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Durham, NC 2016

1,153 patents  ·  532 inventors  ·  4.1/1k pop.

Ranked #86 of 41,021 cities Top 1%

Durham, NC ranks #86 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 1,153 patents from 532 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Durham, NC include IBM, Bsh Home Appliances, Cree. That works out to 4.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 532 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ruthie D. Lyle IBM 24
2 Edward S. Suffern IBM 23
2 Eric Woods IBM 23
#4 Lindsay Roberson Bsh Home Appliances 21
#5 Anant Agarwal Cree 18
#6 Miles A. de Forest Emc 14
#7 Jesse Gilsinger Monsanto Technology 13
#7 Matthew Meitl X-Celeprint Limited 13
#7 Scott Curtis Waldeck Technology 13
#10 Mark Charles Davis Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 12
#10 David R. Smith Intellectual Ventures 12
#10 John Edmond Cree 12
#10 Peter Scott Andrews Cree 12
#10 Charles S. Lingafelt IBM 12
#10 Robert C. Williams, Jr. Nike 12
#16 Brian C. Totten — 11
#16 Michael G. Pollack Advanced Liquid Logic 11
#18 William G. Pagan IBM 10
#19 Vamsee K. Pamula Advanced Liquid Logic 9
#19 David Jones Brady Duke University 9
#21 Daniel Marks Duke University 8
#21 Etienne Menard University Of Illinois 8
#21 Jamaica L. Barnette — 8
#21 Francesco C. Schembari IBM 8
#25 Gennaro A. Cuomo IBM 7
#25 John W. Wilson Axon Enterprise 7
#27 Joseph A. Izatt Duke University 6
#27 John David Swansey Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 6
#27 Jorge Manuel Gomes da Silva Sas Institute 6
#27 Jay Robert Dorfman E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 6
#27 Mark F. Oldham Applied Biosystems 6
#27 Patrick Hall Sas Institute 6
#27 Francis Xavier Tavares G1 Therapeutics 6
#27 Aldo Mario Caballero Hand Held Products 6
#27 Camillo Sassano IBM 6
#36 Eli B. Nichols Becton, Dickinson And 5
#36 James Stephen Rutledge Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 5
#36 Brian M. Rogers IBM 5
#36 Huazhang Huang Marrone Bio Innovations 5
#36 Philip John Jakes Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 5
#36 David Gomez X-Celeprint Limited 5
#36 Michael D. Elder IBM 5
#36 Kimberly S. Sampson Athenix 5
#36 Qiu Wang Siemens Healthcare Limited 5
#36 David Kneeburg X-Celeprint Limited 5
#36 Stephen C. Hess Winston Furniture Company Of Alabama 5
#36 William L. Athas Boston Scientific Scimed 5
#36 Venkata Gopal Reddy Chada Duke University 5
#36 Frank Ivy Carroll Research Triangle Institute 5
#50 William Bruce Nicol, II IBM 4

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