Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Louisville, KY ranks #218 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 626 patents from 367 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Louisville, KY include Midea Group Co., Swagelok, Haier Us Appliance Solutions. That works out to 2.5 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 Joel Boyer Midea Group Co. 11
2 Peter C. Williams Swagelok 10
3 Bassam Fawaz Midea Group Co. 9
3 Gregory Sergeevich Chernov Haier Us Appliance Solutions 9
#5 Ramasamy Thiyagarajan Haier Us Appliance Solutions 8
#5 Patrick R. Lancaster, III Lantech.Com 8
#5 Adam Christopher Hofmann Haier Us Appliance Solutions 8
#5 Michael P. Mitchell Lantech.Com 8
#9 Eric Scalf Midea Group Co. 7
#9 Samuel C. Voorhees Rational Packaging 7
#11 Timothy Kopera Haier Us Appliance Solutions 6
#11 Richard W. Cowan Midea Group Co. 6
#11 Paul A. Spence Mitral Valve Technologies Sarl 6
#11 Peter Hans Bensel Haier Us Appliance Solutions 6
#11 Kyle Edward Durham Haier Us Appliance Solutions 6
#16 Ashok Seetharam 5
#16 Brent Alden Junge Haier Us Appliance Solutions 5
#16 Alan Joseph Mitchell Haier Us Appliance Solutions 5
#16 Stacy B. Griggs El Toro.Com 5
#16 Keith Guetig Samtec 5
#16 David T. Stadler, III El Toro.Com 5
#22 Eric Scott Johnson The Procter & Gamble 4
#22 Mark Jordan Redzone Robotics 4
#22 Stephanos Kyriacou Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#22 Christopher G. Hoppe Midea Group Co. 4
#22 Justin Tyler Brown Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#22 Timothy Scott Shaffer Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#22 Mahendra Kumar Sunkara University Of Louisville 4
#22 John Edward Dries Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#22 Samuel Vincent DuPlessis Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#22 David Scott Dunn Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#22 Jivko Ognianov Djerekarov Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#22 Tomas Garces Haier Us Appliance Solutions 4
#34 Vineeth Vijayan Haier Us Appliance Solutions 3
#34 Greg Furnish Freudenberg Medical 3
#34 Christopher Rännefors 3
#34 Brian Michael Schork Haier Us Appliance Solutions 3
#34 Thomas A. Hillerich United States Postal Service 3
#34 Robert M. Buchanan MIT 3
#34 Aaron Daniel Abbott The Ames Companies 3
#34 Gregory Allen Dedow Haier Us Appliance Solutions 3
#34 John O. Trent University Of Louisville 3
#34 Matthew R. Hunter Haier Us Appliance Solutions 3
#34 Ryan James Scheckelhoff Haier Us Appliance Solutions 3
#34 Daniel J. Trice Midea Group Co. 3
#34 Robert William Jewell HP 3
#34 Brian Paul Williams Brian'S Botanicals 3
#34 James Lee Armstrong Haier Us Appliance Solutions 3
#34 Hans Juergen Paller Haier Us Appliance Solutions 3
#34 Richard M. Teachout, III El Toro.Com 3

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