Top Inventors in Durham, NC — 2018

Durham, NC ranks #103 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 1,066 patents from 568 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Durham, NC include X-Celeprint Limited, Intellectual Ventures, Precision Biosciences. That works out to 3.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 568 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Matthew Meitl	X-Celeprint Limited	24
2	David R. Smith	Intellectual Ventures	14
3	Derek Jantz	Precision Biosciences	11
#4	John Scott Crowe	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	10
#4	Grigori Zaitsev	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	10
#4	William J. Hoekstra	Viamet Pharmaceuticals	10
#4	Ruthie D. Lyle	IBM	10
#8	Anant Agarwal	Cree	9
#8	Daniel T. MacLeod	Precision Biosciences	9
#8	Eric Woods	IBM	9
#8	Barton F. Haynes	Duke University	9
#8	Victor Bartsevich	Precision Biosciences	9
#13	Mark E. Steinke	IBM	8
#13	Mark Charles Davis	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	8
#13	Robert C. Williams, Jr.	Nike	8
#16	Charles S. Lingafelt	IBM	7
#16	Jesse Gilsinger	Monsanto Technology	7
#16	Joseph A. Izatt	Duke University	7
#16	Fred Allison Bower, III	—	7
#16	Gennaro A. Cuomo	IBM	7
#16	Qiu Wang	Siemens Healthcare Limited	7
#22	Hoan Huu Nguyen	Qualcomm	6
#22	William G. Pagan	IBM	6
#22	Roarke Horstmeyer	Caltech	6
#22	Robert James Kapinos	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	6
#22	Michael D. Elder	IBM	6
#22	David John Steiner	Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions	6
#22	John H. Hebrank	Embrex	6
#22	Eli B. Nichols	Becton, Dickinson And	6
#22	Michael G. Pollack	Advanced Liquid Logic	6
#31	David Jones Brady	Duke University	5
#31	Bruce A. Sullenger	Duke University	5
#31	Christopher Sicvol	Depuy Spine	5
#31	Francis Xavier Tavares	G1 Therapeutics	5
#31	Jonathan W. Jackson	IBM	5
#31	John J. Trainor	Cree	5
#31	Miles R. Palmer	8 Rivers Capital	5
#31	Vamsee K. Pamula	Advanced Liquid Logic	5
#31	Becky Welsh Breitinger	Syngenta Participations Ag	5
#31	Lindsay Roberson	Bsh Home Appliances	5
#31	Miles A. de Forest	Emc	5
#42	Stephen M. Grenon	Tearscience	4
#42	Peter Scott Andrews	Cree	4
#42	Francesco C. Schembari	IBM	4
#42	Sam Quaile	Republic Wireless	4
#42	Tomas Sadilek	GE	4
#42	Guy S. Lipworth	Searete	4
#42	John W. Wilson	Axon Enterprise	4
#42	Romit Roy Choudhury	Zendrive	4
#42	Matthew Ian Tucker	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	4

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