Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fort Mill, SC ranks #1,633 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 81 patents from 42 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fort Mill, SC include Bank of America, Lehigh Technologies, Duke Energy. That works out to 3.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–42 of 42 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Tammy L. Brunswig Bank of America 7
2 Alicia C. Jones Bank of America 5
3 Frank Papp Lehigh Technologies 4
3 Stuart Laval Duke Energy 4
3 Jonathon D. Phillips Invue Security Products 4
3 Dennis Roffe Schaeffler 4
#7 Christopher G. Franck General Instrument 3
#7 Leonard Giambalvo Virtual Strongbox 3
#7 Gary A. Taylor Invue Security Products 3
#7 Hiep V. Nguyen Us Conec 3
#11 Neelakantam V. Narendranath Poet Research 2
#11 David T. Frew Bank of America 2
#11 Bradley Benjamin Stagg 2
#11 Todd Scott Covidien Lp 2
#11 Donn J. Costanzo, Jr. Thatbox Design 2
#11 Carl White Schaeffler 2
#11 Matthew Thomas Kerley Invue Security Products 2
#11 Michael Gerald Smith Bank of America 2
#11 Matthew Lamb Continental Reifen Deutschland Gmbh 2
#20 Eric White Celgard 1
#20 Peter L. Tucker Sentek Pty 1
#20 Charles Schwab Schaeffler 1
#20 Grant Keers Atotech Deutschland 1
#20 Francis Joseph Coviello 1
#20 Jennifer Benbow Yale University 1
#20 David Theron Pickens 1
#20 Michael L. Thornton Sonoco Development 1
#20 Thomas Koeppe Siemens Energy 1
#20 Kerry Dissinger Jim Myers & Sons 1
#20 Kerry Kurt Simpkins Bank of America 1
#20 Kerry Michelle Cantley Bank of America 1
#20 Robert R. Gross Standard Microsystems 1
#20 Sean P. Elmore John Deere 1
#20 Eric Linn Hand Held Products 1
#20 Christopher Bouchat Hand Held Products 1
#20 Jason Dane Dodge Bank of America 1
#20 Ronald W. Call Celgard 1
#20 Austin Unsworth Dental Equipment 1
#20 Valerie Caron Blanqi 1
#20 Maia H. Hardin Bank of America 1
#20 Peter T. Tkacik Caraustar Industrial And Consumer Products Group 1
#20 Timothy M. Owens Nanodynamics 1

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