Top Inventors in Durham, NC — 2021

Durham, NC ranks #110 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,186 patents from 654 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Durham, NC include IBM, X-Celeprint Limited, Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.. That works out to 4.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 654 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Ruthie D. Lyle	IBM	24
2	Matthew Meitl	X-Celeprint Limited	20
3	Robert James Kapinos	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	19
#4	Brendan Bull	IBM	14
#5	Xianjun Zhu	IBM	13
#6	Peter Scott Andrews	Cree	9
#6	Charles S. Lingafelt	IBM	9
#6	Jesse Gilsinger	Monsanto Technology	9
#9	Philip John Jakes	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	8
#9	Mark F. Oldham	Applied Biosystems	8
#9	Stephen M. Grenon	Tearscience	8
#9	David R. Smith	Intellectual Ventures	8
#9	Barton F. Haynes	Duke University	8
#14	Allan Porterfield	Micron	7
#14	Andrew Miller	Restor3D	7
#14	Anant Agarwal	Cree	7
#14	George FROMM	Shattuck Labs	7
#14	Randall Levy Bernard	Ideal Industries Lighting	7
#14	Colin Tschida	Abb Schweiz Ag	7
#14	William L. Athas	Boston Scientific Scimed	7
#21	Becky Welsh Breitinger	Syngenta Participations Ag	6
#21	Ryan Charles Knudson	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	6
#21	Francis Xavier Tavares	G1 Therapeutics	6
#21	Ashutosh Chilkoti	Duke University	6
#21	Eric Woods	IBM	6
#21	Gerard J. Hall	Sportsmedia Technology	6
#21	Alexander Meagher Grau	Sensel	6
#21	Fred Allison Bower, III	—	6
#21	Gennaro A. Cuomo	IBM	6
#21	Guy S. Lipworth	Searete	6
#21	Brock Alan Forrest	8 Rivers Capital	6
#21	David John Steiner	Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions	6
#33	Leah Marie Johnson	Research Triangle Institute	5
#33	Jorge Manuel Gomes da Silva	—	5
#33	Lanty L. Smith	Scion Neurostim	5
#33	Miles R. Palmer	8 Rivers Capital	5
#33	Hua-Xin Liao	Duke University	5
#33	John R. Gilbert	Cytonome/St	5
#33	Xijia Lu	8 Rivers Capital	5
#33	Chunhui Yang	IBM	5
#33	Michael D. Lynch	Duke University	5
#33	Kyle Miller	Marathon Petroleum Company Lp	5
#33	Ginger Denison Rothrock	University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill	5
#33	Peter A. Torrione	Helmerich & Payne Technologies	5
#33	Camillo Sassano	IBM	5
#33	Ashley Kristin Silva	IBM	5
#47	John Edmond	Cree	4
#47	Qing Duan	Microsoft	4
#47	John Scott Crowe	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	4
#47	Eli B. Nichols	Becton, Dickinson And	4

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