Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bowling Green, KY ranks #2,312 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,358 patents from 245 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bowling Green, KY include Whirlpool, Heathco, Span Tech. That works out to 18.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 245 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Farhad Ashrafzadeh Whirlpool 74
2 Scott Blaise Tylicki Heathco 63
3 James L. Layne Span Tech 62
#4 Andrey V. Livchak Oy Halton Group 56
#5 Derek W. Schrock Oy Halton Group 42
#6 Coy Hudnall Holley Performance Products 37
#7 Robert L. Watson Weyerhaeuser Nr 33
#8 Frank Kelley St. Charles R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 31
#9 Lionel V. Luu Heathco 26
#10 Henry Wohltjen Microsensor Systems 24
#11 Miles William McDonald Heathco 22
#11 Thomas W. Tomlinson Holley Performance Products 22
#13 Jon A. Bigley Warn Industries 21
#13 Laura Shehan Holley Performance Products 21
#15 James D. Dralle Holley Performance Products 20
#15 Joseph B. Lee, Jr. Procom Heating 20
#15 Leeman Elliot Stevens Heathco 20
#15 Corey Spainhoward Holley Performance Products 20
#19 Kushagra Dixit Heathco 19
#20 John Colvin Deaton Heathco 18
#20 Amer Salihovic Heathco 18
#20 Shane Weckerly Holley Performance Products 18
#23 Darrin W. Beardslee Oy Halton Group 17
#24 Jonathan Sams Holley Performance Products 16
#25 Norman L. Holy Rohm And Haas 14
#25 Eugene C. Briggs Black Gold 14
#27 Oswald Baasch Holley Performance Products 13
#28 Henry Steen Vaon 12
#28 Griffin Bland Desa Ip 12
#28 Robert M. Haynes Holley Performance Products 12
#31 Derek W. Dice Lee Masonry Products 11
#32 Douglas Flynn Holley Performance Products 9
#32 William G. Buckman, Sr. Buckman Jet Drilling 9
#32 Ross Everhard Hennessy Industries 9
#32 Craig Higginbotham Desa Ip 9
#36 Marvin Benoit Pow Engineering 8
#36 Chad Holleman Fruit Of The Loom 8
#36 Vladimir Dobrokhotov Vaon 8
#36 Jonathan Aparicio Fruit Of The Loom 8
#36 Eric M. Kaltenmark Desa International 8
#36 Matthew D. Lunsford Holley Performance Products 8
#36 Roger Dennis Cornett Desa Ip 8
#43 William Calvin Raper Heathco 7
#43 David E. Heath Landmark Graphics 7
#43 Colin R. Alexander Holley Performance Products 7
#43 Jason Gieske Panasonic 7
#43 Gregory L. Sibalich Heathco 7
#43 Brian Alan Warren Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 7
#43 William Beck Novelis 7
#50 Robert F. Shaftner Koehring 6

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