South Carolina — Patent Inventors 2019

Top Cities in South Carolina 2019

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Greenville, SC	547	289
#2	Simpsonville, SC	412	213
#3	Columbia, SC	381	112
#4	Greer, SC	240	121
#5	Charleston, SC	225	134
#6	Anderson, SC	101	74
#7	Fort Mill, SC	98	45
#8	Summerville, SC	76	41
#9	Mount Pleasant, SC	72	45
#10	Easley, SC	70	44
#11	Spartanburg, SC	61	40
#12	Taylors, SC	60	30
#13	Clemson, SC	59	27
#14	Aiken, SC	52	45
#15	Rock Hill, SC	44	26
#16	Florence, SC	42	32
#17	Fairfax, SC	39	28
#18	Beijing, SC	38	7
#19	North Charleston, SC	37	20
#20	Seneca, SC	37	16
#21	Piedmont, SC	35	21
#22	Myrtle Beach, SC	33	21
#23	Tega Cay, SC	32	24
#24	Greenwood, SC	31	23
#25	Shanghai, SC	28	7

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Peng Xu	Columbia	IBM	106
2	Remigijus Gaska	Columbia	Sensor Electronic Technology	41
3	Maxim S. Shatalov	Columbia	Sensor Electronic Technology	30
#4	Foster B. Stulen	Johns Island	Johnson & Johnson	19
#4	Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam	Greenville	GE	19
#6	Timothy James Bettles	Columbia	Sensor Electronic Technology	14
#6	David Dawson	Charleston	The Urban Electric	14
#6	David Wayne Weber	Simpsonville	GE	14
#9	Sandip Dutta	Greenville	GE	13
#9	Benjamin Paul Lacy	Greer	GE	13
#9	Joeangel Casanova	North Charleston	The Urban Electric	13
#9	Yuri Bilenko	Columbia	Sensor Electronic Technology	13
#9	Aaron A. Yarbrough	Clemson	GE	13
#14	Jinwei Yang	Columbia	Sensor Electronic Technology	12
#14	Brian Scott Carpenter	Summerville	Lexmark International	12
#14	Jonathon D. Phillips	Fort Mill	Invue Security Products	12
#14	Drew A. Dahill	Pendleton	Tti (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited	12
#18	Gary A. Taylor	Fort Mill	Invue Security Products	11
#18	Naoki Ito	Conway	Yazaki	11
#18	Christopher Daniel Caruso	Greenville	GE	11
#18	James E. Sealey, II	Belton	First Quality Tissue	11
#18	Jason Duckworth	Simpsonville	Hubbell Incorporated	11
#18	James Mathison	Greer	Verizon	11
#24	Scott William Huffer	Hartsville	Sonoco Development	10
#24	Jonathan Charpia	Summerville	The Urban Electric	10