Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Auburn, AL ranks #1,632 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,040 patents from 511 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Auburn, AL include Csp Technologies, Demegen, Sio2 Medical Products. That works out to 26.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 511 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jean-Pierre Giraud Csp Technologies 139
2 Jesse M. Jaynes Demegen 47
3 Christopher Weikart Sio2 Medical Products 39
#4 Yang Sun IBM 33
#4 Jonathan R. Freedman Csp Technologies 33
#6 Shelby D. Worley Auburn University 26
#6 Vitaly Vodyanoy Auburn University 26
#8 John Ferguson Cv Group 22
#9 Rodrigo Rodriguez-Kabana Auburn University 21
#10 John M. Dispennette Maxwell Technologies 20
#11 Pratibhash Chattopadhyay Ferro 19
#11 Ethan Ross Perdue Csp Technologies 19
#11 Michael D. Moffa Freedman Seating 19
#14 Bruce Tatarchuk Auburn University 18
#15 Bryan A. Chin Auburn University 17
#15 Michael C. Mitchell Rheem Manufacturing 17
#17 Fa Dai Auburn University 16
#17 Adam Carter Masterbuilt Manufacturing 16
#17 C. Joseph Farahmandi Maxwell Energy Products 16
#17 Lloyd Stephen Riggs Edison Nation Medical 16
#21 Julian Kochek Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 14
#21 Joseph W. Kloepper Auburn University 14
#23 Vishwani D. Agrawal AT&T 13
#23 Michael P. Parsons Communications Test Design 13
#23 Phillip H. Klesius USDA 13
#26 Zhongyang Cheng Auburn University 12
#26 Stephen T. Hung Visteon Global Technologies 12
#26 David Hamilton Neptune Technology Group 12
#26 Benjamin Hunt Sio2 Medical Products 12
#26 Jimmy L. Davidson Vanderbilt University 12
#26 Eddie W. Cupp Auburn University 12
#26 Mary S. Cupp Auburn University 12
#26 Robert H. Walker Auburn University 12
#34 Chwan-Hwa Wu Auburn University 11
#34 Brian Tifft Csp Technologies 11
#34 Hongyun Yang Intramicron 11
#34 David G. Beale Auburn University 11
#38 Bernhard Kaltenboeck Auburn University 10
#38 Oleg Pustovyy Auburn University 10
#38 Juan Hu Beijing Kingsoft Office Software 10
#38 William H. Batchelor Propane Carburetion Systems 10
#38 Michael C. Hamilton Auburn University 10
#38 Alexandre Samoylov Auburn University 10
#44 David F. Dyer Auburn University 9
#44 J. David Irwin Auburn University 9
#44 Junsheng Yang Nanotek Instruments Group 9
#44 Frank Myers Pvi Industries 9
#44 John R. Scarborough, III Neptune Technology Group 9
#44 Tay-Yuan Chen Auburn University 9
#44 Donald Lee Huber Csp Technologies 9

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