Top Inventors in Knoxville, TN | Patent Leaderboard

Knoxville, TN ranks #227 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 12,959 patents from 2,927 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Knoxville, TN include IBM, Sharper Image, Ut-Battelle. That works out to 67.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,927 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Brian E. Smith	IBM	199
2	Charles E. Taylor	Sharper Image	81
3	Sheng Dai	Ut-Battelle	80
#4	Thomas E. Nelson	Soltech Co.	68
#5	Cressie E. Holcombe, Jr.	Martin Marietta Energy Systems	66
#6	Christopher T. Rich	Woodstream	63
#7	Kenneth Ralph Piety	Rdi Technologies	59
#7	Rosa Young	Energy Conversion Devices	59
#7	Mohamed R. Mahfouz	Techmah Medical	59
#10	Michael C. Jordan	Itool Equipment Holding	58
#11	Harold Dail Kimrey, Jr.	915 Labs	57
#12	Chaitanya K. Narula	Ford	53
#13	Orlando Rios	Ut-Battelle	52
#13	Jian Sun	Carrier	52
#13	David B. Johnson	Intel	52
#13	Mariappan Parans Paranthaman	Ut-Battelle	52
#17	John A. Fee	Mci Communications	50
#17	Stephen F. Smith	Ut-Battelle	50
#19	David F. Ekern	Mastercraft Boat Company	49
#20	James W. Klett	Ut-Battelle	46
#21	Mark S. Andreaco	Siemens Medical Solutions Usa	45
#21	Michael D. Myers	Mastercraft Boat Company	45
#23	Pooran Chandra Joshi	Sharp Laboratories Of America	44
#24	Christopher E. Mainini	Radio Systems	43
#24	Vladimir Y. Panin	Siemens Medical Solutions Usa	43
#24	Xiaoli Liu	Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co.	43
#24	Anthony J. Hayzen	Computational Systems	43
#28	Donald M. Kroeger	Ut-Battelle	40
#28	Donald L. Black	Eastman Kodak	40
#30	Amit K. Naskar	Ut-Battelle	38
#30	James L. Corbeil	Siemens Medical Solutions Usa	38
#32	H. Craig Dees	Provectus Pharmatech	37
#32	Jianlin Li	Ut-Battelle	37
#32	Lonnie J. Love	Ut-Battelle	37
#35	Edward B. Ripley	Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Y-12	35
#35	Joshua Peters	Booz Allen Hamilton	35
#35	Kenneth F. Olson	Survivalink	35
#35	Ilia N. Ivanov	Ut-Battelle	35
#39	Roger A. Kisner	Ut-Battelle	33
#40	Michael L. Simpson	Ut-Battelle	32
#40	Michael Zemel	Nusirt Sciences	32
#40	David L. Wood, III	Ut-Battelle	32
#43	Stewart V. Bowers, III	Computational Systems	31
#43	Timothy C. Scott	Provectus Pharmatech	31
#45	Samuel C. Weaver	Proton Power	30
#45	Arthur Hall, III	—	30
#47	Tomonori Saito	Ut-Battelle	29
#47	John D. Holder	Memc Electronic Materials	29
#47	David J. Icove	University Of Tennessee	29
#47	Richard K. Fisher, Jr.	Voith Hydro	29

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