Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Clemson, SC ranks #2,877 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 43 patents from 30 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Clemson, SC include Sila Nanotechnologies, Techtronic Cordless Gp, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. That works out to 2.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–30 of 30 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Bogdan Zdyrko Sila Nanotechnologies 4
2 Christopher Holman Techtronic Cordless Gp 3
2 Rhett Smith Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories 3
#4 Clinton C. Thackery Tti (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited 2
#4 Zhuochen Shi Electrolux Home Products 2
#4 Mark K. Stokes Techtronic Cordless Gp 2
#4 Xiaofei Jiang Pacesetter 2
#4 Keith Corzine University of California 2
#4 Kenneth A. Christensen Panduit 2
#10 Sai Sunil Kumar Mallineni Clemson University 1
#10 Kyle S. Brinkman Clemson University 1
#10 Keith Phelan Electrolux Home Products 1
#10 Aaron A. Yarbrough GE 1
#10 Orin Miller Electrolux Home Products 1
#10 Duminda Sanjeewa Clemson University 1
#10 Graham Barry Jones Clemson University 1
#10 Suyi Li University of Michigan 1
#10 Timothy Willis Electrolux Home Products 1
#10 Jeffrey Adelberg Clemson University 1
#10 Sagar Ramesh Shah The Johns Hopkins University 1
#10 Andrew G. Tennyson Clemson University 1
#10 Kevin C. Miles Power Tool Holders Incorporated 1
#10 Jay B. Gaillard Clemson University 1
#10 C. Scott Tennant Tti (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited 1
#10 Eric Montgomery Lucas Apple 1
#10 Charles Derrick Quarles, Jr. Elemental Scientific 1
#10 Yongchang Dong Clemson University 1
#10 Piyush Khullar Clemson University 1
#10 Xinbo He Apple 1
#10 Christoph W. Aurich Gaston Systems 1

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