Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mount Pleasant, SC ranks #2,984 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,021 patents from 240 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mount Pleasant, SC include The Urban Electric, Acucela, Hill-Rom Services. That works out to 11.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 240 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Janis Golubeckis The Urban Electric 67
2 Courteney Salsbury The Urban Electric 50
3 Philip M. BUSCEMI Acucela 37
#4 William L. Jacques, II Hill-Rom Services 34
#5 Xiaorong Cai Troy Group 31
#6 Mark Evald Semler Musc Foundation For Research Development 30
#7 Michael Maurer Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg 26
#8 Bruce Frankel Musc Foundation For Research Development 23
#8 Masakazu Tsuchiya Wako Pure Chemical Industries 23
#8 H. Darrel Darby Darco International 23
#11 John James Stone Kong 20
#12 Zhongde Wang Pixelworks 19
#12 James H. Price Hill-Rom Services 19
#14 Carlton D. Donald Phigenix 17
#15 Nicole Blohm Ricoh Company 14
#16 Mark S. Kindy University Of Kentucky 12
#17 Brett Neumann Georgia-Pacific Chemicals 11
#17 Richard L. Bowman Stratosaudio 11
#19 Jackie L. Winn Lincoln Global 10
#19 Mary Butler Hill-Rom Services 10
#19 Carlton G. Force 10
#19 Ian Roth Google 10
#23 Tom Girardeau 9
#23 Leon Griffin 9
#25 Marcelo Guimaraes Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha 8
#25 Ed Clark Quoizel 8
#27 Nancy Demore University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 7
#27 Robert Steven Graybill The Boeing 7
#27 Marc Rudloff Plante Somos 7
#27 Edward R. Buiel Axion Power International 7
#27 Joseph D. Doyle The Boeing 7
#27 Paul Price Thermo Fisher 7
#33 Billy-Paul M. Holbrook Ingevity South Carolina 6
#33 Lauren McNeill Clinical Biotechnology Research Institute At Rsfh 6
#33 Brian T. Peters The Boeing 6
#33 Stephen Kalhorn Musc Foundation For Research Development 6
#33 Cheryl Sedota Samsung 6
#33 Luca Nicoli Charles River Laboratories 6
#33 Jason Tremblay Charles River Laboratories 6
#33 Ryan M. Kroll K2M 6
#33 Rebecca L. DeLegge Cook Medical Technologies 6
#33 Tobey Andrew Wagner, Sr. Sod Solutions 6
#43 Henry Kuhnen Stryker 5
#43 George Stephen Cowart The Boeing 5
#43 Marta Leon Garcia Ingevity South Carolina 5
#43 Edward Heath The Boeing 5
#43 Derek Alan Faust Apple 5
#43 William E. Craver, III Magellan Group 5
#43 Michael Jenks 5
#43 Granville R. Fairchild Aol 5

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