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Wake Forest, NC 2020

164 patents  ·  93 inventors  ·  3.5/1k pop.

Ranked #943 of 44,574 cities Top 3%

Wake Forest, NC ranks #943 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 164 patents from 93 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wake Forest, NC include IBM, Lenovo (Singapore) Pte., Rambus. That works out to 3.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 93 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gary F. Diamanti IBM 12
2 Suzanne Marion Beaumont Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 5
2 John Wilson Rambus 5
#4 Hazim Hashim Dahir Cisco 4
#4 Charles Douglas Taylor Micell Technologies 4
#4 Xinyu Shen Novozymes A/S 4
#4 Robert T. Jacobs Zeneca Limited 4
#8 Andrew Lees Centre Firearms Co. 3
#8 Harry Chmielewski Paragon Trade Brands 3
#8 Jeffrey L. Sorenson Terarecon 3
#8 Scott Brown Schneider Electric Usa 3
#8 Mark Alan Siver 360° Ballistics 3
#8 Scott McClure IBM 3
#8 William S. Hanson Bayer Cropscience 3
#8 Joshua Neil Novak Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 3
#8 Randall Deinhammer Novozymes A/S 3
#8 Bernardo Vidal, Jr. Novozymes A/S 3
#8 Yeshwant Nagaraj Kolla Qualcomm 3
#8 Pasi Taimela Flexgen Power Systems 3
#20 Wesley J. Gyure IBM 2
#20 Anthony Edward Stuart Allscripts Software 2
#20 Julius Goth, III IBM 2
#20 Daniel Stephen Gardiner Protochips 2
#20 Kenneth James Essig Bayer Cropscience 2
#20 Dharmendr Len Seebaluck Hamilton Sundstrand 2
#20 Gerard James Hayes — 2
#20 Stephanie L. Trunzo IBM 2
#20 John J. Shea Eaton 2
#20 Thomas Place Cree 2
#20 Nicholas Leonard Oddo Aires Medical Llc. 2
#20 Terry Simpson Kidde Technologies 2
#20 Jones M. Hyman Biomerieux 2
#20 Andrew J. Ivory IBM 2
#20 Randy Deinhammer Novozymes A/S 2
#20 Thomas Philip Speier Qualcomm 2
#36 David C. Ferguson Hill-Rom Services 1
#36 Doss Calvin Weatherly — 1
#36 Kevin Perveiler — 1
#36 Jonathan T. Walter Valencell 1
#36 Vincent L. Deters Sas Institute 1
#36 Donald W. Roberts Boyce Thompson Institute For Plant Research 1
#36 Robert Matesevac Exfo 1
#36 J. Mark Weber — 1
#36 Guillermo Coward Kelly Novozymes A/S 1
#36 Christopher Michael Atkins Sensus Spectrum 1
#36 Dan Namishia Cree 1
#36 Rakesh Khan Fdh Infrastructure Services 1
#36 Wayne Machon — 1
#36 Michael Richard Floyd Parata Systems 1
#36 Heather Cudak — 1

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