Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Follansbee, WV ranks #17,711 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 3 patents from 3 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Follansbee, WV include Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Bayer Materialscience Ag. That works out to 1.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–3 of 3 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Douglas Valero 1
1 Patrick Edward Pendleton Nippon Steel Nisshin Co. 1
1 Michael K. Jeffries Bayer Materialscience Ag 1

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