Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Rock Hill, SC ranks #2,097 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 61 patents from 27 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Rock Hill, SC include Bank of America, Celgard, Schaeffler. That works out to 0.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–27 of 27 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David M. Grigg Bank of America 16
2 Joseph Neil Johansen Bank of America 8
3 Zhengming Zhang Celgard 3
3 James Brown Schaeffler 3
3 Purvi S. Patel IBM 3
#6 Joseph Daley Avery Dennison Retail Information Services 2
#6 John Helgesen Dental Equipment 2
#6 C. Glen Wensley Celgard 2
#6 Martin Alan Johnson Lexmark International 2
#6 Nathan Hemmer Dental Equipment 2
#6 Michael Heaton Schaeffler 2
#12 Thomas Anthony Patena Atotech Deutschland 1
#12 Kenneth Scott Bozeman 1
#12 Kellie F. Payne Covidien Lp 1
#12 Milton Clifford Beckham 1
#12 Jacob Myers Boral Ip Holdings (Australia) Pty Limited 1
#12 Joshua Manning 1
#12 Nayan H. Joshi Atotech Deutschland 1
#12 Christopher George Ringholz Atotech Deutschland 1
#12 Ian Andrew McCallum Celgard 1
#12 Marcia Weinbach Miktuk 1
#12 Walter Eugene McRae Bank of America 1
#12 Robert Starling Avery Dennison Retail Information Services 1
#12 Bruce C. Andrews The Boeing 1
#12 Jenny Reilly 3D Systems 1
#12 Bruce Randall Landis+Gyr Ag 1
#12 Paul D. Vido Celgard 1

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