Top Inventors in Hickory, NC — 2016

Hickory, NC ranks #638 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 198 patents from 77 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Hickory, NC include Corning Cable Systems, Bioptigen, Corning Optical Communications. That works out to 4.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 77 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	James Phillip Luther	Corning Cable Systems	28
2	Dennis Michael Knecht	Corning Cable Systems	20
3	Eric L. Buckland	Bioptigen	10
#4	William Carl Hurley	Corning Cable Systems	7
#4	David Alan Seddon	Corning Optical Communications	7
#6	James Arthur Register, III	Corning Cable Systems	6
#7	Warren Welborn McAlpine	Corning Optical Communications	5
#7	David H. Smith	Corning Cable Systems	5
#9	Terry Lee Cooke	Corning Cable Systems	4
#9	Robert Bruce Elkins, II	Corning Cable Systems	4
#9	Andrey Kobyakov	Corning Optical Communications	4
#9	Jason Elliott Greene	Corning Optical Communications	4
#9	Michael F. Zona	Xerox	4
#9	Darrell R. Childers	Us Conec	4
#15	Christopher M. Quinn	RTX (Raytheon)	3
#15	Andrew S. Dodd	Corning Optical Communications	3
#15	Christopher Shawn Houser	Corning Cable Systems	3
#15	Jeffrey Dean Danley	Corning Optical Communications	3
#19	William B. Limer	Hickory Springs Manufacturing	2
#19	Joseph P. Howard	Us Conec	2
#19	Enrico Mortarino	Evolved By Nature	2
#19	John C. Chamberlain	Commscope Technologies	2
#19	Joseph Todd Cody	Corning Cable Systems	2
#19	Michael E. Hughes	Us Conec	2
#19	Ray S. Barnes	Corning Cable Systems	2
#19	Trent M. Hayes	Commscope, Inc. Of North Carolina	2
#19	Kameshwaran Narasimhan	Senvion Gmbh	2
#19	Robert Elvin Barnette, JR.	Corning Optical Communications	2
#19	Wayne C. Hopkinson	Commscope, Inc. Of North Carolina	2
#19	Kevin M. Tucker	Illinois Tool Works	2
#19	Igor V. Khudyakov	Alcatel	2
#19	Kyle T. Roberts	—	2
#19	Mark Alan Bradley	Corning Optical Communications	2
#34	Kevin B. Sparks	Corning Incorporated	1
#34	Jillcha F. Wakjira	Us Conec	1
#34	David A. Wiebelhaus	Commscope, Inc. Of North Carolina	1
#34	Kimberly H. Whitley	—	1
#34	Eric Raymond Logan	Corning Cable Systems	1
#34	Alan N. Moe	Commscope, Inc. Of North Carolina	1
#34	Richard S. Wagman	Corning Cable Systems	1
#34	Joseph Shawn Huffman	Hickory Springs Manufacturing	1
#34	Joel Laine Parker	Corning Optical Communications	1
#34	Danny G. Maxwell	Hickory Springs Manufacturing	1
#34	Pete Elafros	Shurtape Technologies	1
#34	John D. Coleman	Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation	1
#34	Jimmy Pruitt	Highland Industries	1
#34	Jonathan W. Godfrey	Hickory Springs Manufacturing	1
#34	David J. Darab	—	1
#34	Patrice Bertrand	Intel	1
#34	Thomas Theuerkorn	Corning Cable Systems	1

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