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Apex, NC 2021

441 patents  ·  224 inventors  ·  7.5/1k pop.

Ranked #318 of 43,435 cities Top 1%

Apex, NC ranks #318 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 441 patents from 224 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Apex, NC include IBM, Parallel Wireless, Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.. That works out to 7.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 224 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Al Chakra IBM 30
2 Sumit Garg Parallel Wireless 9
3 Roberto DeLima IBM 8
3 Bouziane Yebka Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 8
3 Ankit Singh Dell Products 8
#6 David Contreras IBM 7
#7 Jessica Parks Agbiome 6
#8 Chad Clayton Walters Titan Medical 5
#8 Amandeep Singh Amazon 5
#8 Jesse William Bennett Blackberry Limited 5
#8 David L. Foshee Sta-Med 5
#12 Peter Hamilton Wetsel Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 4
#12 Collin Davidson Hill-Rom Services 4
#12 Nathan Thomas Luck Uv Innovators 4
#12 Karan Mehra Microsoft 4
#12 Corey Benjamin Groce Citrix Systems 4
#12 Glenn Rinne Amkor Technology 4
#12 John Emerson Bisi G1 Therapeutics 4
#12 Hans Christian Pflaumer Titan Medical 4
#12 James Michael Lay Cree 4
#12 Kai Shen Micro Motion 4
#12 Jasper Cabalu Cree 4
#12 Matthew Klein Liberty Hardware Mfg. 4
#12 James D. Otvos Liposcience 4
#25 James Marvin Veal Bristol-Myers Squibb 3
#25 Carl Thomas Gray NVIDIA 3
#25 William F. Sulzen Cisco 3
#25 Aaron Francis Creeled 3
#25 Matthew Fontaine Curtis-Maury Netapp 3
#25 Neal J. Middelberg Bell & Howell Mail Processing Systems 3
#25 RYAN MICHAEL GERBER Pioneer (Corteva) 3
#25 Mary A. Curran IBM 3
#25 Michael David Herring Te Connectivity Co. 3
#25 Alexander John Maret Asensus Surgical Us 3
#25 Brian Payton Bowman Sas Institute 3
#25 Dale R. Carlson Basf Se 3
#25 Venkata V. Gadepalli IBM 3
#25 Colin Beaton Verrilli IBM 3
#25 Vinay Devadas Netapp 3
#25 Marc Pugh Smartflow Technologies 3
#25 Deepak Singh IBM 3
#25 Mark Vander Hoff Smartflow Technologies 3
#25 James Norris Dieffenderfer Qualcomm 3
#25 Samuel R. Connor IBM 3
#25 Hamza Mustafa Ghadyali Sas Institute 3
#25 Robert W. Huigens, III North Carolina State University 3
#25 Sterling R. Smith IBM 3
#25 Kedar Shriram Prabhudesai Sas Institute 3
#25 Jeffery Michael Rosino Uv Innovators 3
#50 Abraham Allen Shipley Titan Medical 2

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