Top Inventors in Big Stone Gap, VA

Big Stone Gap, VA ranks #12,141 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 149 patents from 35 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Big Stone Gap, VA include Eastman Chemical, Prototype Productions Incorporated Ventures Two, Dell Products. That works out to 28.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–35 of 35 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	William R. Darnell	Eastman Chemical	26
2	James S. Dodd	Prototype Productions Incorporated Ventures Two	13
3	Roger Blood	Dell Products	10
#4	Rick Shroeder	Stanley Furniture Company	8
#4	Glenn Prillaman	Stanley Furniture Company	8
#4	Larry Wayne Blair	Eastman Chemical	8
#4	Kelly Wood Chandler	Tempur-Pedic Management	8
#8	Tonny D. Travis	—	7
#9	Kevin A. Bruzzesi	Illinois Tool Works	6
#9	W. Ronald Darnell	Eastman Kodak	6
#11	Jonathan Horton	Eastman Chemical	5
#12	William J. Peters	Amvest Systems	4
#12	Gerald L. Ehlers	RTX (Raytheon)	4
#12	Lawrence K. Baker	—	4
#15	Gerald F. Kramer	Alemite	3
#15	Peter David Hirschberg	Aol	3
#17	Dorothy Winters	—	2
#17	Melissa Dawn Page	Eastman Chemical	2
#17	Robert Coffman	—	2
#17	James Rutherford	Kennametal	2
#17	Randy Lynn Jennings	Eastman Chemical	2
#17	Bradley A Calhoun	—	2
#17	Anthony Everett Sileo	United States Postal Service	2
#24	Jack D. Game	Unknown	1
#24	John W. Milden	—	1
#24	Mark Carl Barton	Aeroastro	1
#24	James Kopp	Smart Tools	1
#24	Audley Rhoton	—	1
#24	Shelia Richards	—	1
#24	Vincent Bart Hensley	—	1
#24	Kim Lee Mcafee	The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services	1
#24	Leslie Taylor Baker	Eastman Chemical	1
#24	Daniel McMurray	—	1
#24	Christine B. Jones	—	1
#24	Irvin Coates	—	1

Part of Virginia

Big Stone Gap, VA All Time