Top Inventors in Franklin, TN | Patent Leaderboard

Franklin, TN ranks #1,245 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,702 patents from 577 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Franklin, TN include Mars, Incorporated, Vanderbilt University, Oreck Holdings. That works out to 32.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 577 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Peter Slusarczyk	Mars, Incorporated	62
2	Michael Goldfarb	Vanderbilt University	53
3	Jason Michael Friedland	Mars, Incorporated	48
#4	Christopher M. Paterson	Oreck Holdings	45
#5	James W. Lowry	Sonoco Development	44
#6	Jean-Luc Dufour	Kennametal	43
#7	Gene W. Brown	Baldwin Filters	42
#8	B. Ryland Wiggs	Earth To Air Systems	41
#9	Robert G. Wiley	3Sae Technologies	39
#10	Samuel E. Lynch	Biomimetic Therapeutics	35
#11	Joshua P. Abell	Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations	29
#12	Vivek S. Narayanan	Amazon	28
#12	Rebecca Morgan Valentine	Mars, Incorporated	28
#12	Steven M. Jones	Adac Laboratories	28
#15	Robert Schultz	Emson Research	27
#16	Martin Bryant	Idenix Pharmaceuticals	25
#16	Randy Sims	Pacific Market International	25
#16	Matthew D. Green	Chameleon Holding	25
#19	Alan Scott	Hca Holdings	24
#19	James R. Parker	BOE	24
#21	Samuel Fox	Fox Hardwood Lumber Company	23
#21	Mark T. Lane	Tensorx	23
#23	David C. Palmer	Johnson & Johnson	22
#23	Bruce S. Jones	Nu-Kote International	22
#25	Troy D. Ward	Systems Spray-Cooled	21
#25	James E. Scott	Hughes Aircraft	21
#27	Charles David Weaver	Vanderbilt University	20
#27	Ronald R. Price	US Air Force	20
#27	Thomas Andrew Doyle	C/Hca	20
#27	J. Michael Cude	Coeur	20
#31	Roger L. DeYoung	Campbell Hausfeld / Scott Fetzer	19
#31	Darwin C. Olson	Dana Limited	19
#31	James M. Suttle	Mars, Incorporated	19
#34	Wendy H. Clayton	State Farm	18
#35	Jon Yarbrough	Video Gaming Technologies	17
#35	Robert T. Hall, II	Minntech	17
#37	John Clare Brocklebank	Sas Institute	16
#37	Paul Currie	C/Hca	16
#37	Franz Baudenbacher	Vanderbilt University	16
#37	Barry George Dean	Patroness	16
#37	Earl S. Swensson	Wellnesys	16
#42	James M. Rynerson	Blephex	15
#43	James R. Taylor	University Of British Columbia	14
#43	Raymond Mernaugh	Vanderbilt University	14
#43	Christopher Hume	Lattice Semiconductor	14
#46	Joel Thornton	Aries Clean Technologies	13
#46	Thomas W. Rogers	Cequent Electrical Products	13
#46	Michael I. Miga	Vanderbilt University	13
#49	Matthew Newman	Aries Clean Technologies	12
#49	Tommy Fox	Fox Hardwood Lumber Company	12

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