Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Florence, SC ranks #2,230 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 56 patents from 39 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Florence, SC include GE, USDA, Degen Medical. That works out to 1.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–39 of 39 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Derek Seeber GE 3
1 Yuri Lvovsky GE 3
1 Mark Derakhshan GE 3
#4 Matias B. Vanotti USDA 2
#4 Craig Black Degen Medical 2
#4 Anthony Mantone GE 2
#4 David A. Nelson Ingersoll-Rand 2
#4 Shahed Ashraf GE 2
#4 Timothy E. Wise Hyperformix 2
#4 Edwin L. Legall GE 2
#4 William Louis Einziger GE 2
#4 Sung Man Moon GE 2
#4 Ariel A. Szogi USDA 2
#4 George Petros Yiannikouros Hoffmann-La Roche 2
#15 William Ladd Rutherford GE 1
#15 Timothy John Havens GE 1
#15 Karunakar Reddy Gujja The Esab Group 1
#15 Joshua Bolger Osi Pharmaceuticals 1
#15 Fengshun Tan GE 1
#15 Patrick Dubé USDA 1
#15 Weijun Shen GE 1
#15 Panos Kalaritis Abbott 1
#15 Sharayla Ann Cleare Sonoco Development 1
#15 Denis Viktorovich Arefyev Enterome 1
#15 Chaminda Priyapushpa Gamage Enterome 1
#15 Christopher Reed Martin The Esab Group 1
#15 Dogan Celik GE 1
#15 Challis Avery King Medipal Holdings 1
#15 David Glenn Lee GE 1
#15 Slawek Witkowski Sonoco Development 1
#15 Etash Kumar Guha 1
#15 George L. Joyner, Jr. Allied Air Enterprises 1
#15 Charles F. Helms, Jr. Basf Se 1
#15 Richard Pellechia 1
#15 Longzhi Jiang GE 1
#15 Stuart Paul Feltham GE 1
#15 Steven Kubilius Sonoco Development 1
#15 Zhiming Dong Hoffmann-La Roche 1
#15 Philip K. Higgins The Esab Group 1

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