Top Inventors in York, SC | Patent Leaderboard

York, SC ranks #7,333 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 314 patents from 70 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in York, SC include Hill-Rom Services, IBM, GE. That works out to 36.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 70 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Christian H. Reinke	Hill-Rom Services	49
2	Philip E. Parker	IBM	28
3	Nicholas Francis Martin	GE	27
#4	William Kirk	Sunkist Growers	24
#5	Mark Gunter	Britax Child Safety	12
#5	Scott Alan Reed	Britax Child Safety	12
#7	Darin Cate	Performance Friction	11
#8	Larry C. Cowan	Leesona	10
#9	Richard O. Gregory, II	3D Systems	9
#10	David S. Segletes	Siemens Energy	8
#11	Virginia O'Neil	Elkem Silicones Usa	7
#11	Bryan Thomas	Cabot	7
#11	Joshua VanHeusen	Wilder Tactical	7
#14	Ronald A. Proctor	Celgard	6
#14	Tom Benfield	Dental Equipment	6
#16	Thomas Dwayne Ogle	Telling Industries	5
#17	James Anthony Crane	—	4
#17	Jason S. Wells	Kyocera Sgs Precision Tools	4
#17	Louis Rubino, Jr.	Ink Projects	4
#17	Charles D. Brewer	C & M Machines	4
#21	James V. O'Boyle	Graphic Controls	3
#21	Jason A. Alizzi	Bank of America	3
#21	Blanche H. Black	Sequa Chemicals	3
#21	Barry Mahal	Britax Child Safety	3
#21	David B. Dupes	Roberts Plypro	3
#21	Nancy A. Claytor	—	3
#27	Darrell F. Stanfield	Bank of America	2
#27	Thomas Mark Benfield	Kavo Dental Technologies	2
#27	Robert John Hensing	Microsoft	2
#27	Bill Bittle	Building Materials Investment	2
#27	Melanie C. Miller	Duke Energy	2
#27	Bradley Keith Powell	Cryovac	2
#27	William Kendall Davis	Harley-Davidson Motor Company	2
#27	Joseph Bradley Dalton	Performance Friction	2
#35	Gary A. Cowley	—	1
#35	Brian List	Atotech Deutschland	1
#35	Curtis E. Bass	Siemens Power Generation	1
#35	Andrew Waddell	Siemens Energy Global	1
#35	Jerry Ivey	Duke Energy	1
#35	Robert D. Wilform, Jr.	—	1
#35	George L. Bailey, II	Industrial Test Systems	1
#35	William G. Stevens	Siemens Energy	1
#35	George B. Steelmon	—	1
#35	Joseph P. Latchaw	John Deere	1
#35	Gregory L. Klein	Textron	1
#35	Denver B. Smith	—	1
#35	William Eleazer	Honeywell	1
#35	Tom Benfeld	Kavo Dental Technologies	1
#35	Steven E. Rival	Union Carbide	1
#35	Rodney Daniel Taylor, II	Clemson University	1

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