South Carolina — Patent Inventors

Top Cities in South Carolina All Time

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Greenville, SC	8,750	1,770
#2	Simpsonville, SC	6,663	1,013
#3	Columbia, SC	5,138	1,151
#4	Greer, SC	4,403	717
#5	Charleston, SC	3,590	815
#6	Spartanburg, SC	2,854	569
#7	Anderson, SC	2,755	525
#8	Fort Mill, SC	1,839	349
#9	Florence, SC	1,437	362
#10	Easley, SC	1,425	310
#11	Clemson, SC	1,221	297
#12	Rock Hill, SC	1,203	269
#13	Summerville, SC	1,174	314
#14	Aiken, SC	1,164	359
#15	Taylors, SC	1,099	195
#16	Mount Pleasant, SC	1,011	240
#17	Lexington, SC	976	291
#18	Seneca, SC	843	178
#19	Fairfax, SC	766	229
#20	Piedmont, SC	766	117
#21	Mauldin, SC	673	140
#22	Tega Cay, SC	616	137
#23	Myrtle Beach, SC	607	203
#24	Moore, SC	598	114
#25	Greenwood, SC	594	178

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Peng Xu	Columbia	IBM	360
2	Remigijus Gaska	Columbia	Sensor Electronic Technology	253
3	Naoki Ito	Conway	Yazaki	204
#4	Shalaby W. Shalaby	Anderson	Poly-Med	197
#5	Foster B. Stulen	Johns Island	Johnson & Johnson	176
#6	Timothy Good	Town and Country	Metrologic Instruments	169
#7	Maxim S. Shatalov	Columbia	Sensor Electronic Technology	163
#8	Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam	Greenville	GE	162
#9	David Dawson	Charleston	The Urban Electric	157
#10	James E. Sealey, II	Belton	First Quality Tissue	144
#11	Robert C. Smith	Chapin	Covidien Lp	140
#12	Jonathan Charpia	Summerville	The Urban Electric	130
#13	Ronald M. Marsilio	Ridgeland	Invue Security Products	125
#14	Joeangel Casanova	North Charleston	The Urban Electric	120
#15	Jonathan Dwight Berry	Simpsonville	GE	118
#16	Malcolm MacCoss	Seabrook Island	Merck	117
#17	Benjamin Paul Lacy	Greer	GE	114
#18	Scott William Huffer	Hartsville	Sonoco Development	113
#18	Thomas Edward Johnson	Greer	GE	113
#20	Brandon Sloane	Town and Country	Bank of America	109
#21	Kenneth M. Brazell	Piedmont	—	100
#22	Michael Lu	Myers	Packy Poda	99
#23	Paul William Eschenbach	Roebuck	Milliken Research	95
#24	David M. Grigg	Rock Hill	Bank of America	91
#25	Christopher Roof	Charleston	The Urban Electric	88