Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Beckley, WV ranks #13,013 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 133 patents from 61 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Beckley, WV include Impulse Nc, Coaltex, Basf Se. That works out to 7.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 61 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Thomas A. Young Impulse Nc 15
2 Velayudhan Sahadevan 13
3 Frank A. Delli-Gatti, Jr. Coaltex 7
3 Riley D. Robbins 7
#5 Jack Vaughan 5
#5 Alfred A. Hurt 5
#7 Richard W. Bland 4
#7 Lowell Cogar 4
#7 Patrick A. Lovell 4
#10 Robert W. Schuetz Basf Se 3
#10 Joseph Alan Zupanich Vitruvian Exploration 3
#10 John C. Morrisey, IV The Doe Run 3
#10 John T. Joyce, Jr. Evonik Stockhausen Gmbh 3
#14 John L. Denny 2
#14 Frank K. Stafford 2
#14 Terry Mike Jude 2
#14 David L. McDorman 2
#14 Janet Faye McKinney 2
#14 Robert C. Nasby 2
#14 Timothy Wayne Warden 2
#14 Larry B. McKinney 2
#14 Daniel Bickey Unknown 2
#23 Jerry L. Bays 1
#23 James J. Tartal 1
#23 R. Ford Denison Department Of Agriculture 1
#23 Jack R. Fairchild The Fairchild 1
#23 Walter E. Watson, III Allied Chemical 1
#23 Basil E. Rogers Unknown 1
#23 Stephen L. Richardson 1
#23 Roy R. Rogers Unknown 1
#23 Morris Ravich Techline Technologies 1
#23 Mason Hines 1
#23 Derothia D. James 1
#23 William Dale Woolum Associated Leisure Products 1
#23 Joseph T. Ingram 1
#23 Benson Hunley 1
#23 Craig Kompa 1
#23 William V. McClanahan 1
#23 Raymond S. Coon 1
#23 Toney D. Diciuccio 1
#23 Virupax C. Baligar Dravo Lime 1
#23 K. Dale Ritchey Dravo Lime 1
#23 Tom A Weeks Unknown 1
#23 Ralph Rinehart 1
#23 Jack Tyree Unknown 1
#23 James Russell Cullop Unknown 1
#23 Marshall S. Collins 1
#23 Edgar Stuart Cornett 1
#23 George Elmer Shriver 1
#23 Jason Wilkerson 1

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