Arkansas — Patent Inventors | Patent Leaderboard

Arkansas ranks #41 among US states for total patents filed all time, with 20,556 patents from 5,804 inventors across 299 cities. On a per-capita basis that is 6.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a standard benchmark for comparing state-level R&D intensity.

Top Cities in Arkansas All Time

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Little Rock, AR	2,621	742
#2	Fayetteville, AR	2,452	605
#3	Bentonville, AR	2,110	575
#4	Rogers, AR	1,352	334
#5	Conway, AR	875	175
#6	Springdale, AR	741	201
#7	Barling, AR	542	179
#8	Hot Springs, AR	483	137
#9	Jonesboro, AR	481	190
#10	Centerton, AR	455	74
#11	Mayflower, AR	342	58
#12	Maddux Spring, AR	331	38
#13	North Little Rock, AR	289	92
#14	Arkadelphia, AR	281	55
#15	Camden, AR	272	89
#16	Berryville, AR	271	90
#17	Pleasant Valley, AR	251	19
#18	Russellville, AR	248	82
#19	Paragould, AR	245	63
#20	Batesville, AR	233	61
#21	Helmissenstraat, AR	198	65
#22	Mountain Home, AR	157	67
#23	Lowell, AR	156	40
#24	Pocahontas, AR	139	60
#25	Cave Springs, AR	137	26

Top Inventors in Arkansas All Time

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Nicholaus A. Jones	Fayetteville	Walmart Apollo	173
2	Matthew A. Jones	Bentonville	Walmart Apollo	157
3	Robert James Taylor	Rogers	Walmart Apollo	144
#4	Todd D. Mattingly	Bentonville	Walmart Apollo	120
#5	Bruce W. Wilkinson	Rogers	Walmart Apollo	116
#6	Peter A. Crooks	Little Rock	University Of Kentucky	96
#7	Steven W. Rogers	Conway	Snap-On Incorporated	93
#7	Michael D. Atchley	Eureka Springs	Walmart Apollo	93
#9	Richard S. Smith	Hot Springs	Smith Abrasives	92
#10	Timothy J. O'Brien	Little Rock	University Of Arkansas	83
#11	John J. O'Brien	Pleasant Valley	Walmart Apollo	81
#12	J. Dewayne Allen	Paragould	Allen Engineering	75
#13	Aaron J. Vasgaard	Fayetteville	Walmart Apollo	71
#14	John Reuben Clark	Fayetteville	University Of Arkansas	68
#15	Zili Sun	Arkadelphia	Scroll Technologies	67
#16	Yurgis Mauro Bacallao	Centerton	Walmart Apollo	65
#16	Robert C. Taylor	Rogers	Walmart Apollo	65
#18	Louis Chalfant	Hot Springs	Smith'S Consumer Products	62
#19	John P. Thompson	Bentonville	Walmart Apollo	59
#20	Glen David Shaw	Conway	Perfectvision Manufacturing	55
#20	Clay Brady Cole	Bay	Syngenta Participations Ag	55
#22	Robert A. Hill	Dover	Nyse Holdings	54
#23	Brice McPherson	Fayetteville	Wolfspeed	52
#23	Floyd Hancock	Stuttgart	Monsanto Technology	52
#25	David Martin Nelms	Rogers	Walmart Apollo	51

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