Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fort Mill, SC ranks #1,773 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,871 patents from 349 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fort Mill, SC include Invue Security Products, General Instrument, Bank of America. That works out to 76.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 349 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gary A. Taylor Invue Security Products 76
2 Christopher G. Franck General Instrument 57
3 Jonathon D. Phillips Invue Security Products 53
#4 Kerry Michelle Cantley Bank of America 38
#5 Eric White Celgard 37
#5 Alicia C. Jones Bank of America 37
#5 Michael John Watson ICI 37
#8 Austin Unsworth Dental Equipment 36
#8 Matthew Lamb Continental Reifen Deutschland Gmbh 36
#10 Donn J. Costanzo, Jr. Thatbox Design 33
#11 David J. Walsh E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 31
#12 Jeffrey J. Parker IBM 28
#13 Dennis Roffe Schaeffler 27
#13 Harish A. Amin Foundations Worldwide , Inc . 27
#15 Kerry Kurt Simpkins Bank of America 26
#15 Barath Jayaraman Truist Bank 26
#15 Charles Schwab Schaeffler 26
#18 Hiep V. Nguyen Us Conec 25
#19 Matthew Thomas Kerley Invue Security Products 24
#19 James E. Hendrix Springs Industries 24
#21 Robert E. Brown Zygo 23
#22 David T. Frew Bank of America 21
#23 Michael Gerald Smith Bank of America 20
#24 Tomas M. Castrejon, III Bank of America 19
#25 Neelakantam V. Narendranath Poet Research 18
#25 Wesley J. Blanchard Otto Industries North America 18
#25 Eric Von Fange The Light Source 18
#25 Paul Joseph Lyman Schottland Disintermediation Services 18
#29 Changqing Wang Adams Celgard 17
#29 William J. Curtin Amtel Communications 17
#29 Donald A. Richardson Paccar 17
#32 Jose M. Rodriguez Geo Specialty Chemicals 16
#32 Venkata Kottapalli Schaeffler 16
#34 Harshad Pande Domtar Paper Company 15
#34 George L. Payet The Procter & Gamble 15
#34 Valerie Caron Blanqi 15
#37 Tammy L. Brunswig Bank of America 13
#37 Ronald W. Call Celgard 13
#37 Jerry Sandy Husqvarna Ab 13
#37 Gerald A. Myers Westinghouse Electric 13
#41 Robert Nark Celgard 12
#41 Stuart Laval Duke Energy 12
#41 Leonard Giambalvo Virtual Strongbox 12
#44 Neal Aaron Slensker Bank of America 11
#44 Remi Thiria Elkem Silicones Usa 11
#44 Sayanti Basu Honeywell 11
#47 Peter L. Tucker Sentek Pty 10
#48 Robert E. Lordo Pacific Scientific 9
#48 Gerald P. Rumierz Celgard 9
#48 Frank Papp Lehigh Technologies 9

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