Top Inventors in Roanoke, VA | Patent Leaderboard

Roanoke, VA ranks #1,199 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,799 patents from 603 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Roanoke, VA include GE, Pixeloptics, Porter-Cable. That works out to 28.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 603 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Robert Gregory Wagoner	GE	150
2	Joshua N. Haddock	Pixeloptics	80
3	John C. Smith	Porter-Cable	68
#4	Allen Michael Ritter	GE	65
#5	John C. Nelson	3M	62
#6	Michael Hudson	Rgb Systems	53
#7	Ahsan Habib	Novozymes Bioag A/S	44
#8	Mark Steven Sanders	Dell Products	43
#8	Leland H. Lyon	Ingersoll-Rand	43
#10	Charles Houston Waddell	Global Plasma Solutions	41
#11	Charles Willey	Itt Manufacturing Enterprises	31
#12	Robert A. Sadler	—	29
#13	Stephen B. Bogese, II	Virginia Patent Development	28
#14	Venkatramani S. Iyer	Pixeloptics	27
#15	Mark Graham	Mitsui Chemicals	26
#16	William Robert Pearson	GE	25
#16	Nils I. Thomas	Itt Manufacturing Enterprises	25
#18	Mark Eugene Shepard	GE	24
#19	Charles E. Konrad	GE	23
#20	Serban Jora	AT&T	21
#20	Eddy Ying Yin Ho	GE	21
#20	Richard Clompus	Pogotec	21
#23	John H. Cutler	GE	20
#24	John Barnett Hammond	Digitaloptics	19
#24	Robert Allen Seymour	GE	19
#24	Inder J. Bahl	Itt	19
#27	Mokhtar S. Maklad	International Telephone And Telegraph	18
#28	Scott Fitzgerald	Edsal Manufacturing Company	17
#28	Victor Iannello	Synchrony	17
#30	Steven Wade Sutherland	GE	16
#30	Pablo C. Pureza	US Air Force	16
#32	Neil Aneja	Unknown	15
#32	William J. Baney	Delphi Technologies	15
#32	Amitava Gupta	Caltech	15
#35	Douglas E. Trent	Assa Abloy High Security Group	14
#35	Steven William Smith	GE	14
#35	Christopher Sortore	Synchrony	14
#35	Cyrus David Harbourt	GE	14
#35	John Mayhew	Target Brands	14
#40	Sean P. McGinnis	High Performance Optics	13
#40	Walter Dannhardt	Pogotec	13
#40	Mark W. Vinson	Admmicro Properties, L.L.C.	13
#40	Stuart A. Connell	Caterpillar	13
#40	Thomas D. Taylor	Scooterbug	13
#45	Todd H. Huffman	Westvaco	12
#45	John Mason	Celera	12
#45	Robert Hall	Mitsui Chemicals	12
#45	John Alexander Petzen, III	GE	12
#45	Earle N. Phillips	Itt	12
#45	Michael Frodyma	Novozymes Bioag A/S	12

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