Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Roanoke, VA ranks #1,724 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 76 patents from 56 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Roanoke, VA include GE, Global Plasma Solutions, High Performance Optics. That works out to 0.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 56 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Robert Gregory Wagoner GE 7
2 Allen Michael Ritter GE 4
3 Charles Houston Waddell Global Plasma Solutions 3
3 Mark Eugene Shepard GE 3
#5 Sean P. McGinnis High Performance Optics 2
#5 Richard Clompus Pogotec 2
#5 Walter Dannhardt Pogotec 2
#5 Joshua N. Haddock Pixeloptics 2
#5 Robert Allen Seymour GE 2
#5 Charles Willey Itt Manufacturing Enterprises 2
#5 John Alexander Petzen, III GE 2
#12 David M. Remer 1
#12 Bobi Arnold Pogotec 1
#12 Kirk Treubert Synchrony 1
#12 Amitava Gupta Caltech 1
#12 Cyrus David Harbourt GE 1
#12 C. Kathleen Dorey Florida Atlantic University Research 1
#12 Ahsan Habib Novozymes Bioag A/S 1
#12 Gary L. Ward Epic 1
#12 Adam T. Bishop IBM 1
#12 Brennan Gee Allstate Insurance 1
#12 Mark Steven Sanders Dell Products 1
#12 Christopher Sortore Synchrony 1
#12 Talha Irfanul Haque GE 1
#12 Angela Marie Comstock Johnson Controls Technology 1
#12 John C. Nelson 3M 1
#12 Scott Fitzgerald Edsal Manufacturing Company 1
#12 Clay Skelton Mill Mountain Capital 1
#12 Steven William Smith GE 1
#12 Kenton Travis Shonhor GE 1
#12 Paul Oliver Caffrey GE 1
#12 Richard F. Floryan Itt 1
#12 Paul Howard Conner 1
#12 Benjamin D. Rudolph Tmeic 1
#12 Patrick Joseph Conroy GE 1
#12 Victor Iannello Synchrony 1
#12 George Matzko GE 1
#12 David Drahos Novozymes Biologicals Limited 1
#12 Serban Jora AT&T 1
#12 Steven Wade Sutherland GE 1
#12 William S. Freeman Hollingsworth & Vose 1
#12 David John Boyes Acterna 1
#12 Ping Qiu C. B. Fleet Company 1
#12 Curtis Drew Arney 1
#12 Mokhtar S. Maklad International Telephone And Telegraph 1
#12 Irene Michelle Williams Novozymes Biologicals Limited 1
#12 Pierre A. Dionne Duraforce Holdings 1
#12 Leland H. Lyon Ingersoll-Rand 1
#12 Michael Hudson Rgb Systems 1
#12 Tomas Christopher Gardiner GE 1

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