Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wake Forest, NC ranks #644 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 196 patents from 98 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wake Forest, NC include Broadcom, IBM, NVIDIA. That works out to 4.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 98 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Thomas J. Quigley Broadcom 13
1 Andrew J. Ivory IBM 13
1 J. Mark Weber 13
#4 Patrick R. Brown NVIDIA 9
#5 Joseph Anthony Holung Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 6
#5 Stephanie L. Trunzo IBM 6
#7 Daniel Stephen Gardiner Protochips 4
#7 Yeshwant Nagaraj Kolla Qualcomm 4
#7 Randolph Cary Demuynck Sony 4
#7 Guillermo Coward-Kelly 4
#11 Thomas Philip Speier Qualcomm 3
#11 John M. Weber 3
#11 Christopher A. Maul IBM 3
#11 Mitchell J. Palmer United States Surgical 3
#11 John J. Shea Eaton 3
#11 Suzanne Marion Beaumont Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 3
#11 Charles Douglas Taylor Micell Technologies 3
#18 Pasi Taimela Flexgen Power Systems 2
#18 Douglas P. Taylor Tayco Developments 2
#18 Sarah C. McHatton Novozymes Biologicals Limited 2
#18 Joshua Neil Novak Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 2
#18 Douglas Edward Wilkinson Merial 2
#18 Stephen H. Hancock Flextronics Ap 2
#18 Mark Imbriaco 2
#18 Robert Brian Likovich, Jr. IBM 2
#18 Ralph Edward Barthel Preferred Technology 2
#18 Mike Thomas Impinj 2
#18 Gerard James Hayes 2
#18 John A. Gelardi 2
#18 Donald Gibbons Schneider Electric Usa 2
#18 Christine M. Stamm-Nettleship IBM 2
#18 John R. Holt British Nuclear Fuels Plc 2
#18 John William Haskins, JR. Netapp 2
#18 Robert T. Jacobs Zeneca Limited 2
#18 Ronald B. Baker IBM 2
#36 Samuel Lee Whitfield Itron 1
#36 Thomas Place Cree 1
#36 Kevin Wee Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited 1
#36 Daniel E. Moore IBM 1
#36 Jeffrey T. Layton IBM 1
#36 Anthony H. Grieco Cisco 1
#36 Erik S. Bryant IBM 1
#36 Ronald Philip Klinc Gilbarco 1
#36 Erik Maki Cree 1
#36 Bryan MacFarlane Microsoft 1
#36 Katherine Glasgow Sabic Innovative Plastics B.V. 1
#36 Larry R. Metzger Cisco 1
#36 Duane S. Miller IBM 1
#36 Harry Chmielewski Paragon Trade Brands 1
#36 Dharmendr Len Seebaluck Hamilton Sundstrand 1

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