Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Alabama ranks #35 among US states for total patents filed in 2022, with 1,215 patents from 876 inventors across 138 cities. On a per-capita basis that is 0.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a standard benchmark for comparing state-level R&D intensity.

Top Cities in Alabama 2022

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 Huntsville, AL 207 148
#2 Birmingham, AL 123 100
#3 Auburn, AL 105 70
#4 Madison, AL 101 71
#5 Montgomery, AL 48 26
#6 Hoover, AL 46 30
#7 Tuscaloosa, AL 43 37
#8 Mobile, AL 39 29
#9 Owens Cross Roads, AL 19 14
#10 Decatur, AL 18 15
#11 Athens, AL 17 9
#12 Opelika, AL 16 5
#13 Tuskegee, AL 15 11
#14 Fort Payne, AL 14 10
#15 Harvest, AL 14 8
#16 Fairhope, AL 12 8
#17 Homewood, AL 12 8
#18 Northport, AL 12 11
#19 Vestavia Hills, AL 12 9
#20 Spanish Fort, AL 11 8
#21 Florence, AL 11 10
#22 Mountain Brook, AL 11 6
#23 Toney, AL 10 4
#24 Pell City, AL 9 6
#25 Scottsboro, AL 9 6

Top Inventors in Alabama 2022

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Pengfei Wang Hoover Fudan University 8
2 Piyush Porwal Montgomery Rheem Manufacturing 7
2 Riley Winton Opelika Harman International Industries, Incorporated 7
2 Jonathan R. Freedman Auburn Csp Technologies 7
#5 Nicholas James Kennedy Jasper Virtual Hold Technology Solutions 6
#5 James W. Handley Toney RTX (Raytheon) 6
#5 Michael D. Bentley Huntsville Nektar Therapeutics 6
#5 Gary George Baltz, Jr. Mountain Brook Alabama Metal Industries 6
#5 James Allen Johnson Mobile Icontrol Networks 6
#5 Dong Jin Lim Birmingham Skc Co. 6
#11 Michael C. Mitchell Auburn Rheem Manufacturing 5
#11 Christopher Weikart Auburn Sio2 Medical Products 5
#11 Franklin Lee Lucas, Jr. Opelika Csp Technologies 5
#11 Raymond George Thompson Hoover Afl Telecommunications 5
#11 Dustin Kyle Nolen Mount Olive Afl Telecommunications 5
#11 Florent Arnoux Huntsville Performance Drone Works 5
#17 Sean M. Culbertson Gurley Nektar Therapeutics 4
#17 Samuel P. McManus Guntersville Nektar Therapeutics 4
#17 John Calagaz Mobile Fishing Chaos 4
#17 Joshua Boyd Jordan Harvest Lsinc 4
#17 John Belfance Pell City Csp Technologies 4
#17 Mark J. Suto Homewood Southern Research Institute 4
#17 Christina Johnston Spanish Fort Robert Bosch Gmbh 4
#17 Michael P. Parsons Auburn Communications Test Design 4
#17 Xiaofang Chen Huntsville Sk Hynix 4

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