Top Cities in North Carolina 2022

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 Raleigh, NC 1,704 829
#2 Cary, NC 1,235 551
#3 Charlotte, NC 1,151 645
#4 Durham, NC 1,149 661
#5 Chapel Hill, NC 541 302
#6 Apex, NC 388 215
#7 Morrisville, NC 378 184
#8 Winston-Salem, NC 313 167
#9 Greensboro, NC 181 138
#10 Hickory, NC 177 63
#11 Wilmington, NC 155 115
#12 Huntersville, NC 145 86
#13 Wake Forest, NC 133 78
#14 Mooresville, NC 128 63
#15 Pittsboro, NC 112 26
#16 Holly Springs, NC 100 64
#17 Beijing, NC 99 28
#18 Matthews, NC 93 42
#19 Waxhaw, NC 93 60
#20 Concord, NC 91 51
#21 Fuquay-Varina, NC 90 52
#22 Lo Wu, NC 86 12
#23 Asheville, NC 70 49
#24 Shanghai, NC 69 20
#25 Suwon-si, NC 67 9

Top Inventors in North Carolina 2022

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Russell Speight VanBlon Raleigh Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 79
2 Jerome Henry Pittsboro Cisco 70
3 Tianyi Gao Kirkwood Baidu Usa 47
#4 Aaron K. Baughman Cary IBM 42
#5 Martin G. Keen Cary IBM 41
#5 Nathan J. Peterson Oxford Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 41
#7 John Carl Mese Cary Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 36
#7 Carlos M. Pignataro Cary Cisco 36
#9 Scott Wentao Li Cary Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 33
#9 John M. Ganci, Jr. Raleigh IBM 33
#11 Melvin Glenn Mitchell Penrose Eastman Chemical 30
#11 Mark Patrick Delaney Raleigh Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 30
#13 Robert James Kapinos Durham Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 28
#14 Arnold S. Weksler Raleigh Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 27
#15 Christopher Bower Raleigh X-Celeprint Limited 26
#15 Robert James Norton, JR. Raleigh Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 26
#17 Ruthie D. Lyle Durham IBM 25
#17 Matthew Meitl Durham X-Celeprint Limited 25
#19 Nagendra Kumar Nainar Morrisville Cisco 23
#19 Phillip H. Griffin Raleigh Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 23
#19 Corville O. Allen Morrisville IBM 23
#19 Kevin Ahearn Nebo Berkshire Grey Operating Company 23
#23 John Weldon Nicholson Cary Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 21
#23 Yan Xu Cary Magic Leap 21
#25 Andrew J. Garner, IV State Road Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 20

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