Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Roswell, GA ranks #469 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,920 patents from 1,104 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Roswell, GA include AT&T, IBM, Kimberly-Clark Worldwide. That works out to 74.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,104 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Sheldon Kent Meredith AT&T 330
2 Matthew B. Trevathan IBM 271
3 Mark J. Enzmann AT&T 133
#4 Ronald Sinclair Nohr Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 107
#5 Mark Rule Eastman Kodak 98
#6 Mario Kosseifi AT&T 93
#7 John Alson Hicks, III AT&T 90
#8 Donald J. McMichael Avent 89
#9 Frank M. Tyneski Research In Motion Limited 86
#10 Jonathan Reeves AT&T 78
#11 Ali Yahiaoui Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 70
#12 Steven Wright AT&T 63
#13 Samuel Rapowitz Capital One Services 62
#14 Hugh C. Gardner Union Carbide 51
#15 Grant E. DuBois 50
#15 Robert King AT&T 50
#17 Joel Tetreault Calphalon 49
#18 Brent Vance Zucker Ncr 48
#19 Jason Begin Newell Operating 47
#20 Shrinivas Kudekar Qualcomm 46
#21 Nathan C. Griffith Avent 45
#21 Kavita Chavda IBM 45
#21 Lee Kirby Jameson Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 45
#24 Nagesh Kadaba UPS 44
#25 Dean F. Jerding Scientific-Atlanta 43
#26 Steven G. Smith AT&T 42
#27 William S. Spamer The Mead 38
#27 Brian D. Furlong Rubbermaid Incorporated 38
#29 John A. Rotella Avent 37
#30 Susan Elaine Shawver Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 34
#31 Mark Anderson American Colloid 32
#32 Jark C. Lau Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 31
#32 William F. Behm Scientific Games International 31
#34 James A. Jordan Cisco 30
#34 Iftekhar Alam AT&T 30
#36 Donald E. Waldroup Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 29
#36 Alice Susan Gordon Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 29
#36 Timothy William Barnett Bluefin Payment Systems 29
#36 Ian A. White AT&T 29
#40 Zachary Meredith AT&T 28
#40 Douglas David Gravino Cox Communications 28
#42 Daniel Hendrickson Ofs Fitel 27
#42 Chris Young Confluence Commons 27
#44 Joseph G. Wilson Oath (Americas) 26
#44 Mark S. Lewis Ebay 26
#44 Scott C. Swanson Sangamo Weston 26
#44 Nishant Jain Citrix Systems 26
#48 David Dunmire AT&T 25
#49 Douglas A. Duet AT&T 24
#49 Michael Cain Finley Ncr 24

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