Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Morrisville, NC ranks #282 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 485 patents from 199 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Morrisville, NC include IBM, Cisco, Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.. That works out to 16.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 199 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Corville O. Allen IBM 50
2 Nagendra Kumar Nainar Cisco 36
3 Joseph N. Kozhaya IBM 19
#4 Rajiv Asati Cisco 14
#5 Jeffrey E. Skinner Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 7
#5 Shivam Priyadarshi Qualcomm 7
#5 David Alexander Schwarz Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 7
#5 Judith H. Bank IBM 7
#9 Eric Jian Yang Sas Institute 6
#9 Rebecca E. Thayer Agbiome 6
#9 Zhenyu Yang Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 6
#12 Jin Hong Lim Ideal Industries Lighting 5
#12 Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh Microsoft 5
#12 Thomas Perelli Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 5
#12 Naveen Sunkavally Emc Ip Holding Company 5
#16 Ciaran E. Hannigan IBM 4
#16 Kyle Damborsky Creeled 4
#16 Caleb Bridges King Sas Institute 4
#16 Thorsten Peter Stremlau Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 4
#16 Matthew G. deBock Spr Therapeutics 4
#16 Jennifer Lee-Baron Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 4
#16 Richard W. Phelps Unisys 4
#16 Andrew T. Thorstensen IBM 4
#16 Justin Michael Ringuette Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 4
#16 Marit L. Imsdahl IBM 4
#16 Jonathan Gaither Knox Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 4
#16 Scott N. Gerard IBM 4
#16 Jeffrey A. Calcaterra IBM 4
#29 Mark W. Roberson Halliburton Energy Services 3
#29 Melissa K. Miller IBM 3
#29 John Donohoe K2M 3
#29 Arthur Perais Microsoft 3
#29 Chaowang “Ricky” Zhang Sas Institute 3
#29 Chris Hardiman Cree 3
#29 Vance Cary Kramer Syngenta Participations Ag 3
#29 Abdul Basit Netapp 3
#29 Scott Goodwin Halliburton Energy Services 3
#29 Jason Schmidt Tyratech 3
#29 John M. Petersen Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 3
#29 Martha Alicia De La Rosa Ardea Biosciences 3
#29 Andrey Bushev Align Technology 3
#29 Alexander Richard Phelps Sas Institute 3
#29 Ana C. Biazetti IBM 3
#29 Gary David Trott Cree 3
#29 Wieslaw Mieczyslaw Kazmierski Glaxosmithkline Intellectual Property Development Limited 3
#29 Matthew Hilliard Safran Landing Systems Uk 3
#47 Haiping Hong Bioriginal Food & Science 2
#47 Maneesh Chirangattu Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. 2
#47 Hao Hong Asymchem Laboratories (Tianjin) Co. 2
#47 David Perez-Feliciano Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 2

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