Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gastonia, NC ranks #2,645 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,168 patents from 344 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gastonia, NC include Fmc, Little Engine, Husqvarna Ab. That works out to 14.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 344 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Conrad W. Kamienski Fmc 53
2 Franz W. Kellar Little Engine 44
3 Robert C. Morrison Fmc 39
#4 Sean Dwyer Husqvarna Ab 33
#5 Marina Yakovleva Fmc 31
#6 Donald L. Burgoon Performance Friction 27
#7 Edward Allen Covington Dana Limited 23
#8 Michael Martin Black & Decker 22
#9 Nickolas C. Buccola, Jr. Hunter Douglas 19
#9 Charles Hughes University Of Central Florida 19
#9 Matthew K. Bryant Bank of America 19
#9 A. Reneau Van Landingham, Jr. Invue Security Products 19
#13 Susan Smith Thomas Bank of America 17
#14 Robert Jacque Goulet Nelson Global Products 15
#15 Titus Faulkner Fmc 14
#16 Franz Austen Kellar Little Engine 13
#16 Vijay C. Mehta Fmc 13
#18 Teresita Frianeza Kullberg Chemetall Foote 11
#18 Shyam Kumar Verma Fmc 11
#18 Douglas A. Cather, Jr. Garlock 11
#18 Darrell T. McKenzie Wix Filtration Corp. 11
#22 Terry L. Rathman Fmc 10
#22 Matthew Browne Nike 10
#22 Robert S. Wedinger Fmc 10
#22 George Robert Sandor Fmc 10
#26 Hugh Wang Fmc 9
#27 Joseph F. Englehart RTX (Raytheon) 8
#27 Robert H. Ferguson Mann+Hummel Filtration Technology Us 8
#27 William C. Herter Carlson Software 8
#27 Ivan Horvat Schwan-Stabilo Schwanhaeusser Gmbh & Co. Kg 8
#31 Anthony J. Sissons 7
#31 John P. Baker Georgia-Pacific Nonwovens 7
#31 Xiaosong Wu Dsm Ip Assets B.V. 7
#31 John Kelly Basf Se 7
#31 Ronald Sytz Enventys 7
#36 D. Lynn Hoover American Linc 6
#36 Dennis J. Salmon Fmc 6
#36 Richard R. Perry Epe, Incorporated 6
#36 James Flynn Husqvarna Ab 6
#36 William McNeill Sparkcognition 6
#36 James Michael Glazewski Mann+Hummel Filtration Technology Group 6
#36 John Graves Larkin Event Capture Systems 6
#36 Prakash Thyaga Palepu Fmc 6
#36 Ralph Samuel Jenkins Belmont Textile Machinery 6
#45 Bradley W. Reed Hoechst Celanese 5
#45 Timothy James Rohm Banyan Licensing L.L.C. 5
#45 Johnny H. Wong Dana Limited 5
#45 Tammy Horne Lukas Hydraulik Gmbh 5
#45 Benjamin Messer University of California 5
#45 Mitchell O. Miller Huffman 5

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