Tennessee — Patent Inventors 2018

Top Cities in Tennessee 2018

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Knoxville, TN	507	343
#2	Nashville, TN	420	281
#3	Memphis, TN	326	177
#4	Germantown, TN	140	57
#5	Kingsport, TN	138	73
#6	Collierville, TN	137	61
#7	Franklin, TN	125	85
#8	Oak Ridge, TN	97	61
#9	Brentwood, TN	80	50
#10	Chattanooga, TN	72	42
#11	Cordova, TN	64	38
#12	Murfreesboro, TN	64	43
#13	Arlington, TN	55	17
#14	Cookeville, TN	39	32
#15	Johnson City, TN	38	27
#16	Bartlett, TN	38	17
#17	Lakeland, TN	31	12
#18	Maryville, TN	30	22
#19	Hendersonville, TN	30	22
#20	Loudon, TN	25	14
#21	Jonesborough, TN	24	15
#22	Jackson, TN	23	19
#23	Suwon-si, TN	22	2
#24	Clarksville, TN	21	16
#25	Spring Hill, TN	20	15

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Christine Holmes	Memphis	Hunter Fan	27
2	Ole-Petter Skaaksrud	Germantown	Fedex Corporate Services	22
3	Kimberly G. Starks	Nashville	IBM	15
#4	Anthony J. Melkent	Germantown	Warsaw Orthopedic	13
#5	Kenneth V. Buer	Hillcrest	Viasat	11
#5	Anshu A. Pradhan	Collierville	View	11
#7	James T. Dalton	Lakeland	University Of Tennessee	10
#7	Duane D. Miller	Collierville	University Of Tennessee	10
#7	Benjamin Scotti Guthrie	Germantown	Hunter Fan	10
#7	Thomas A. Mitchell	Arrington	Wavefront Research	10
#7	Kenneth P. Grace	Oak Ridge	Spectranetics	10
#12	William F. McKay	Memphis	Warsaw Orthopedic	9
#13	William D. Armstrong	Memphis	Warsaw Orthopedic	8
#13	Sheng Dai	Knoxville	Ut-Battelle	8
#13	Brian W. McKinnon	Arlington	Smith & Nephew	8
#13	Howard McKinney	Bartlett	Fedex Corporate Services	8
#17	Richard T. Avent	Memphis	Schering-Plough Healthcare Products	7
#17	Susan J. Drapeau	Cordova	Warsaw Orthopedic	7
#17	Alexander Jonathan Haggar	Memphis	Hunter Fan	7
#17	Daniel Poon	Nashville	Griffin Technology	7
#17	Timothy R. Brahm	Germantown	Biodlogics	7
#17	Jonathan M. Dewey	Memphis	Warsaw Orthopedic	7
#17	Michael Zemel	Knoxville	Nusirt Sciences	7
#17	Terence Hollahan	Collierville	Fedex Corporate Services	7
#17	Christopher Pedicini	Brentwood	Depuy Synthes Products	7