Top Inventors in Kingsport, TN | Patent Leaderboard

Kingsport, TN ranks #504 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,550 patents from 821 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Kingsport, TN include Eastman Kodak, Eastman Chemical, Fuisz Technologies. That works out to 118.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 821 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Max A. Weaver	Eastman Kodak	163
2	Thauming Kuo	Eastman Chemical	82
3	Winston J. Jackson, Jr.	Eastman Kodak	79
#4	Garry L. Myers	Fuisz Technologies	74
#5	Emmett Dudley Crawford	Eastman Chemical	72
#6	Mesfin Ejerssa Janka	Eastman Chemical	70
#6	Lee Reynolds Partin	Eastman Chemical	70
#8	Michael Eugene Donelson	Eastman Chemical	69
#9	Thomas Joseph Pecorini	Eastman Chemical	66
#10	Joseph Robert Zoeller	Eastman Chemical	64
#10	Neil Warren Boaz	Eastman Chemical	64
#12	Mark S. Pavlin	Arizona Chemical Company	63
#13	Wayne P. Pruett	Eastman Kodak	62
#14	Scott Donald Barnicki	Eastman Chemical	58
#14	Gerald Charles Tustin	Eastman Chemical	58
#14	Scott Ellery George	Eastman Chemical	58
#17	Richard L. McConnell	Eastman Kodak	57
#18	Shriram Bagrodia	Clemson University	55
#18	Bobby M. Phillips	Clemson University	55
#20	Clarence A. Coates, Jr.	Eastman Kodak	53
#21	Ashfaq Shahanawaz Shaikh	Eastman Chemical	52
#22	Robert B. Barbee	Eastman Kodak	47
#23	Stephen N. Falling	Eastman Chemical	46
#23	Charles Edwan Sumner, Jr.	Eastman Chemical	46
#23	Daniel William Klosiewicz	Eastman Chemical	46
#26	Jeffrey J. Vanderbilt	Eastman Chemical	44
#26	Alan W. White	Eastman Chemical	44
#28	David R. Fagerburg	Eastman Kodak	43
#29	Jason Clay Pearson	Eastman Chemical	42
#29	Wesley Raymond Hale	Eastman Chemical	42
#31	Philip Edward Gibson	Eastman Chemical	40
#32	Wayne Scott Strasser	Eastman Chemical	39
#33	Gether Irick, Jr.	Eastman Kodak	38
#34	Jean Carroll Fleischer	Eastman Chemical	36
#34	Ke Feng	Ticona	36
#34	Michael Paul Ekart	Eastman Chemical	36
#34	Bobby J. Sublett	Eastman Kodak	36
#38	Charles Stuart Everett	Eastman Chemical	34
#38	Mary Therese Jernigan	Eastman Chemical	34
#38	Phillip Michael Cook	Eastman Chemical	34
#41	Jeffrey Scott Kanel	Eastman Chemical	32
#42	Brent Alan Tennant	Eastman Chemical	31
#43	Larry D. Johnson	Bayer Healthcare	30
#43	Ted Calvin Germroth	Akron Polymer Systems	30
#43	Zhufang Liu	Eastman Chemical	30
#46	Jianhui Zhou	AT&T	29
#47	Vineet Rajgarhia	Lallemand Hungary Liquidity Management	28
#48	Joseph J. Watkins	Eastman Kodak	27
#48	Richard H. S. Wang	Eastman Kodak	27
#48	Ronald Buford Sheppard	Eastman Chemical	27

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