Forest, VA ranks #2,909 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 46 patents from 22 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Forest, VA include Commscope Technologies, GE, Mitsui Chemicals. That works out to 3.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.
Showing 1–22 of 22 inventors
| Rank | Inventor | Primary Company | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Van E. Hanson | Commscope Technologies | 8 |
| 2 | Fred William Phillips | Commscope Technologies | 6 |
| 3 | Charles B. Morrison | Commscope Technologies | 5 |
| #4 | Cornelius Edward Holliday | GE | 3 |
| #4 | Sophie Adams | Mitsui Chemicals | 3 |
| #6 | Lewis A. Walton | Bwxt Mpower | 2 |
| #6 | Richard H. Lee | Belvac Production Machinery | 2 |
| #6 | Michael J. Edwards | Bwxt Mpower | 2 |
| #6 | Thomas Ebeling | Hanwha Azdel | 2 |
| #10 | Roger Doles, Jr. | AT&T | 1 |
| #10 | Kevin Walkup | Motorola | 1 |
| #10 | Steven J. Younghouse | Bwxt Technical Services Group | 1 |
| #10 | Chris Brown | PayPal | 1 |
| #10 | Ruomiao Wang | Hanwha Azdel | 1 |
| #10 | Kenneth Wade Markham | Framatome | 1 |
| #10 | Jeffrey A. Enneking | Framatome | 1 |
| #10 | Dennis Layne | — | 1 |
| #10 | Alyson C. Phillips | 3M | 1 |
| #10 | Neil T. Hobbs | Andrew | 1 |
| #10 | Jonathan Witter | Capital One Services | 1 |
| #10 | Scott J. Shargots | Bwxt Mpower | 1 |
| #10 | Charles A. Graves | Framatome | 1 |
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