Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Carrboro, NC ranks #2,681 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 47 patents from 27 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Carrboro, NC include Meta, Honda Motor Co., IBM. That works out to 2.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–27 of 27 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Carl Schissler Meta 6
2 Shivang Desai Honda Motor Co. 5
3 Natarajan Vaidhyanathan IBM 3
3 Brandon M. Ayers Hill-Rom Services 3
#5 Thomas E. Barta Srx Cardio 2
#5 Benjamin John Sokol Sensus Spectrum 2
#5 Robert K. Pinschmidt, Jr. Air Products And Chemicals 2
#5 Charles M. Perou University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 2
#5 Mohit Bansal Highradius 2
#5 Anil J. Reddy Seagate Technology 2
#5 Aaron Martin Precision Biosciences 2
#12 Edward Perkins Iconix Pharmaceuticals 1
#12 Peter S. McKinnis Muffin Incorporated 1
#12 Disha M. Gandhi Marquette University 1
#12 Simon Bubel Wolfspeed 1
#12 Tal Kafri University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 1
#12 Giridhar Murlidharan University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 1
#12 Pavak Kirit Shah University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 1
#12 Ranathunga Arachchillage Yamuna Kumari Ariyarathna University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 1
#12 Long Ping Victor Tse University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 1
#12 Luca Turin 1
#12 Haibao Jin University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 1
#12 Jason Henning Cree 1
#12 Michael D. Bucher Rambus 1
#12 Matthew Gallovic University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 1
#12 Joseph E. Rabinowitz University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 1
#12 Praneeth Kumar Chakravarthula University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 1

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