Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Concord, NC ranks #1,891 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 67 patents from 39 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Concord, NC include Sensor Electronic Technology, Bank of America, Sbm Solar. That works out to 0.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–39 of 39 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Saulius Smetona Sensor Electronic Technology 8
2 Scott Lee Harkey Bank of America 5
3 Osbert Cheung Sbm Solar 3
3 Michael Borkowski Ingersoll-Rand 3
3 Christopher Aaron Clark Google 3
3 John Daniel Davidson Bank of America 3
3 Nathan Dent Bank of America 3
#8 John K. Sutton National Association For Stock Car Auto Racing 2
#8 Donald E. Krueger National Association For Stock Car Auto Racing 2
#8 Gregory V. Andrews World Fibers 2
#8 Ricky C. SKINNER IBM 2
#8 Brandon Thomas National Association For Stock Car Auto Racing 2
#8 Jeremy Huddleston Flir Systems Trading Belgium Bv 2
#8 Michael D. Horton National Association For Stock Car Auto Racing 2
#15 Rodney Harruff Kmc Controls 1
#15 Alan G. Ennis Bank of America 1
#15 Glenn Singletary Indian Head Industries 1
#15 Christopher A. Popiela National Association For Stock Car Auto Racing 1
#15 David A. Fowlie Phibro Animal Health 1
#15 Nathan L. Fields Microban Products 1
#15 Nathaniel M. Fried University Of North Carolina At Charlotte 1
#15 Ibrahim A. El Hedok 3M 1
#15 John Morphey Electrolux Home Care Products 1
#15 Anup Vappala Bank of America 1
#15 Lester Ray Harrell Electric Power Research Institute 1
#15 Scott Reynolds Hand Held Products 1
#15 Dazhao Cheng Hewlett Packard Enterprise 1
#15 Sean Bracken Simmons Auria Solutions Uk I 1
#15 Phillip J. Dietzenbach 1
#15 Shengmin Sang North Carolina Agricultural And Technical State University 1
#15 Scott James Danesi Teachers Insurance And Annuity Association Of America 1
#15 Sylvain Dumet Thomson Licensing 1
#15 Albert Wayne Shinn 1
#15 Steve Lepard Indian Head Industries 1
#15 Michael S. Gorman Cellco Partnership 1
#15 Jay Phillips The Terramite 1
#15 David Patrick Erceg Mantissa 1
#15 Paul Wanish IBM 1
#15 Eric Bratton Crs Industries 1

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