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Prefer PDFs? A printer-friendly PDF of this list is available. Download PDF file Prefer Excel? A complete spreadsheet of this list is available. Download Excel file Inventors Ranked by Number of Patents Issued1 Rank '16 Inventor Patents issued / Issue dates Top patent assignee2 Most cited patent 1 Kit Rae 81 / 1995-2011 United Cutlery Inc. Knife with side guards 2 Cressie E. Holcombe Jr. 713 / 1976-2007 Equity Enterprises Shoe construction 3 Amit Goyal 70 / 1998-2015 UT-Battelle Structures having enhanced biaxial texture and method of fabricating same 4 David Cawlfield 62 / 1985-2000 Oiles Corp. Model predictive control apparatus and method 5 John S. Hsu 53 / 1991-2014 UT-Battelle Method of manufacturing squirrel cage rotors 6 Frederick M. Shofner 49 / 1977-2010 Zellweger Uster Continuous two dimensional monitoring of thin webs of textile materials 6 Donald K. Belcher 49 / 1977-2007 Harris Corp. Radio location system for precisely tracking objects by RF transceiver tags which randomly and repetitively emit wideband identification signals 8 Robert J. Lauf 47 / 1983-2014 UT-Battelle Temperature measuring device 8 Peter W. Barile 47 / 1977-2016 Shelby Williams Industries Detachable anchoring device for a seat assembly 10 Thomas S. Snyder 42 / 1985-2006 Westinghouse Electric Co. Decontamination using electrolysis 11 Donald M. Kroeger 41 / 1986-2009 UT-Battelle Structures having enhanced biaxial texture and method of fabricating same 12 Thomas G. Thundat 40 / 1995-2013 UT-Battelle Microcantilever sensor 12 Chaitanya Narula 40 / 1990-2016 Ford Global Technologies Catalytic differential calorimetric gas sensor 14 John J. Carberry 36 / 1992-2016 Neptec Optical Solutions Orthodontic bracket and associated fabricating method 15 Michael L. Simpson 35 / 1989-2015 UT-Battelle In vivo biosensor apparatus and method of use 16 Kenneth F. Olson 34 / 1996-2013 SurVivaLink Corp. Automated external defibrillator operator interface 16 James W. Klett 34 / 1994-2016 UT-Battelle Process for making carbon foam 16 H. Craig Dees 34 / 1986-2015 Provectus Pharmatech; Photogen Method for improved selectivity in photoactivation and detection of molecular diagnostic agents 19 Sheng Dai 33 / 1998-2016 UT-Battelle Imprint-coating synthesis of selective functionalized ordered mesoporous sorbents for separation and sensors 1 Knoxville-area inventors with patents assigned from 1976 to August 24, 2016. Some patents involve multiple inventors. This list does not reflect all the inventors who are responsible for the primary patents; 2 Represents organization for which this particular inventor filed the majority of his/her patents; 3 Includes some foreign patents Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. NA=not available or not applicable. If you notice an error or omission, please contact Angela Akers at 865-342-6424 or lists@knoxvillebiz.com.