Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Birmingham, AL ranks #986 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 148 patents from 101 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Birmingham, AL include Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Inventure Renewables, Southern Research Institute. That works out to 0.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 101 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yarlagadda S. Babu Biocryst Pharmaceuticals 9
2 Pravin L. Kotian Biocryst Pharmaceuticals 6
3 Aravind Musuluri 4
3 Cory O'Neil Blanchard Inventure Renewables 4
3 V. Satish Kumar Biocryst Pharmaceuticals 4
#6 Vandana Gupta Southern Research Institute 3
#6 John K. Wakefield 3
#6 De-Chu C. Tang Altimmune 3
#6 John E. Sakmar Hubbell Incorporated 3
#6 Robert J. Smith Gen-Probe Incorporated 3
#6 Dong Jin Lim Skc Co. 3
#6 Shanta Bantia Biocryst Pharmaceuticals 3
#13 Scott Doty Masco Corporation Of Indiana 2
#13 Joanne Murphy-Ullrich Southern Research Institute 2
#13 Gary Click Vae Nortrak North America 2
#13 Murray P. Hasinoff Amvac Chemical 2
#13 Spencer Daniel Sanders Amvac Chemical 2
#13 Derek Cameron Voestalpine Nortrak 2
#13 John Wydner Unknown 2
#13 Victor Darley-Usmar The Uab Research Foundation 2
#13 Andrea Engel Evonik Operations Gmbh 2
#13 Karim I. Budhwani 2
#13 Michael C. L. Vickery US Dept of Health & Human Services 2
#24 Rebecca Boohaker Southern Research Institute 1
#24 Khidr Kishan K. Budhwani 1
#24 Shaun McCutcheon 1
#24 Scott Branum Evoqua Water Technologies 1
#24 Richard A. Paul, Jr. Open Invention Network Llc Nc 1
#24 Mark Pilgrim Widener Imaging Business Machines 1
#24 Joseph A. Saiia Huntsman International 1
#24 Venkateshwar Mutyam The Uab Research Foundation 1
#24 Paul Otto George Mason University 1
#24 Patrick Schexnailder Southern Research Institute 1
#24 Beatrice H. Hahn Duke University 1
#24 Harvest Morgan 1
#24 Taylor J. Wingo Parker-Hannifin 1
#24 William F. Britt, Jr. 1
#24 Joseph Horton Musc Foundation For Research Development 1
#24 Steven Holt 1
#24 Philip BREITFELD Biocryst Pharmaceuticals 1
#24 Howard P. Walthall, Jr. Nutech Spine 1
#24 Joseph B. Thompson Bear Creek Technologies 1
#24 Maria Watkins 1
#24 Eric J. Sorscher The Uab Research Foundation 1
#24 Jeremy Jowers 1
#24 Roslyn Bernstein Mannon Cleveland Clinic 1
#24 E. Lyle Cain, Jr. Arthrex 1
#24 Katie C. Mowry Prime Merger Sub 1
#24 Michael Plumley US Dept of Homeland Security 1
#24 Jeffrey R. CURTIS Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings 1

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