North Carolina — Patent Inventors 2023

Top Cities in North Carolina 2023

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Raleigh, NC	1,527	798
#2	Cary, NC	1,217	575
#3	Charlotte, NC	1,203	697
#4	Durham, NC	1,058	606
#5	Chapel Hill, NC	572	291
#6	Apex, NC	389	215
#7	Winston-Salem, NC	378	195
#8	Morrisville, NC	347	172
#9	Huntersville, NC	180	86
#10	Greensboro, NC	164	109
#11	Mooresville, NC	156	78
#12	Hickory, NC	155	61
#13	Wilmington, NC	137	97
#14	Concord, NC	132	73
#15	Wake Forest, NC	131	77
#16	Holly Springs, NC	112	60
#17	Beijing, NC	109	33
#18	Waxhaw, NC	109	61
#19	Pittsboro, NC	106	21
#20	Kirkwood, NC	90	1
#21	Cornelius, NC	86	33
#22	Shanghai, NC	83	22
#23	Matthews, NC	81	44
#24	Clemmons, NC	81	38
#25	Suwon-si, NC	79	7

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Tianyi Gao	Kirkwood	Baidu Usa	90
2	Jerome Henry	Pittsboro	Cisco	68
3	Ruthie D. Lyle	Durham	IBM	40
#4	Carlos M. Pignataro	Cary	Cisco	36
#5	Martin G. Keen	Cary	IBM	34
#6	Nagendra Kumar Nainar	Morrisville	Cisco	33
#6	Aaron K. Baughman	Cary	IBM	33
#8	Robert M. Walker	Raleigh	Micron	31
#8	Anthony Louis Marfione	Mills River	Microtech Knives	31
#10	Ikenna Odinaka	Durham	Kepler Computing	29
#10	Phillip H. Griffin	Raleigh	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	29
#12	Russell Speight VanBlon	Raleigh	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	27
#12	Joseph W. Forbes, Jr.	Raleigh	Causam Energy	27
#14	Kyle Chumchal	Fletcher	Microtech Knives	25
#14	Andrew J. Garner, IV	State Road	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	25
#16	Kevin Ahearn	Nebo	Berkshire Grey Operating Company	24
#16	George Albero	Charlotte	Bank of America	24
#18	Jeffrey B. Shealy	Cornelius	Akoustis	22
#19	John Crawford	Canton	Microtech Knives	21
#20	John M. Ganci, Jr.	Raleigh	IBM	20
#21	Stephen Benson Sears	Siler City	Rai Strategic Holdings	19
#21	Jason Higley	Hickory	Us Conec	19
#23	Blake Harrell Anderson	Chapel Hill	Cisco	18
#24	Matthew Meitl	Durham	X-Celeprint Limited	17
#24	Christopher Bower	Raleigh	X-Celeprint Limited	17