Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Decatur, GA ranks #775 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,382 patents from 856 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Decatur, GA include Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, AT&T, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited. That works out to 175.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 856 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John Gavin MacDonald Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 176
2 Linda Roberts AT&T 169
3 Daniel Marks Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited 168
#4 Mark R. Ligameri Microsoft 161
#5 Howard M. Marks Igt 83
#6 Devin Lee Moore Conair 76
#7 Judson John Flynn AT&T 69
#7 Michael S. DeFranks Dreamwell 69
#9 Jason Loomis Seasons 4 64
#10 Anita Hogans Simpson AT&T 56
#10 Robert J. Starr AT&T 56
#12 Xuemin Chen Shenzhen Sunxing Light Alloys Materials Co. 51
#13 Eric Boese Aristocrat Technologies 47
#14 Scott C. Holt Bellsouth 44
#15 Ruoya Wang Avent 35
#16 Damian James Reec Mycroft 34
#17 Forrest Starnes McCanless Abl Ip Holding 32
#18 Clay E. Ringold Georgia-Pacific Chemicals 30
#19 Samuel C. Crosby 29
#20 James Blake Fievet Big Time Products 28
#21 Robert Kriegel 27
#21 Evan Hurst Airwatch 27
#23 James Patrick Hanley Landis+Gyr Innovations 26
#23 Joel A. Davis AT&T 26
#25 James G. Ronca Bank of America 25
#25 James David Ross Axion Biosystems 25
#25 Bernard Kippelen Georgia Tech Research 25
#25 Bao Trong Do Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 25
#29 John S. Lollar Emory University 24
#30 Joel Grayson Webber Fullstory 23
#31 Daniel S. Rice Oracle 21
#32 Jaehyung Park Samsung 20
#32 Warren Jones Children'S Healthcare Of Atlanta 20
#32 Peter R. Abitz Gp Cellulose Gmbh 20
#35 Patrick G. Traynor University of Florida 19
#35 Matthew Easley That 19
#35 Jason P. Pawloski Igt 19
#35 Raghavendran Mahalingam Nuventix 19
#39 Lee Dicks Clark Microsoft 18
#40 Bradford Reese Kids Ii Hape Joint Venture Limited 17
#40 Hans Utz Nissan North America 17
#42 Larry Woodring AT&T 16
#42 Manohar T. Saindane Bristol-Myers Squibb 16
#42 Sudip Rahman Khan Ncr 16
#42 Scott Morris AT&T 16
#42 Michael James Flint Pfizer 16
#47 Ted Michael Davis Utility Associates 15
#48 Kai Huei Chang Heraeus Quartz North America 14
#48 Richard Timmer Reddy Us Therapeutics 14
#48 Mark D. Dennard IBM 14

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