Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Huntsville, AL ranks #442 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 7,318 patents from 1,894 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Huntsville, AL include Correlated Magnetics Research, Nektar Therapeutics, Furminator. That works out to 34.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,894 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark D. Roberts Correlated Magnetics Research 186
2 Antoni Kozlowski Nektar Therapeutics 140
3 Michael D. Bentley Nektar Therapeutics 136
#4 David R. Porter Furminator 82
#5 J. Milton Harris Nektar Therapeutics 79
#6 Richard L. Goodson Adtran 67
#7 George T. Pinson The Boeing 62
#8 Joo-Han Kim Samsung 60
#9 David C. Sayles US Army 57
#10 John E. Thompson Senesco Technologies 49
#11 Kevin W. Schneider Adtran 48
#11 Larry D. Frederick Strata Safety Products 48
#13 Hans Gregory Schantz Q-Track 45
#14 Robert A. Smith The Boeing 43
#15 Wade C. Patterson 42
#16 Timothy E. Taylor Endius Incorporated 36
#16 Max Klein Unknown 36
#18 Jian Han Irepertoire 34
#18 Mike LeBlanc Comcast 34
#20 Robert W. Jones US Army 32
#21 Michael Scalora Intuit 31
#22 Robert E. Betts US Army 30
#23 Robert O. Baron, Sr. Baron Services 29
#23 Christopher Radzinski Comcast 29
#25 William Welch Time Domain 28
#26 Arlynn Wayne Wilson Adtran 27
#27 Brian Huston Ham The Heil 26
#27 Kapil Pant Cfd Research 26
#27 Jon W. Martin Trw Limited 26
#27 Ramachandran Narayanamurthy Ice Energy Holdings 26
#31 Valentin Korman K Sciences Gp 25
#31 Herbert U. Fluhler Time Domain 25
#33 David K. Mefford The Boeing 24
#33 James S. Finn Time Domain 24
#35 Brian Bray Nektar Therapeutics 23
#36 Bruce Weddendorf NASA 22
#37 Richard L. Hartman US Army 21
#37 Richard B. Kosten Black & Decker 21
#37 Paul Hammond Strata Safety Products 21
#37 Walter E. Miller, Jr. US Army 21
#37 Steven F. Selby Chrysler Group 21
#37 Andrew W. Wilson Adaptec 21
#43 William F. Otto US Army 20
#43 W. Neill Myers NASA 20
#43 Hong Ku Park 20
#43 Amir Leon Liaghati The Boeing 20
#47 Robert M. Rice Ecoservices 19
#47 John White Yale Security 19
#47 Clifford L. Hall Adtran 19
#50 Thomas M. Dempsey Sylvansport 18

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