Top Inventors in Cary, NC — 2021

Cary, NC ranks #84 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,469 patents from 600 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cary, NC include IBM, Cisco, Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.. That works out to 8.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 600 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Martin G. Keen	IBM	65
2	Aaron K. Baughman	IBM	56
3	Carlos M. Pignataro	Cisco	46
#4	John Carl Mese	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	40
#5	Trudy L. Hewitt	IBM	38
#6	Andrew R. Freed	IBM	25
#7	John Weldon Nicholson	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	22
#8	Scott Wentao Li	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	19
#9	Robert Paul Morris	Sitting Man	16
#10	Brian M. O'Connell	IBM	15
#10	Qing Gong	Byd Company Limited	15
#12	Kirk Spencer Francis	Trinity Bay Equipment Holdings	14
#13	Yan Xu	Magic Leap	13
#13	Song Wang	—	13
#15	Rui Zhang	IBM	11
#16	Bernadette A. Carter	IBM	10
#16	Jenny S. Li	IBM	10
#16	Howard Locker	Lenovo (United States)	10
#16	Cuong Huy Truong	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	10
#20	Rakesh Thakare	Amphenol	8
#20	Ronald Earl Stogner	Sas Institute	8
#20	Kyoung Min Lee	Cj Cheiljedang	8
#20	Henry Gabriel Victor Bequet	Sas Institute	8
#24	Steven Matthew Just	Valencell	7
#24	Aysu Ezen Can	IBM	7
#24	Thomas J. Evans, IV	IBM	7
#24	Brook Raymond	X Display Company Technology Limited	7
#24	Adam Jerome Cavenaugh	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	7
#24	Eric D. Agdeppa	Hill-Rom Services	7
#24	Timothy Winthrop Kingsbury	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	7
#24	Randy Bernard	Ideal Industries Lighting	7
#32	Bina K. Thakkar	Emc Ip Holding Company	6
#32	Richard J. Schuman	Hill-Rom Services	6
#32	William J. Green	—	6
#32	Juan F. Vargas	IBM	6
#32	Xun Liu	Convenientpower Hk Limited	6
#32	Jianbang Zhang	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	6
#32	Michael J. Whitney	IBM	6
#32	Dwi Sianto Mansjur	IBM	6
#32	Scott David Huss	Cadence Design Systems	6
#32	Brett Alan Wujek	Sas Institute	6
#42	Mona Singh	Scenera Technologies	5
#42	Bradley Allen Jones	Sas Institute	5
#42	Qingchun Zhang	Cree	5
#42	Pradeep Kumar Nandam	Eaton Intelligent Power Limited	5
#42	Nataraj Nagaratnam	IBM	5
#42	John Williams Palmour	Cree	5
#42	Xuewen Li	Nortel Networks Limited	5
#42	Ajit Jariwala	IBM	5
#42	Scott Labrozzi	Disney	5

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