Top Inventors in Raleigh, NC — 2021

Raleigh, NC ranks #55 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,963 patents from 908 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Raleigh, NC include Lenovo (Singapore) Pte., IBM, X-Celeprint Limited. That works out to 4.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 908 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Russell Speight VanBlon	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	78
2	John M. Ganci, Jr.	IBM	56
3	Mark Patrick Delaney	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	33
#4	Arnold S. Weksler	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	25
#5	Christopher Bower	X-Celeprint Limited	19
#6	Phillip H. Griffin	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	18
#6	Joseph W. Forbes, Jr.	Causam Energy	18
#6	Steven Francis LeBoeuf	Valencell	18
#9	Gonzalo Salgueiro	Cisco	17
#9	Jana H. Jenkins	IBM	17
#9	Bo Zhang	IBM	17
#12	Robert M. Walker	Micron	16
#13	Michael Edward Aumer	Valencell	15
#14	Daryl Cromer	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	14
#14	Christopher J. Hardee	IBM	14
#16	Robert James Norton, JR.	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	13
#17	Gary D. Cudak	—	12
#17	Timothy Peter Stammers	Cisco	12
#19	Aaron J. Quirk	IBM	11
#19	Colin Blakely	Creeled	11
#21	Randy A. Rendahl	IBM	10
#21	Joseph Michael Clarke	Cisco	10
#21	Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	10
#24	Brian Boothe	Pentair Water Pool And Spa	9
#24	Robert Ernest Troxler	Troxler Electronic Laboratories	9
#24	Laura Thiel	Lat Enterprises	9
#27	Christopher P. Hussell	Cree	8
#27	Zachary M. Greenberger	IBM	8
#27	Giancarlo Urzi	Lat Enterprises	8
#30	Zakaryae Fathi	Immunolight	7
#30	Shadi E. Albouyeh	IBM	7
#30	Richard Roger Evans	Basf Se	7
#30	David B. Lection	IBM	7
#30	Jeremy Eron Fetvedt	8 Rivers Capital	7
#30	Kenneth Scott Seethaler	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	7
#30	Carlos Cid	Lat Enterprises	7
#30	Kevin Wayne Beck	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	7
#30	Rodney Wayne Smith	Qualcomm	7
#39	Christopher James Hazard	Diveplane	6
#39	Darryl M. Adderly	IBM	6
#39	Michael Scott McIlvaine	Qualcomm	6
#39	Scott E. Liddle	Hollister Incorporated	6
#39	Darren H. Touchell	North Carolina State University	6
#39	Christopher Michael Gotwalt	Sas Institute	6
#39	Daniel Jenner Lichtenwalner	Wolfspeed	6
#39	Lincoln Penn Hancock	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	6
#39	Kenzi L. Mudge	Hill-Rom Services	6
#39	Benjamin Michael Parees	IBM	6
#49	Carl Prevatte	X-Celeprint Limited	5
#49	Theodore J. Mosler	Smiths Medical Asd	5

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