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U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT)

U.S. Resident Inventors and Their Utility Patents
Breakout by State Regional Component

Count of 2000 - 2015 Inventors and Their Patents
As Distributed By Calendar Year of Patent Grant

- Explanation of Data -

Inventors Residing In

SOUTH CAROLINA

And a Rank Ordered Listing of the Inventor Residence
Locations by Regional Component (e.g., County)

( inventor residence corresponds to residence at the time of grant )
( an inventor having multiple patents is counted multiple times, once for each patent )
( A single patent with multiple inventors is counted multiple times, once for each inventor )
( counts may not sum exactly due to rounding - see Explanation of Data )

This table displays regional components (e.g., counties) of the profiled area and counts of resident inventors and their utility patents; counts are distributed by year of patent grant.
FIPS Code Mail Code State or Territory Regional Area Component 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Total
45045 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville County 194 307 364 328 332 326 412 313 263 395 434 667 975 944 1107 1219 8580
45083 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Spartanburg County 115 146 171 227 175 178 187 118 85 132 129 152 136 125 157 151 2384
45019 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston County 102 87 115 80 93 57 55 43 42 68 55 82 95 117 104 77 1271
45063 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Lexington County 78 84 50 65 67 39 59 51 53 78 73 107 103 116 114 137 1269
45077 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Pickens County 54 61 64 70 75 50 70 80 50 54 105 67 99 81 109 101 1190
45091 SC SOUTH CAROLINA York County 44 43 51 49 38 35 56 41 44 51 86 79 95 119 113 161 1101
45007 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Anderson County 49 65 57 56 43 42 56 45 42 36 51 66 74 121 103 110 1016
45079 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Richland County 51 48 37 55 55 38 58 30 44 51 49 77 87 129 106 106 1016
45041 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Florence County 77 55 48 54 49 58 63 44 32 26 33 29 44 73 81 34 800
45035 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Dorchester County 46 45 44 37 48 29 36 34 29 29 62 53 72 82 59 50 753
45003 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Aiken County 33 42 31 45 28 18 23 31 26 35 48 28 35 34 51 50 558
45015 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Berkeley County 35 34 38 26 45 22 18 17 22 27 35 38 44 50 55 38 542
45051 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Horry County 8 22 32 38 31 34 45 37 24 36 28 30 27 40 28 44 504
45073 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Oconee County 28 34 27 33 33 15 23 34 19 12 44 35 32 40 29 25 463
45013 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Beaufort County 26 19 18 13 23 17 22 20 17 32 29 27 25 25 25 26 364
45031 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Darlington County 20 23 22 16 22 10 29 18 6 13 21 8 21 10 9 19 267
45057 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Lancaster County 11 12 16 15 8 9 10 7 8 4 13 17 22 35 33 45 261
45047 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Greenwood County 8 2 13 11 13 10 19 8 23 17 10 27 18 16 22 16 233
45055 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Kershaw County 8 12 12 1 10 6 2 2 1 4 5 11 10 9 11 4 108
45075 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Orangeburg County 23 2 6 12 4 11 4 3 2 4 5 1 7 3 10 8 105
45085 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Sumter County 4 5 2 8 2 10 3 8 8 10 3 3 8 6 9 3 92
45059 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Laurens County 2 3 6 2 2 5 11 5 4 5 3 8 2 7 11 8 84
45043 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Georgetown County 1 7 4 5 4 2 5 4 4 1 5 8 9 7 9 7 82
45071 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Newberry County 5 4 7 2 1 0 3 0 2 4 6 0 7 4 6 5 56
45025 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Chesterfield County 7 3 0 0 4 0 3 2 2 0 3 3 3 6 2 1 39
45023 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Chester County 2 3 0 0 2 3 2 3 3 1 0 1 3 4 3 5 35
45037 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Edgefield County 2 3 3 0 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 6 2 1 3 1 33
45029 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Colleton County 3 3 1 4 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 0 0 4 4 30
45021 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Cherokee County 3 2 2 4 3 1 3 0 1 0 1 4 2 0 0 3 29
45087 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Union County 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 6 3 2 1 1 4 0 0 3 27
45027 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Clarendon County 0 2 2 0 2 1 3 0 7 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 21
45001 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Abbeville County 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 3 1 3 3 20
45065 SC SOUTH CAROLINA McCormick County 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 1 18
45009 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Bamberg County 0 3 0 2 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 3 1 0 0 17
45089 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Williamsburg County 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 3 1 1 15
45069 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Marlboro County 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 13
45049 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Hampton County 2 3 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 12
45033 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Dillon County 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 11
45039 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Fairfield County 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 11
45011 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Barnwell County 1 0 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 10
45081 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Saluda County 0 1 3 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
45017 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Calhoun County 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5
45053 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Jasper County 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 5
45061 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Lee County 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5
45067 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Marion County 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 5
45000 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Undetermined County 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
45005 SC SOUTH CAROLINA Allendale County 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
ALL ALL ALL U.S. STATES/REGIONS ALL AREA COMPONENTS 1049 1187 1252 1270 1228 1031 1294 1017 876 1135 1350 1644 2070 2216 2385 2467 23471


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