Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Starkville, MS ranks #3,024 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,003 patents from 253 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Starkville, MS include Honeywell, Cypress Semiconductor, Semisouth Laboratories. That works out to 41.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 253 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Dennis W. Smith Honeywell 63
2 Jeffery Scott Hunt Cypress Semiconductor 41
3 Andrew L. Hawkins Cypress Semiconductor 34
#4 Pidugu L. Narayana Cypress Semiconductor 29
#5 Roland T. Knaack Cypress Semiconductor 25
#6 George M. Ansel Cypress Semiconductor 22
#6 Joseph Neil Merrett Semisouth Laboratories 22
#8 Satish C. Saripella Cypress Semiconductor 19
#9 Allen White Lattice Semiconductor 18
#10 Susan K. Brown-Skrobot Mcneil-Ppc 17
#11 Ajay Srikrishna Cypress Semiconductor 13
#11 Sanjay Sancheti Cypress Semiconductor 13
#13 Martin F. Jue Mfj Enterprises 12
#14 Andrew LeClair Fedex Corporate Services 11
#14 Shiva P. Gowni Cypress Semiconductor 11
#14 Muthukumar Nagarajan Cypress Semiconductor 11
#14 Sanjay Sunder Cisco 11
#18 Joseph C. Dickens USDA 10
#18 Matthew Bilson Fedex Corporate Services 10
#18 Daniel Eric Cress Cypress Semiconductor 10
#18 Matthew Doude Fedex Corporate Services 10
#22 Philip H. Steele Mississippi State University 9
#22 Suyoung Seo Mississippi State University Research And Technology 9
#24 Tor P. Schultz Mississippi State University 8
#24 Mark L. Lawrence Mississippi State University 8
#24 Jeffrey Casady Mississippi State University Research And Technology 8
#24 Qiangu Yan Mississippi State University Research And Technology 8
#24 Gregory Burgreen University Of Pittsburgh 8
#24 Nancy A. Reichert Mississippi State University 8
#24 Terry Amburgey Mississippi State University 8
#24 Jagdish P. Singh Mississippi State University 8
#24 George R. Lightsey Controlled Environmental Systems 8
#24 Greggory Alan Morris Fedex Corporate Services 8
#34 Richard Patton Zf Passive Safety Systems, Us 7
#34 Dan Zupcau Cypress Semiconductor 7
#34 James A. Hawkins Unknown 7
#34 Darrel D. Nicholas Mississippi State University 7
#34 Jeffery Mark Marshall Cypress Semiconductor 7
#34 Joe A. Wright Omnova Solutions 7
#34 James R. Heitz Sterling Drug 7
#34 H. Wayne Philley Mississippi State University 7
#34 Gerald H. McKibben Cotton Incorporated 7
#34 Gary Butler Bbn Technologies 7
#44 Muthu Nagarajan Google 6
#44 Shen Ji New Jersey Institute Of Technology 6
#44 James C. Kelly 6
#44 Attila Karsi Mississippi State University 6
#44 Derrick J. Savage Cypress Semiconductor 6
#44 Jeffrey V. Krans Mississippi State University 6
#50 Ali Khishdoost Borazjani Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited 5

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