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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Franklin, TN ranks #1,077 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 135 patents from 85 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Franklin, TN include Amazon, Vanderbilt University, Fox Hardwood Lumber Company. That works out to 1.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 85 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Vivek S. Narayanan Amazon 6
1 Michael Goldfarb Vanderbilt University 6
3 Samuel Fox Fox Hardwood Lumber Company 4
3 Joshua P. Abell Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations 4
3 Michael Cunnyngham Maxxwell Motors 4
3 Mark T. Lane Tensorx 4
3 Randy Sims Pacific Market International 4
#8 Alan Scott 3
#8 David James Thierauf Rai Strategic Holdings 3
#8 Troy D. Ward Systems Spray-Cooled 3
#11 Jason J. Para Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations 2
#11 Samuel E. Lynch Biomimetic Therapeutics 2
#11 Tommy Fox Fox Hardwood Lumber Company 2
#11 Robert Meitzler Robert Bosch Gmbh 2
#11 James C. Tarr Vanderbilt University 2
#11 Michael Peter Ochs Experian Health 2
#11 Paul Anthony Zani C.R. Bard 2
#11 E. David Maher, II 2
#11 Lisa J. Zimmerman Vanderbilt University 2
#11 Roger L. DeYoung Campbell Hausfeld / Scott Fetzer 2
#11 Adam Jaggers Digital Reasoning Systems 2
#11 David Vanzin 2
#11 Robert L. Metcalf Wilbanks International 2
#11 Thomas Andrew Doyle C/Hca 2
#11 Franz Baudenbacher Vanderbilt University 2
#11 Barry George Dean Patroness 2
#11 Paul Currie C/Hca 2
#11 Ryan Priddy Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited 2
#11 Matthew Kent McGinnis 2
#30 Bill Dipietro Digital Reasoning Systems 1
#30 Shannon Gilbreth Britt 1
#30 Randolph Winston Jones 1
#30 Samuel Ely Fein 1
#30 James W. Lowry Sonoco Development 1
#30 Leslie Wisner-Lynch Biomimetic Therapeutics 1
#30 Melani Leigh Smith Weed Echarge2 1
#30 Jeremy Suelflow 1
#30 Martin Gabriel LOMBARDINI 1
#30 Jeffrey T. Jordan Schneider Electric Usa 1
#30 Stephen G. Giraud Informatica 1
#30 Harrison Rogers 1
#30 Dewayne Sullivan 1
#30 Yiu-Yin Cheung Vanderbilt University 1
#30 Conan Young Biomimetic Therapeutics 1
#30 Vincent B. Raucoules Illinois Tool Works 1
#30 Gerrit Hale 1
#30 Sarah Cannon Digital Reasoning Systems 1
#30 Keith Ellis Massey Digital Reasoning Systems 1
#30 Matthew Baker State Farm 1
#30 James Robert Edmonds Servicenow 1

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