Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fairfax, SC ranks #3,792 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 768 patents from 229 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fairfax, SC include Sawgrass Systems, Boston Scientific Scimed, Hill-Rom Services. That works out to 510.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 229 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Nathan Hale Sawgrass Systems 34
2 Rebecca DeLegge Boston Scientific Scimed 22
3 Barry D. Hand Hill-Rom Services 20
#4 Michael D. Matzinger Westvaco 19
#5 Vladimir Mironov Cropdesign N.V. 17
#5 Nathaniel Taylor Brockman Causam Enterprises 17
#7 Kerry J. Mensching Hill-Rom Services 15
#7 Stephen Y. Lin Reed Lignin 15
#9 Xuejun Wen Clemson University 14
#10 Carol A. Feghali-Bostwick University Of Pittsburgh 12
#11 Michael A. Lake Avery Dennison Retail Information Services 11
#11 Michael Rosier Sap Se 11
#13 Sukun Zhang Sawgrass Technologies 10
#13 Robert Rife 10
#13 John W. Gowan, Jr. Westvaco 10
#16 Brandon M. Courter The Boeing 9
#16 Mark Lanning Hill-Rom Services 9
#18 Kenneth J. Meyer Carrier 8
#18 John R. Powers The Procter & Gamble 8
#18 Eugene Pretorius Nucor 8
#18 Don Duncan Westvaco 8
#18 Abdul Sattar Bayer Healthcare 8
#23 Stanley Harris Lifeline Scientific 7
#23 Ramazan Benrashid Synergeyes 7
#23 Andrea H. Marshall Clinical Biotechnology Research Institute At Rsfh 7
#23 David H. Hawes 7
#23 Ying Song Organ Recovery Systems 7
#23 Julie Chao University Of Central Florida 7
#23 Murray P. Hammick Force Protection Industries 7
#23 Major Murphy Sawgrass Technologies 7
#23 Zhiquan Yan Westvaco 7
#32 Andrea L. Lewis Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 6
#32 Thomas Uzzle Hill-Rom Services 6
#32 Deron Nettles 6
#32 Richard John Stanton Healthy Human 6
#32 James Norris Musc Foundation For Research Development 6
#32 Hai Yao Clemson University 6
#32 Thomas A. Dix Medical University Of South Carolina 6
#32 Paul J. Zuraw Westvaco 6
#32 Robert J. Pappas Adobe 6
#41 Stanley C. Adams Westvaco 5
#41 John W. Noble Westvaco 5
#41 Julie Weldon Hickory Springs Manufacturing 5
#41 John L. Jordan, Jr. Environmental Monitoring Systems 5
#41 Martin G. Crosby 5
#41 Zhen Zhang 5
#41 Joseph M. Dray The Boeing 5
#41 Vince Beachley Rowan University 5
#41 Carl Atkinson Musc Foundation For Research Development 5
#50 Wengan Wu Sun Chemical 4

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