Top Inventors in Smithfield, VA | Patent Leaderboard

Smithfield, VA ranks #8,611 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 248 patents from 42 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Smithfield, VA include Face International Corporaton, NASA, Advanced Testing Technologies. That works out to 29.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–42 of 42 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Bradbury R Face	Face International Corporaton	63
2	Joseph G. Smith, Jr.	NASA	48
3	Bryant D. Taylor	NASA	22
#4	David Howell	Advanced Testing Technologies	14
#5	Jennifer Michaeli	Ockerman Automation Consulting	10
#6	Matthew D. Wright	Basf Se	9
#6	Ahmad L. D. Glover	—	9
#8	Tommy Ray Maddox, II	Eastman Chemical	7
#9	Stanley S. Smeltzer, III	NASA	5
#9	William H. Moorhead	Advanced Rail Energy Storage	5
#9	Thomas Ivy	F.R. Drake	5
#9	Thomas W. Jones	L-3 Communications	5
#13	David R. Sawyer	Newport News Shipbuilding And Dry Dock	4
#13	Joshua Tawes	—	4
#15	Stuart Greenhalgh	Ciba Specialty Chemicals Water Treatments	3
#15	BENJAMIN COPELAND, JR.	The United States Of America As Represented By The United States National Aeronautics And Space Administration	3
#15	Joseph Cagle	—	3
#15	Anthony Stile	—	3
#19	Charles T. Kirk	—	2
#19	Mitchell Latimer	Afton Chemical	2
#21	Henry L. Thacker	—	1
#21	H. Dennis Caldwell	—	1
#21	William J. Drummond	—	1
#21	Teresa Mayo	—	1
#21	James E. Phelps	—	1
#21	Charles O. Dairo	Smithfield Foods	1
#21	Dennis Brian Dezern	—	1
#21	David A. Hare	—	1
#21	William C. Bullock	Newport News Shipbuilding And Dry Dock	1
#21	Monty Ray Lehmann	Southeastern Universities Research Assn.	1
#21	Kenneth A. Stone	Newport News Shipbuilding And Dry Dock	1
#21	Vincent S. Livingston	—	1
#21	Walter C. Babel, III	NASA	1
#21	Joan Evelyn Conover	Science Applications International	1
#21	Spencer David Flora	General Motors	1
#21	Angela B. Rabie	—	1
#21	Gia T. Moton	—	1
#21	James M. Moton	—	1
#21	Robert T. Scarborough	—	1
#21	Shelia H. Moton	—	1
#21	Herbert D. Jones	—	1
#21	John C. Reinke, Jr.	Newport News Shipbuilding And Dry Dock	1

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