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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wake Forest, NC ranks #660 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 204 patents from 111 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wake Forest, NC include IBM, Lenovo (Singapore) Pte., Eaton. That works out to 4.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 111 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 J. Mark Weber 10
2 Andrew J. Ivory IBM 7
3 Guillermo Coward-Kelly 6
#4 John M. Weber 5
#4 Joseph Anthony Holung Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 5
#4 John J. Shea Eaton 5
#4 Bob Marshall 5
#4 Jeffrey McKeown Tectran Mfg. 5
#9 Yeshwant Nagaraj Kolla Qualcomm 4
#9 Stephen H. Hancock Flextronics Ap 4
#9 John Wilson Rambus 4
#9 Suzanne Marion Beaumont Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 4
#13 Jones M. Hyman Biomerieux 3
#13 Charles Douglas Taylor Micell Technologies 3
#13 Jarred DeVille Illumina 3
#13 Guillermo Regulez Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 3
#13 Patrick R. Brown NVIDIA 3
#13 John P. Hunt IBM 3
#19 Dharmendr Len Seebaluck Hamilton Sundstrand 2
#19 C. Douglas Taylor Battelle Memorial Institute 2
#19 Dyson Hickingbotham Alcon 2
#19 Doug Taylor Micell Technologies 2
#19 Nisha Amol Keskar Nomacorc 2
#19 Don Aikin Kindheart 2
#19 Randy Demuynck Cree 2
#19 Thomas J. Quigley Broadcom 2
#19 Gerard James Hayes 2
#19 Stephanie L. Trunzo IBM 2
#19 Remi A. Lemarchand Microsoft 2
#19 Wesley J. Gyure IBM 2
#19 Randall Deinhammer Novozymes A/S 2
#19 Douglas P. Taylor Tayco Developments 2
#19 D. Gregory Yow 2
#19 Anthony Edward Stuart Allscripts Software 2
#19 Bruce SPESARD Bayer Cropscience 2
#19 David N. Nguyen IBM 2
#19 Andrew Lees Centre Firearms Co. 2
#19 Jeffrey T. Layton IBM 2
#19 Anthony H. Grieco Cisco 2
#19 Damon James Bost Nomacorc 2
#19 Alexander Tulenko Allscripts Software 2
#19 Heather L. Prichard Humacyte 2
#19 Terry Simpson Kidde Technologies 2
#19 Thomas Philip Speier Qualcomm 2
#19 Juliana Blum Humacyte 2
#19 Daniel Namishia Cree 2
#19 Christopher L. Houseknecht IBM 2
#48 Michael Arnett Smith E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 1
#48 Dan Namishia Cree 1
#48 Edwin F. Genao 1

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