Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Columbus, GA ranks #3,612 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 816 patents from 290 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Columbus, GA include W.C. Bradley, Masterbuilt Manufacturing, Bayer Materialscience Ag. That works out to 3.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 290 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mallik Ahmed W.C. Bradley 34
2 Wesley J. Wagner W.C. Bradley 26
3 Don McLemore Masterbuilt Manufacturing 23
#4 Thorsten Rische Bayer Materialscience Ag 19
#4 William C. Turner W.C. Bradley 19
#6 James B. Hawkins Lummus Industries 17
#6 Douglas Cole Heatcraft Refrigeration Products 17
#8 James G. Salter 14
#8 Ronald Gedrich JPMorgan Chase 14
#10 RAMIN KHOSRAVI RAHMANI W.C. Bradley 12
#10 J. Kenneth Burkus Warsaw Orthopedic 12
#12 Aaron Lee Hampton Eotech 11
#12 SLEIMAN ABDALLAH W.C. Bradley 11
#14 Nguyen Van-Det 10
#15 Alex Gafford W.C. Bradley 9
#15 Dan Corso W.C. Bradley 9
#15 John D. Dorchak Warsaw Orthopedic 9
#18 Tommy W. Webb Lummus Industries 8
#18 Scott L. Wayland Faultless Starch/Bon Ami 8
#18 Sanket Gandhi Integrity Bio-Chemicals 8
#18 Robert J. Hitch W.C. Bradley 8
#22 Robert Winfred Hines Drifire 7
#22 William D. Beeland Lummus Industries 7
#22 Kenneth Jordan W.C. Bradley 7
#22 Roger R. Moore, Jr. Delaware Capital Formation 7
#22 Patrick Lee Pollard Baby'S Dream Furniture 7
#22 Geoffrey Allen Monteith Kemira Chemicals 7
#28 James R. Carden Masterbuilt Manufacturing 6
#28 John M. Conner Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 6
#28 Terry L. McKenzie Ffi 6
#28 Chris Cantrell W.C. Bradley 6
#28 Chera Selvan Neelagantan Heatcraft Refrigeration Products 6
#28 Ashley Hatcher Masterbuilt Manufacturing 6
#28 Ted Bacon Hunter Fan 6
#35 Christian Plazas Workiva 5
#35 Chandrashekhara Chikkakalbalu Heatcraft Refrigeration Products 5
#35 Curtis J. Rodencal Integrity Bio-Chemicals 5
#35 Francis W. Carpenter, III Lummus Industries 5
#35 Christopher S. Postell Worldpay 5
#35 William A. Harmon Lummus Industries 5
#35 Keith Helms Group Dekko 5
#42 Richard T. Underwood Callaway 4
#42 Wilbur G. Hudson Lummus Industries 4
#42 Thomas A. Stevenson Valspar 4
#42 James T. Morgan, Jr. US Air Force 4
#42 John C. Reddy Snap-On Tools 4
#42 Joseph B. Craven, Jr. W.C. Bradley 4
#42 Jacob Barnes RTX (Raytheon) 4
#42 WILLIAM DIXON W.C. Bradley 4
#42 Bradley R. Gillespie W.C. Bradley 4

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