Top Inventors in Salem, VA | Patent Leaderboard

Salem, VA ranks #1,779 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,865 patents from 518 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Salem, VA include Bally Gaming, GE, US Air Force. That works out to 73.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 518 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	James Morrow	Bally Gaming	58
2	Loren H. Walker	GE	48
3	Leslie Brandon Shaw	US Air Force	32
3	Dallas N. Barr	US Army	32
#5	Peter H. Field	Medeco Security Locks	30
#5	Daniel Anderson Newman	Yakattack	30
#7	Michael Drzewucki	IBM	24
#8	L. Brandon Shaw	US Navy	23
#8	William Ralph Bond	—	23
#8	Paul S. Bixel	GE	23
#11	Jeffrey Alan Melius	GE	22
#12	Raymond T. Jones	Eastman Kodak	19
#12	Robert Andrew McGill	US Air Force	19
#14	William Robert Pettigrew	GE	18
#14	Joseph E. Remias	University Of Kentucky	18
#16	Timothy A. Kelly	Salem Vent International	17
#16	Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez	GE	17
#16	Richard G. Hyatt, Jr.	Medeco Security Locks	17
#19	Michael Franke	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	15
#19	Thomas A. Winslow	M/A-Com	15
#21	Virgil L. Frantz	Roanoke College	13
#21	Justin Brandon Chong	GE	13
#21	James L. Stevens	Pacesetter	13
#21	Richard T. Brown	Atlantic Research Group	13
#25	Kristi Woods	Novozymes Bioag A/S	12
#25	William Eric Garris	Exelis	12
#25	Fred Henry Boettner	GE	12
#25	Igor Berroteran	GE	12
#25	Lawrence Lane	Timbre Technologies	12
#25	Jonathan Leder	Novozymes Biologicals Limited	12
#31	Douglas B. Meyer	Oracle	11
#31	Bryan K. Bullis	IBM	11
#31	James R. Watts	3M	11
#31	Alan Carroll Lovell	GE	11
#31	Adam Nelson	Novozymes A/S	11
#31	James A. Downing	Altec Industries	11
#37	Johnny Stephen Downor	GE	10
#37	Pranav Avasarala	Aver Technologies	10
#37	Shawn Semones	Novozymes Bioag A/S	10
#37	James R. Harness	Intel	10
#37	Todd David Greenleaf	GE	10
#37	Lois T. Davis	Sybron	10
#37	William F. Ginder	Graham-White Manufacturing	10
#44	Roy Anthony Carter	GE	9
#44	James Hoge Bowen	Itt Manufacturing Enterprises	9
#44	Harry Aldstadt	United States Postal Service	9
#44	Qiliang Li	George Mason University	9
#44	Daman S. Walia	Arctech	9
#44	Scott W. Voorhees	—	9
#44	William C. Hudson	Agilent Technologies	9

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