Top Inventors in Apex, NC | Patent Leaderboard

Apex, NC ranks #298 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 10,189 patents from 1,394 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Apex, NC include IBM, Cisco, Cree. That works out to 173.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,394 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Al Chakra	IBM	284
2	Billy Gayle Moon	Cisco	129
3	Colin Beaton Verrilli	IBM	123
#4	James Michael Lay	Cree	120
#5	James Norris Dieffenderfer	Qualcomm	118
#6	Alfredo C. Issa	Qurio Holdings	115
#7	James Marvin Veal	Bristol-Myers Squibb	107
#7	Brian S. Beaman	IBM	107
#9	James Peter Ward	IBM	100
#10	Galen C. Robertson	Johnson & Johnson	93
#11	Karan Mehra	Microsoft	85
#12	Christopher M. Amidon	Qurio Holdings	84
#13	Sumit Garg	Parallel Wireless	83
#14	Glenn Rinne	Amkor Technology	81
#15	Masud Beroz	Tessera	77
#16	Ankit Singh	Dell Products	72
#17	Shareef F. Alshinnawi	—	70
#18	Brian Mitchell Bass	IBM	69
#19	Michael J. McMahon	Illinois Tool Works	68
#20	Bouziane Yebka	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	67
#21	James C. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Fletcher	IBM	66
#22	Paul A. Wormsbecher	IBM	65
#23	Chris O'Rourke	Cisco	62
#24	Rohith K. Ashok	IBM	61
#25	Justin P. Bandholz	IBM	58
#26	Deepak Singh	IBM	57
#27	Dinakaran Joseph	IBM	55
#28	Michael David Herring	Te Connectivity Co.	54
#28	David L. Foshee	Sta-Med	54
#30	Michael M. Walters	Intersil Americas	51
#31	William Roberson	Arisaka	45
#32	Roberto DeLima	IBM	44
#33	Bryan C. Turner	Cisco	43
#34	Burt Lee Price	Qualcomm	42
#34	John K. Gerken, III	IBM	42
#34	Samuel R. Connor	IBM	42
#37	Martin Joseph Crippen	IBM	41
#37	James D. Otvos	Liposcience	41
#39	James E. Fox	IBM	40
#39	Ralph E. Dewey	North Carolina State University	40
#39	Michael A. Funari	Zurn Industries	40
#42	Charles Albert Rudisill	—	39
#42	Craig Moore	Katalyst Surgical	39
#42	Matthew Fontaine Curtis-Maury	Netapp	39
#45	Igor Stolbikov	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	38
#46	Scott Joseph Uknes	Agbiome	37
#46	Douglas D. Anspaugh	Basf Se	37
#48	Joseph Michael Pennisi	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	36
#48	Thomas E. Whittlesey	Tipper Tie	36
#48	Anthony Matteo Gallo	IBM	36

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