Top Inventors in Bedford, VA | Patent Leaderboard

Bedford, VA ranks #15,337 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 102 patents from 48 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bedford, VA include Smith Mountain Industries, Simplimatic Engineering, Novozymes Bioag A/S. That works out to 15.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–48 of 48 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Mark A. Spangler	Smith Mountain Industries	14
2	Brian K. Hilbish	Simplimatic Engineering	9
3	Stanley Korn	—	6
#4	Emily Barnett	Novozymes Bioag A/S	4
#4	Franz X Beisser, III	—	4
#4	Jennifer Choate	Smith Mountain Industries	4
#7	Dwight Smith	Salem Vent International	3
#7	David E. Waskey	Areva Gmbh	3
#7	John M. Lehmann	Mcdermott Technology	3
#7	Karthik Nagarathnam	—	3
#7	Melvin W. Sutphin	GE	3
#7	Donald H. Stanley	Itt Manufacturing Enterprises	3
#13	Jerry W. Mitchem	The Babcock & Wilcox	2
#13	Charles Perkins	—	2
#13	Sandra D. Alden	Commscope Technologies	2
#13	Emily Looze	Novozymes Bioag A/S	2
#13	Carrie L. Kozikowski	International Telephone And Telegraph	2
#13	William Maxey, III	Fes Co.	2
#13	Dennis Turpin	Fca Us Llc.	2
#20	Merl J. Bell	B&W Nuclear Technologies	1
#20	Marvin M. Grimsley	—	1
#20	John K. Boardman, Jr.	—	1
#20	Charles F. Hurt	—	1
#20	Gregg A. Church	Mccormick & Company	1
#20	Alyse N. Hilton	Signature Science	1
#20	Richard Zirbel	—	1
#20	Alan B. Mansfield	—	1
#20	Karl E. Balliet	—	1
#20	Andrew B. Claytor, III	—	1
#20	Brian Knapp	Ppg Industries Ohio	1
#20	Jeremy Bandy	—	1
#20	Martin Barringer	—	1
#20	Julian Lindsay	—	1
#20	Harvey Witcher	—	1
#20	Matt Akenhead	—	1
#20	Jeremiah W. Mosse	US Air Force	1
#20	Dimick D. Heller	—	1
#20	Mark Plymale	Delaware Capital Formation	1
#20	Saint Nazario-Camacho	Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration	1
#20	Stephen Zajkowski	Lockheed Martin	1
#20	Rodney Gene Gustad	Danville Automation Holdings	1
#20	John Regier	Hni Technologies	1
#20	Clayton F. Helvey	—	1
#20	Marty Nelson Witt	Simplimatic Engineering	1
#20	Willie Ferguson	—	1
#20	Linda Susan Frisbee	—	1
#20	Lance Barland	Mediatek	1
#20	Gary D. Coe	—	1

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