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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Salem, VA ranks #1,937 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 68 patents from 49 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Salem, VA include Bally Gaming, US Air Force, GE. That works out to 2.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–49 of 49 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 William Ralph Bond 4
1 James Morrow Bally Gaming 4
1 Leslie Brandon Shaw US Air Force 4
#4 Igor Berroteran Gil 3
#4 Robert William Grubbs GE 3
#6 Todd David Greenleaf GE 2
#6 Paul S. Bixel GE 2
#6 Shawn Semones Novozymes Bioag A/S 2
#6 Thomas E. Sutto US Air Force 2
#6 Bruce M. Pixton US Army 2
#6 Andrew David McArthur GE 2
#12 Igor Berroteran Gil GE 1
#12 Lemuel C. Payne, Jr. 1
#12 Terry Michael Tackman GE 1
#12 Ashok Dattatraya Acharya GE 1
#12 Divyakant L. Patel US Army 1
#12 Martin H. Moore US Air Force 1
#12 King David Gyasi 1
#12 Christina Ann Romanik GE 1
#12 Jay D. Eversole US Air Force 1
#12 William C. Hudson Agilent Technologies 1
#12 Janet A. HESSLER 1
#12 Nilesh Nandakumar Samant Ca 1
#12 Glenn Hartman Medeco Security Locks 1
#12 Claudia Marie Cappelle 1
#12 Brian Eric Lindholm GE 1
#12 Michael James Gurtzweiler Silicon Valley Bank 1
#12 L. Brandon Shaw US Navy 1
#12 Steven Carl Anderson Microsoft 1
#12 Joseph E. Remias University Of Kentucky 1
#12 Jeffrey Alan Melius GE 1
#12 Angela M. Payne 1
#12 Karen A. Ughetta IBM 1
#12 Lennie Ray Mitchell 1
#12 Timothy Joseph Rhode GE 1
#12 Andre Steven DeMaurice GE 1
#12 Adam Matthew Bumgarner Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 1
#12 Alan Carroll Lovell GE 1
#12 Justin C. Biffinger US Air Force 1
#12 Neeraj Nepal US Navy 1
#12 Kristi Woods Novozymes Bioag A/S 1
#12 Paul Westmeyer NASA 1
#12 Christopher Pollock 1
#12 Napoleon C. Paxton US Air Force 1
#12 Matthew F. Wolford US Air Force 1
#12 Deane Owen Elliott Unknown 1
#12 Daniel A. Lowy US Air Force 1
#12 Michael Drzewucki IBM 1
#12 Peter H. Field Medeco Security Locks 1

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