South Carolina — Patent Inventors 2018

Top Cities in South Carolina 2018

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Greenville, SC	509	249
#2	Simpsonville, SC	402	200
#3	Columbia, SC	325	119
#4	Charleston, SC	253	116
#5	Greer, SC	220	116
#6	Anderson, SC	109	71
#7	Summerville, SC	94	38
#8	Fort Mill, SC	93	55
#9	Mount Pleasant, SC	92	36
#10	Spartanburg, SC	73	46
#11	Clemson, SC	61	33
#12	Aiken, SC	56	40
#13	Florence, SC	56	39
#14	Easley, SC	52	39
#15	North Charleston, SC	52	12
#16	London, SC	48	7
#17	Lexington, SC	47	35
#18	Taylors, SC	42	21
#19	Rock Hill, SC	38	19
#20	Irmo, SC	31	22
#21	Piedmont, SC	30	21
#22	Seneca, SC	29	19
#23	West Columbia, SC	24	17
#24	Myrtle Beach, SC	24	17
#25	Greenwood, SC	24	19

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Peng Xu	Columbia	IBM	59
2	David Dawson	Charleston	The Urban Electric	36
2	Christopher Roof	Charleston	The Urban Electric	36
2	Joeangel Casanova	North Charleston	The Urban Electric	36
2	Jonathan Charpia	Summerville	The Urban Electric	36
#6	Courteney Salsbury	Mount Pleasant	The Urban Electric	32
#7	Remigijus Gaska	Columbia	Sensor Electronic Technology	30
#8	Maxim S. Shatalov	Columbia	Sensor Electronic Technology	25
#9	Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam	Greenville	GE	24
#10	Christopher Daniel Caruso	Greenville	GE	17
#10	Aaron A. Yarbrough	Clemson	GE	17
#12	Gregory Thomas Foster	Greer	GE	16
#13	James Robert Tobin	Greenville	GE	15
#14	David Wayne Weber	Simpsonville	GE	14
#15	Benjamin Paul Lacy	Greer	GE	13
#16	Jinwei Yang	Columbia	Sensor Electronic Technology	11
#16	Foster B. Stulen	Johns Island	Johnson & Johnson	11
#18	Jonathan Dwight Berry	Simpsonville	GE	10
#18	David M. Grigg	Rock Hill	Bank of America	10
#18	Timothy James Bettles	Columbia	Sensor Electronic Technology	10
#18	Robert C. Booth	Greer	Aseko	10
#18	Robert William Moore	Spartanburg	Oclu Limited	10
#18	Daniel Alan Hynum	Simpsonville	GE	10
#18	Gary Michael Itzel	Simpsonville	GE	10
#25	Harold Robert Schnetzka	Simpsonville	York International	9