Yao Wang ITRI 1

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