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Wake Forest, NC 2018

162 patents  ·  99 inventors  ·  3.4/1k pop.

Ranked #814 of 41,834 cities Top 2%

Wake Forest, NC ranks #814 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 162 patents from 99 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wake Forest, NC include Lenovo (Singapore) Pte., Qualcomm, Protochips. That works out to 3.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 99 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joshua Neil Novak Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 9
2 Yeshwant Nagaraj Kolla Qualcomm 6
2 Suzanne Marion Beaumont Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 6
#4 Guillermo Coward-Kelly — 5
#4 John M. Weber — 5
#4 Daniel Stephen Gardiner Protochips 5
#7 Patrick R. Brown NVIDIA 4
#8 Thomas J. Quigley Broadcom 3
#8 Randy Demuynck Cree 3
#8 Andrew J. Ivory IBM 3
#8 Anthony H. Grieco Cisco 3
#8 Jones M. Hyman Biomerieux 3
#8 Douglas P. Taylor Tayco Developments 3
#14 Charles Douglas Taylor Micell Technologies 2
#14 Michael John Akerman Novozymes A/S 2
#14 Don Disbrow — 2
#14 Brian Marshall Burney — 2
#14 Richard A. Warriner Basf Agro B.V. 2
#14 Justin Raymond Hoglund Eaton 2
#14 Randall Deinhammer Novozymes A/S 2
#14 Daniel Namishia Cree 2
#14 J. Mark Weber — 2
#14 Vincent L. Deters Sas Institute 2
#14 Harry Chmielewski Paragon Trade Brands 2
#14 John P. Nuzzo IBM 2
#14 Gary F. Diamanti IBM 2
#14 Mauro J. Atalla Otis Elevator 2
#14 Joseph Anthony Holung Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 2
#14 Katherine Glasgow Sabic Innovative Plastics B.V. 2
#14 Daniel E. Moore IBM 2
#14 Charles Curtiss Hunt Sony 2
#32 Scot Blessington Fmr 1
#32 Thomas Place Cree 1
#32 Robert T. Jacobs Zeneca Limited 1
#32 Thomas P. Kieffer Vishay Measurements Group 1
#32 Peter Jardine Bayer Cropscience 1
#32 Terry Simpson Kidde Technologies 1
#32 Andrew Lees Centre Firearms Co. 1
#32 Jeffrey Scott MacFarland Netapp 1
#32 Wayne Curtis Yount Santarus 1
#32 Daniel P. Greenberg IBM 1
#32 James Nathan Schwartz Branch Banking And Trust 1
#32 Robert M. Solberg — 1
#32 Paul Ch. Kierkus — 1
#32 Mitchell J. Palmer United States Surgical 1
#32 Andrea Liebmann-Vinson Becton, Dickinson And 1
#32 Elizabeth K. Walker Altec Industries 1
#32 Dean Verhoeven Institut Francais Du Petrole 1
#32 Donald L. Higgins — 1
#32 Christopher L. Houseknecht IBM 1

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