Top Inventors in Durham, NC — 2020

Durham, NC ranks #128 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 1,084 patents from 617 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Durham, NC include Lenovo (Singapore) Pte., X-Celeprint Limited, Cree. That works out to 3.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 617 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Robert James Kapinos	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	25
2	Matthew Meitl	X-Celeprint Limited	15
3	Fred Allison Bower, III	—	13
#4	John Scott Crowe	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	12
#5	Peter Scott Andrews	Cree	10
#6	Derek Jantz	Precision Biosciences	9
#7	Eric Woods	IBM	8
#7	Barton F. Haynes	Duke University	8
#7	Patrick Llull	Google	8
#7	Mark F. Oldham	Applied Biosystems	8
#7	George FROMM	Shattuck Labs	8
#7	Charles S. Lingafelt	IBM	8
#13	Guy S. Lipworth	Searete	7
#13	John W. Wilson	Axon Enterprise	7
#13	Yuan Lin	Carestream Health	7
#13	David R. Smith	Intellectual Ventures	7
#17	Ryan Charles Knudson	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	6
#17	Anant Agarwal	Cree	6
#17	Andrew Miller	Restor3D	6
#20	Jesse Gilsinger	Monsanto Technology	5
#20	Joshua Allen	IBM	5
#20	Robert C. Williams, Jr.	Nike	5
#20	Ruthie D. Lyle	IBM	5
#20	Joe B. Perales	Avista Pharma Solutions	5
#20	Becky Welsh Breitinger	Syngenta Participations Ag	5
#20	Roarke Horstmeyer	Caltech	5
#20	John R. Gilbert	Cytonome/St	5
#20	Camillo Sassano	IBM	5
#20	Michael R. Billau	IBM	5
#20	Tuan Vo-Dinh	Duke University	5
#20	Sidney D. Fleischman	Ep Technologies	5
#20	Jian Zhang	Zte	5
#20	Brian M. Rogers	IBM	5
#20	Brendan Bull	IBM	5
#35	Eli B. Nichols	Becton, Dickinson And	4
#35	Francis Xavier Tavares	G1 Therapeutics	4
#35	Konstantinos Christidis	IBM	4
#35	Laura J. Rodriguez	IBM	4
#35	John Edmond	Cree	4
#35	Michael D. Whitley	IBM	4
#35	Colin Tschida	Abb Schweiz Ag	4
#35	Sudhir Shrikantha Kudva	NVIDIA	4
#35	Justin Winter	Diamond Candles	4
#35	Stephen M. Grenon	Tearscience	4
#35	Matthew R. Alcorn	—	4
#35	Steven Lingafelt	IBM	4
#35	Anthony M. Diaz	IBM	4
#35	Hua-Xin Liao	Duke University	4
#35	William J. Hoekstra	Viamet Pharmaceuticals	4
#35	Qiu Wang	Siemens Healthcare Limited	4

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