Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

High Point, NC ranks #2,321 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 51 patents from 32 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in High Point, NC include Banner Life Sciences, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Liberty Hardware Mfg.. That works out to 0.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–32 of 32 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Aqeel A. Fatmi Banner Life Sciences 7
2 Timothy Frederick Thomas R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 6
3 James Allen Austin, III Liberty Hardware Mfg. 5
#4 Donna Dalton Merz Pharmaceuticals 3
#5 Ronald L. Sock L.&J.G. Stickley 2
#5 Kenneth E. Hogue Devicor Medical Products 2
#7 Sean Brown Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 1
#7 Margaret M. Reynolds 1
#7 Jinhua Zhong Rf Micro Devices 1
#7 Robert C. Mancari Camco Manufacturing 1
#7 Rick L. Hartley 1
#7 D. Stephen Hoffman Ultra-Mek 1
#7 Dharma Rao Polisetti Vtv Therapeutics 1
#7 Thomas R. Marsh Tenn-Tex Plastics 1
#7 Kukjin Han Hardware Resources 1
#7 Shawn Christopher Stanton Thomasville Furniture Industries 1
#7 Vernon C. Martell, Jr. 1
#7 Joshua Glessner The Clorox 1
#7 Keith Wayne Hoover 1
#7 Daniel F. Brady 1
#7 Patrick T. Heery Fiber Dynamics 1
#7 Gerald DeJohn 1
#7 Alan Anthony Alvarez Ge-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas 1
#7 William Travis Hedrick 1
#7 Briana Lee Fiser University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 1
#7 Mark J. Warburton Piper Medical 1
#7 James Michael Puckett 1
#7 Christopher E. Scott Gilbarco 1
#7 Steven W. Tyree Sealy Technology 1
#7 Aaron Shaw Unilin Bv 1
#7 James M. Bohannon Valspar Sourcing 1
#7 Paul David Weipert Ethox Chemicals 1

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