Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wheeling, WV ranks #11,545 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 6 patents from 6 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wheeling, WV include Ignite Technologies, Silgan Plastics, Troy Group. That works out to 0.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–6 of 6 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Brian S. Bosworth Ignite Technologies 1
1 Gary L. Mengeu Silgan Plastics 1
1 Brian Lewis Troy Group 1
1 Richard Flading 1
1 Nitesh Ratnakar Innovation Sciences 1
1 Stephen Chad Kanick Dartmouth College 1

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