Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Louisville, KY ranks #218 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 658 patents from 367 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Louisville, KY include Swagelok, Haier Us Appliance Solutions, Midea Group Co.. That works out to 2.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 367 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Peter C. Williams Swagelok 13
1 James Lee Armstrong Haier Us Appliance Solutions 13
3 Eric Scalf Midea Group Co. 11
#4 Ramasamy Thiyagarajan Haier Us Appliance Solutions 9
#4 Brent Alden Junge Haier Us Appliance Solutions 9
#4 Gregory Sergeevich Chernov Haier Us Appliance Solutions 9
#4 Eric Scott Johnson The Procter & Gamble 9
#8 James Quentin Pollett Haier Us Appliance Solutions 7
#8 Christopher G. Hoppe Midea Group Co. 7
#8 Kyle Edward Durham Haier Us Appliance Solutions 7
#8 Vern A. Neal Midea Group Co. 7
#12 Paul A. Spence Mitral Valve Technologies Sarl 6
#12 Richard W. Cowan Midea Group Co. 6
#12 Tomas Garces Haier Us Appliance Solutions 6
#12 Louis A. Wantland Haier Us Appliance Solutions 6
#12 Joel Boyer Midea Group Co. 6
#12 Hans Juergen Paller Haier Us Appliance Solutions 6
#12 Bagawathkumar Chellappan Haier Us Appliance Solutions 6
#12 Justin Tyler Brown Haier Us Appliance Solutions 6
#12 Stephanos Kyriacou Haier Us Appliance Solutions 6
#21 Troy Marshall Wright Haier Us Appliance Solutions 5
#21 Daniel J. Trice Midea Group Co. 5
#21 David Scott Dunn Haier Us Appliance Solutions 5
#21 Thomas A. Hillerich United States Postal Service 5
#21 Adam Christopher Hofmann Haier Us Appliance Solutions 5
#21 Alan Joseph Mitchell Haier Us Appliance Solutions 5
#21 Joseph Wilson Latham Haier Us Appliance Solutions 5
#21 Samuel Vincent DuPlessis Haier Us Appliance Solutions 5
#29 Roy L. Livingston Unknown 4
#29 Vasiliy P. Abramov Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#29 Charles Benjamin Miller Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#29 Srujan Kusumba Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#29 Gregory R. Furnish Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#29 Peter Hans Bensel Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#29 Frank Schuhmacher Sap Se 4
#29 Richard Dean Suel, II Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#29 Richard Dustin Henderson Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#29 Ryan Ellis Leonard Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#39 Bryan Isaac D'Souza Haier Us Appliance Solutions 3
#39 Christopher Nils Naber Haier Us Appliance Solutions 3
#39 Keith Alan Ware UPS 3
#39 Jessica Myers UPS 3
#39 Timothy Martin Wetzel Midea Group Co. 3
#39 John O. Trent University Of Louisville 3
#39 Bryan T. Snook Midea Group Co. 3
#39 Timothy Scott Shaffer Haier Us Appliance Solutions 3
#39 Bryan James Beckley Haier Us Appliance Solutions 3
#39 Robert William Jewell HP 3
#39 Craig Benjamin Williams GE 3
#39 Ganapathy Viswanathan Hexion 3

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