Top Inventors in Durham, NC — 2017

Durham, NC ranks #94 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 1,144 patents from 549 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Durham, NC include Intellectual Ventures, Nike, IBM. That works out to 4.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 549 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	David R. Smith	Intellectual Ventures	30
2	Robert C. Williams, Jr.	Nike	26
3	Eric Woods	IBM	22
#4	Matthew Meitl	X-Celeprint Limited	17
#4	Ruthie D. Lyle	IBM	17
#6	Camillo Sassano	IBM	15
#7	Jonathan W. Jackson	IBM	13
#7	Charles S. Lingafelt	IBM	13
#7	Edward S. Suffern	IBM	13
#10	David T. Emerson	Cree	12
#11	Francesco C. Schembari	IBM	11
#12	John J. Trainor	Cree	10
#12	John Edmond	Cree	10
#12	Anant Agarwal	Cree	10
#12	Jesse Gilsinger	Monsanto Technology	10
#16	Lindsay Roberson	Bsh Home Appliances	9
#16	Mark Charles Davis	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	9
#18	Gennaro A. Cuomo	IBM	8
#19	Stephen M. Grenon	Tearscience	7
#19	Peter Scott Andrews	Cree	7
#19	John Scott Crowe	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	7
#19	Marc Richard Pamley	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	7
#19	Robert James Kapinos	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	7
#19	Barry J. Pellas	IBM	7
#19	Mark F. Oldham	Applied Biosystems	7
#26	William J. Hoekstra	Viamet Pharmaceuticals	6
#26	Tuan Vo-Dinh	Duke University	6
#26	William J. Brown	Bioptigen	6
#26	Grigori Zaitsev	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	6
#26	Brian C. Totten	—	6
#26	Jay Robert Dorfman	E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And	6
#26	Miles A. de Forest	Emc	6
#33	Philip John Jakes	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	5
#33	Maiken H. Mikkelsen	Intellectual Ventures	5
#33	John W. Wilson	Axon Enterprise	5
#33	Joshua Allen	IBM	5
#33	C. Steven Lingafelt	IBM	5
#33	David Gomez	X-Celeprint Limited	5
#33	Barton F. Haynes	Duke University	5
#33	Michael D. Whitley	IBM	5
#33	Angela Richards Jones	WARF	5
#33	Hua-Xin Liao	Duke University	5
#33	Kimberly S. Sampson	Athenix	5
#33	John R. Gilbert	Cytonome/St	5
#33	Vamsee K. Pamula	Advanced Liquid Logic	5
#46	Luke Coleman	Research Triangle Institute	4
#46	William L. Athas	Boston Scientific Scimed	4
#46	Emmanuel C. Opara	Wake Forest University Health Sciences	4
#46	Etienne Menard	University Of Illinois	4
#46	Qiu Wang	Siemens Healthcare Limited	4

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