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Wake Forest, NC 2021

161 patents  ·  94 inventors  ·  3.4/1k pop.

Ranked #911 of 43,435 cities Top 3%

Wake Forest, NC ranks #911 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 161 patents from 94 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wake Forest, NC include Qualcomm, IBM, Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.. That works out to 3.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 94 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Thomas Philip Speier Qualcomm 8
2 Gary F. Diamanti IBM 7
3 Joseph Anthony Holung Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 5
3 Suzanne Marion Beaumont Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 5
#5 Daniel E. Moore IBM 4
#5 Nicholas Leonard Oddo Aires Medical Llc. 4
#5 Andrew Lees Centre Firearms Co. 4
#5 Joshua Neil Novak Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 4
#5 Eugene Irving Kelton IBM 4
#5 John Wilson Rambus 4
#11 Jonathan T. Walter Valencell 3
#11 Randy Deinhammer Novozymes A/S 3
#11 Terry Simpson Kidde Technologies 3
#11 Robert T. Jacobs Zeneca Limited 3
#11 Peter Jardine Bayer Cropscience 3
#11 Gerard James Hayes — 3
#11 Xinyu Shen Novozymes A/S 3
#11 Charles Douglas Taylor Micell Technologies 3
#19 Michael John Akerman Novozymes A/S 2
#19 Bernardo Vidal, Jr. Novozymes A/S 2
#19 Anthony Edward Stuart Allscripts Software 2
#19 Daniel Stephen Gardiner Protochips 2
#19 Jeffrey T. Layton IBM 2
#19 Steven Wuester Creeled 2
#19 Andrew J. Ivory IBM 2
#19 Mark Alan Siver 360° Ballistics 2
#19 Dan Namishia Cree 2
#19 Jeffrey L. Sorenson Terarecon 2
#19 Marcelo Vinante Emc Ip Holding Company 2
#19 Scott Brown Schneider Electric Usa 2
#31 Philip Radford Milliken & 1
#31 Christopher A. Maul IBM 1
#31 John M. Weber — 1
#31 Gary M. Birk Tersus Environmental 1
#31 Robert David Schmidt Creeled 1
#31 Ralph Edward Barthel Preferred Technology 1
#31 Stephanie L. Trunzo IBM 1
#31 David Hunt American Cyanamid 1
#31 Michael Celedonia IBM 1
#31 Thomas J. Quigley Broadcom 1
#31 Craig Lowery Lombardi Consolidated Graphics 1
#31 Stewart T. Sill IBM 1
#31 Jean Elizabeth Hidden IBM 1
#31 Keith Rafferty IBM 1
#31 John A. Gelardi — 1
#31 Timothy M. Smiley Altec Industries 1
#31 Hazim Hashim Dahir Cisco 1
#31 Richard M. Plane Cisco 1
#31 Michael J. Iantosca IBM 1
#31 Mike Thomas Impinj 1

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