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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Clemmons, NC ranks #2,120 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 60 patents from 29 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Clemmons, NC include Hayward Industries, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Ttn Holdings. That works out to 2.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–29 of 29 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Paul John Pepe 11
2 Jon Terence Stone Hayward Industries 6
3 Billy Tyrone Conner R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 3
3 Pankaj Patel R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 3
3 Darrell Eugene Holton, Jr. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 3
3 Joshua Lee Hoots Hayward Industries 3
3 Barry Bryant Ttn Holdings 3
#8 Thomas M. MacLeod Analog Devices 2
#8 Kenneth C. Kennedy, II Cook Medical Technologies 2
#8 Michael Andrew Zawadzki Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#8 Tom Kodat 2
#8 Yunde Xiao Targacept 2
#8 William D. Wagner Wake Forest University Health Sciences 2
#14 Gregory Alan Mills Corning Research & Development 1
#14 Siqun Lilly Zheng Wake Forest University Health Sciences 1
#14 Victor Lee Hardy R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 1
#14 Tommy Lynn Sawyer 1
#14 E. Matthew Reddick Niconovum Usa 1
#14 Thomas A. Lockwood Rock-Tenn Shared Services 1
#14 Jack Gray Flinchum, Jr. Rai Strategic Holdings 1
#14 Omar Enrique Osuna Hayward Industries 1
#14 J. Koudy Williams Amerimas Home Products 1
#14 Shaozhou Ken Tian Wake Forest University Health Sciences 1
#14 Paul A. Scarpinato Ingersoll-Rand 1
#14 John D. Jackson North Carolina State University 1
#14 Chandra Kumar Banerjee R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 1
#14 Michael Andrew Liberti Rai Strategic Holdings 1
#14 Rodney Hardy Memjet Technology Limited 1
#14 Jerry Wayne Pipes R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 1

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