Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Greenville, SC ranks #237 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 524 patents from 250 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Greenville, SC include GE, Cryovac, Hubbell Incorporated. That works out to 7.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 250 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Scott Arthur Day GE 21
2 Harold Lamar Jordan, Jr. GE 19
2 Rex Allen Morgan GE 19
#4 Sarah Lori Crothers GE 12
#5 Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam GE 11
#6 Dale J. Davis GE 8
#6 David L. Ackerman Cryovac 8
#6 Victor John Morgan GE 8
#9 David Edward Schick GE 7
#9 Kurt Kramer Schleif GE 7
#9 Christopher Daniel Caruso GE 7
#12 James Robert Tobin GE 6
#12 David A. Simoni Hubbell Incorporated 6
#12 Randy Lewis Hubbell Incorporated 6
#15 Brent Hamilton Holloway GE 5
#15 Willy Steve Ziminsky GE 5
#15 Christian Xavier Stevenson GE 5
#15 Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin GE 5
#15 David William Cihlar GE 5
#15 Elizabeth Angelyn Fadde GE 5
#21 Erik Nordin Epic Tech 4
#21 Jason Lee Burnside GE 4
#21 Joseph Lawrence Chacon GE 4
#21 Brian G. Morin Milliken & 4
#21 Carolyn Ashley Antoniono GE 4
#21 Stephanie Willman GE 4
#21 Guy R. VanBuskirk Theatro Labs 4
#21 Jonathan Matthew Lomas GE 4
#21 Robert C. Beesley Illinois Tool Works 4
#21 Jacob John Kittleson GE 4
#31 Jeffrey L. Sonntag Silicon Laboratories 3
#31 Stefan Herr GE 3
#31 Dustin Michael Earnhardt GE 3
#31 Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff GE 3
#31 Robert Fox Vis 3
#31 Bryan J. Germann GE 3
#31 Pritam Yadav Hubbell Incorporated 3
#31 Andrew Paul Giametta GE 3
#31 James Robert Hollis GE 3
#31 Jon Conrad Schaeffer GE 3
#31 James Ryan Connor GE 3
#31 Michael James Healy GE 3
#31 David Edward Drosback Zf Friedrichshafen Ag 3
#31 Mark Carmine Bellino GE 3
#31 Edward McBeth Stewart GE 3
#31 Joshua Michael Oden GE 3
#31 Jacob Andrew Salm GE 3
#48 Jeremy Trowbridge Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin 2
#48 John Herbert Dimmick, III GE 2
#48 Ben S. Corley, Jr. 2

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