Top Inventors in Birmingham, AL | Patent Leaderboard

Birmingham, AL ranks #669 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 5,016 patents from 1,401 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Birmingham, AL include Gen-Probe Incorporated, Thomas & Betts International, Biocryst Pharmaceuticals. That works out to 25.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,401 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Robert J. Smith	Gen-Probe Incorporated	115
1	Cong Thanh Dinh	Thomas & Betts International	115
3	Yarlagadda S. Babu	Biocryst Pharmaceuticals	69
#4	John A. Montgomery	Southern Research Institute	55
#5	Frederick Diggle	Bellsouth Intellectual Property	54
#6	Raymond E. Ideker	The Uab Research Foundation	53
#7	Rory S. Rehmert	Meadowcraft	51
#8	Pravin L. Kotian	Biocryst Pharmaceuticals	48
#9	Jackie Hogan	Meadowcraft	45
#10	Arthur J. Tipton	Durect	43
#11	John A. Secrist, III	Southern Research Institute	39
#12	Lee R. Beck	Stolle Research & Development	37
#13	Scott Doty	Masco Corporation Of Indiana	36
#14	Pooran Chand	Biocryst Pharmaceuticals	34
#14	Kenneth L. Horton	Nutech Spine	34
#16	V. Satish Kumar	Biocryst Pharmaceuticals	31
#16	Donald R. Cowsar	Atrix Laboratories	31
#18	David E. Briles	The Uab Research Foundation	29
#18	Daniel Hughes	Crimson Trace	29
#20	James P. English	Guilford Pharmaceuticals	28
#21	James R. Arthur, Jr.	Josan	26
#21	Guohai Liu	—	26
#23	Subramaniam Ananthan	Southern Research Institute	25
#24	Seth Cohen	Patty	24
#24	Matthew C. Smith	RTX (Raytheon)	24
#26	Beatrice H. Hahn	Duke University	23
#27	Stephen Barnes	Memx	22
#28	Gattadahalli M. Anantharamaiah	University of California	21
#28	Jerry C. Camp, Jr.	Meadowcraft	21
#28	Ilya Frolov	University Of Texas System	21
#28	John Baird	Motorola	21
#28	Shanta Bantia	Biocryst Pharmaceuticals	21
#33	Robert A. Casper	Innovatio Devices	20
#33	Lawrence J. DeLucas	The Uab Research Foundation	20
#35	Charles A. Long, Jr.	Long Technologies	19
#35	Robert P. Kimberly	The Uab Research Foundation	19
#37	Joseph Horton	Musc Foundation For Research Development	18
#37	David Diehl Roberts, III	Cooper Technologies	18
#37	Dong Jin Lim	Skc Co.	18
#37	Walter A. Shaw	Avanti Polar Lipids	18
#41	Charles H. King	Noble Drilling Services	17
#41	John K. Wakefield	Baker Hughes, A Ge Company	17
#41	Steve Cox	Electricity North West Property Limited	17
#41	Timothy M. Le Roy	Meadowcraft	17
#45	William B. Parker	Southern Research Institute	16
#45	Lloyd Guyton Bowers Cooper	Warsaw Orthopedic	16
#45	Howard P. Walthall, Jr.	Nutech Spine	16
#45	Jack Lockhart	J. Baxter Brinkman International	16
#49	Gary Click	Vae Nortrak North America	15
#49	Pannalal Vimalchand	—	15

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