Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Greenville, SC ranks #355 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,814 patents from 1,770 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Greenville, SC include GE, Silicon Laboratories, One World Technologies Limited. That works out to 124.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,770 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam GE 162
2 Jon Conrad Schaeffer GE 87
3 Jeffrey L. Sonntag Silicon Laboratories 74
#4 James Robert Tobin GE 71
#5 Willy Steve Ziminsky GE 70
#6 David Edward Schick GE 59
#6 Daniel Alex Chunn One World Technologies Limited 59
#8 Canan Uslu Hardwicke GE 57
#8 Brian G. Morin Milliken & 57
#10 Christopher Daniel Caruso GE 55
#11 Nathan A. Scolari Zike 54
#12 Guy R. VanBuskirk Theatro Labs 53
#13 Stefan Herr GE 52
#14 Kurt Kramer Schleif GE 50
#15 Victor John Morgan GE 49
#16 Robert Fox Vis 47
#17 Stanley Kevin Widener GE 46
#18 Christian Xavier Stevenson GE 44
#19 Gerald L. Barber 43
#20 Harold Lamar Jordan, Jr. GE 42
#21 Thomas P. Hartness International 40
#21 Scott Arthur Day GE 40
#21 Donald L. Smith Xerox 40
#24 William E. Masters 39
#24 Michael James Healy GE 39
#24 Paul W. Lewis, Jr. Cooper Technologies 39
#24 Kevin Keller Amazon 39
#28 Rex Allen Morgan GE 38
#29 Charles F. Palmer, Jr. Ethox Chemicals 36
#30 Randy Lewis Hubbell Incorporated 35
#30 Timothy B. Rhyne Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin 35
#30 Robert C. Beesley Illinois Tool Works 35
#30 Sandip Dutta GE 35
#34 Robert Radulescu Michelin 34
#35 Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin GE 33
#36 Achalesh Kumar Pandey GE 32
#37 Chad James Vis 31
#37 David William Cihlar GE 31
#39 Joseph F. Maniscalco IBM 30
#40 Donald L. Nisley Reliance Electric Industrial 29
#40 Andres Jose Garcia-Crespo GE 29
#40 Gunnar Leif Siden GE 29
#40 Stephen Bertram Johnson GE 29
#40 Taras Z. Andrukh Structured I 29
#45 Ryan Altenburger Techtronic Cordless Gp 28
#45 Brian Peter Arness GE 28
#47 Thomas C. White James C. White Company 27
#47 Michael James Dutka GE 27
#47 Jacob John Kittleson GE 27
#47 Hua Sun AMD 27

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