Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Clemson, SC ranks #2,524 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,230 patents from 297 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Clemson, SC include GE, Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials, Sila Nanotechnologies. That works out to 69.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 297 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Aaron A. Yarbrough GE 67
2 Michael K. Gallagher Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 60
3 Bogdan Zdyrko Sila Nanotechnologies 45
#4 Clinton C. Thackery Tti (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited 32
#5 Rhett Smith Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories 29
#5 Xiaofei Jiang Pacesetter 29
#5 Christopher Holman Techtronic Cordless Gp 29
#8 John Ballato Clemson University 25
#9 William C. Buck Jacobs Chuck Manufacturing 24
#10 Darryl D. Desmarteau Ausimont S.R.L. 23
#11 Zhuochen Shi Electrolux Home Products 22
#12 Eric G. Johnson Digitaloptics 18
#12 Kevin C. Miles Power Tool Holders Incorporated 18
#14 Kiyo Hoshino Emerson Electric 17
#15 Timothy Willis Electrolux Home Products 15
#16 Mark S. Huggins Power Tool Holders Incorporated 14
#17 Benjamin A. Gaddis Power Tool Holders Incorporated 13
#17 R. Kenneth Marcus Clemson University 13
#19 Judson D. Ryckman Intel 12
#19 Narendra Vyavahare Clemson University 12
#19 Bhuvenesh C. Goswami 12
#22 Eugen A. Bordeianu Jacobs Chuck Manufacturing 11
#22 Alvon C. Elrod Clemson University 11
#24 Robert C. Dalton 10
#24 Keith Buddendeck Xerox 10
#24 Marek W. Urban University Of Southern Mississippi 10
#24 Ronald L. Thomas Abbott 10
#28 Christoph W. Aurich Gaston Systems 9
#28 Richard Czerw Clemson University 9
#28 Andreas F. von Recum Clemson University 9
#28 Keith Corzine University of California 9
#28 Christopher S. Tennant Power Tool Institute 9
#33 George Wallace Parker-Hannifin 8
#33 Jeffrey Adelberg Clemson University 8
#33 Hiren Shah Clemson University 8
#33 John David DesJardins Clemson University 8
#33 Clarence E. Hood, Jr. Clemson University 8
#38 Jose A. Briones 7
#38 Charles C. Fain Clemson University 7
#38 Kyle S. Brinkman Clemson University 7
#38 Eric Montgomery Lucas Apple 7
#38 James S. Wolf University of California 7
#38 Susan Roweton Poly-Med 7
#38 Ya-Ping Sun Clemson University 7
#38 Jeoung Soo Lee Adhezion Biomedical 7
#38 William H. Cutts 7
#47 Richard W. Rice ExxonMobil 6
#47 Samuel G. Parler, Jr. Cornell Dubilier Marketing 6
#47 Frederick Alan Payne University Of Kentucky 6
#47 Francis W. Cooke Clemson University 6

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