South Carolina — Patent Inventors 2025

Top Cities in South Carolina 2025

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Greenville, SC	270	184
#2	Columbia, SC	169	84
#3	Charleston, SC	163	106
#4	Simpsonville, SC	130	93
#5	Anderson, SC	111	69
#6	Fort Mill, SC	109	61
#7	Greer, SC	99	60
#8	Mount Pleasant, SC	51	35
#9	Summerville, SC	51	35
#10	Easley, SC	43	32
#11	Lexington, SC	40	27
#12	Rock Hill, SC	36	26
#13	Clemson, SC	36	33
#14	Travelers Rest, SC	32	11
#15	Spartanburg, SC	31	20
#16	Town and Country, SC	30	13
#17	Taylors, SC	29	16
#18	Shanghai, SC	27	9
#19	Qingdao, SC	27	3
#20	Florence, SC	27	24
#21	Piedmont, SC	24	16
#22	Sycamore, SC	24	16
#23	Aiken, SC	20	17
#24	Seneca, SC	19	15
#25	Beijing, SC	18	9

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Joshua Cooper	Columbia	Atombeam Technologies	35
2	Dwight Inman	Travelers Rest	Digital Global Systems	17
3	David Dawson	Charleston	The Urban Electric	13
#4	Jonathan Charpia	Summerville	The Urban Electric	12
#5	Rebecca E. Lowsky	Columbia	Ark Therapeutic Services	10
#6	Dennis Arlen Roberson	Chapin	Entigenlogic	9
#6	Barath Jayaraman	Fort Mill	Truist Bank	9
#6	Grant Fickes	Columbia	Atombeam Technologies	9
#9	W. Bret Smith	Lexington	Treace Medical Concepts	8
#9	Brandon Sloane	Town and Country	Bank of America	8
#11	Foster B. Stulen	Johns Island	Johnson & Johnson	7
#11	James E. Sealey, II	Belton	First Quality Tissue	7
#11	Frederick Bryan	Greenville	Techtronic Cordless Gp	7
#11	Raony Barrios	Anderson	Electrolux Home Products	7
#11	Peng Xu	Columbia	IBM	7
#11	William Roper, JR.	Charleston	Istari Digital	7
#11	Tomas M. Castrejon, III	Fort Mill	Bank of America	7
#18	Brent M. Willey	Anderson	Techtronic Cordless Gp	6
#18	Nataraj Chandrasekharan	Anderson	Techtronic Cordless Gp	6
#18	Tyler H. Knight	Greenville	Techtronic Cordless Gp	6
#18	Tyler J. Rowe	Anderson	Techtronic Cordless Gp	6
#18	Clint Cagle	Easley	Techtronic Cordless Gp	6
#18	Kevin Langer	Charleston	The Urban Electric	6
#24	Zachary John Snider	Pelzer	GE	5
#24	Brian G. Morin	Greenville	Milliken &	5