Top Inventors in Columbia, SC | Patent Leaderboard

Columbia, SC ranks #652 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 5,160 patents from 1,151 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Columbia, SC include IBM, Sensor Electronic Technology, Atombeam Technologies. That works out to 37.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,151 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Peng Xu	IBM	360
2	Remigijus Gaska	Sensor Electronic Technology	254
3	Maxim S. Shatalov	Sensor Electronic Technology	163
#4	Joshua Cooper	Atombeam Technologies	83
#5	Jinwei Yang	Sensor Electronic Technology	77
#6	Brian Benicewicz	University Of South Carolina	62
#6	Rebecca E. Lowsky	Ark Therapeutic Services	62
#8	Grigory Simin	Sensor Electronic Technology	60
#9	James W. Kronberg	US Dept of Energy	59
#10	Rakesh Jain	Sensor Electronic Technology	52
#11	Timothy James Bettles	Sensor Electronic Technology	47
#12	Srinivasan Ramanath	Saint-Gobain Abrasives	45
#13	Edwin R. Jones	—	42
#14	Dirk Brown	AMD	40
#15	Yuri Bilenko	Sensor Electronic Technology	39
#16	David B. Skinner	Shakespeare Company	36
#17	John Lowsky, Jr.	Ark Therapeutic Services	34
#18	Frank Voss	Lambda Physik Ag	33
#19	Kevin Huang	Mag Aerospace Industries	32
#19	Joseph E. Smith	Entegris	32
#21	John R. Monnier	Eastman Chemical	30
#21	Michael A. Vaudrey	Adaptive I/O Technologies	30
#23	William F. Ranson	GE	28
#23	Asif Khan	Nitek	28
#25	Willie H. Best	Char-Broil	26
#25	Andreas Enz	Lang-Mekra North America	26
#27	Igor Agafonov	Sensor Electronic Technology	24
#27	James B. Quantz	Machine Design	24
#27	Wenhong Sun	Sensor Electronic Technology	24
#27	F. David Doty	University Of South Carolina	24
#31	Vinod Adivarahan	University Of South Carolina	22
#31	John J. Tomashek	Iogen Energy	22
#31	Jeffrey Moulton	Honeywell	22
#31	Emmanuel Courbon	Lang-Mekra North America	22
#35	Murray O. Meetze, Jr.	Xerox	21
#35	Peisheng Xu	University Of South Carolina	21
#35	Michael Simcock	Halliburton Energy Services	21
#38	Ehsan Fallahmohammadi	Prysmian S.P.A.	20
#38	Stephen Gibson	Normark Innovations	20
#40	Jing-Chung Chang	E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And	19
#40	Stephen F. Ridley	Soma Research	19
#40	Michael L. Ribbich	Johnson Controls Technology	19
#43	Ben H. Wells	Prysmian S.P.A.	18
#43	Victor Giurgiutiu	University Of South Carolina	18
#43	Chuanbing Tang	University Of South Carolina	18
#43	Tangali S. Sudarshan	University Of South Carolina	18
#47	Ian Forrest	Cisco	17
#47	Gregory G. Hafner	Caterpillar	17
#49	Roland F. Dapo	North American Philips	16
#50	Mark Whitlow	Technetics Group	15

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