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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Covington, VA ranks #8,853 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 239 patents from 76 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Covington, VA include Westvaco, Ingevity South Carolina, Hanwha Azdel. That works out to 41.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 76 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Barry G. Calvert Westvaco 21
2 Peter D. McCrae Ingevity South Carolina 15
3 Mark O. Mason Hanwha Azdel 12
#4 Mark Mellon Westvaco 11
#5 John DeLigt Westvaco 10
#6 Thomas M. Neider Champion International Corporation Limited 9
#7 Willem A. Nikkel Westvaco 8
#7 Robert L. Beran Westvaco 8
#9 Edward P. Klein Westvaco 7
#9 John C. McCue Westvaco 7
#11 Leo Thomas Mulcahy Westvaco 6
#11 Robinson Camden Perkins Claytor Westvaco 6
#11 Robert G. Mann Gala Industies 6
#14 William H. Jamison Hubbell Incorporated 5
#14 Richard Marion Mansell 5
#14 Michael L. Shepard Westvaco 5
#17 Stephen Nicholson Westvaco 4
#18 William J. Thurston Westvaco 3
#18 Joseph E. White Genicom 3
#18 Stephen J. Paradis Westvaco 3
#18 Michael L. Marziale Westvaco 3
#18 Cecil E. Meyerhoeffer, Jr. 3
#18 Mark A. Hank Westvaco 3
#18 Donald Frank Rogowski Westvaco 3
#18 Charles W. Pruitt 3
#18 David D. Mulligan Westvaco 3
#27 Denny Earl Davis, II 2
#27 Harold A. Fuller Westvaco 2
#27 Steven Mark Crawford Westvaco 2
#27 Robert Burks Scruggs, II Westvaco 2
#27 Charles Allen Bartley Westvaco 2
#27 Toney Reid Humphries, II Gala Industies 2
#27 Steven Herman Parker Westvaco 2
#27 Annette Marie Comer Applied Extrusion Technologies 2
#27 Harry W. Robertson, IV Westvaco 2
#27 Malcolm E. Clare 2
#27 George L. Coffman 2
#27 Roger Wayne Ogden Westvaco 2
#27 Humphrey J. Moynihan Westrock Mwv 2
#27 Partha S. Chaudhuri Westvaco 2
#27 Michael L. Massey Westvaco 2
#27 Ernest J. Groome Westvaco 2
#27 Nicholas T. Kern Westvaco 2
#44 Timothy H. Sparks Westvaco 1
#44 David E. Sauriol Westvaco 1
#44 Leonard Robert Lindstrom Westvaco 1
#44 Howard Wood 1
#44 Kurt D. Bogle US Air Force 1
#44 Michele D. Hinton 1
#44 Wendell L. Paxton Westvaco 1

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