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Burlington, NC All Time

782 patents  ·  226 inventors  ·  13.7/1k pop.

Ranked #3,741 of 112,640 cities Top 4%

Burlington, NC ranks #3,741 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 782 patents from 226 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Burlington, NC include Soilgenic Technologies, Tripath Imaging, Endura Products. That works out to 13.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 226 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Randall Linwood Rayborn Soilgenic Technologies 42
2 William Alan Fox Tripath Imaging 26
3 Adam Kendall Endura Products 23
#4 Roger M. Ilagan United Therapeutics 20
#5 Rodney D. Dixon Mebane Packaging Group 18
#6 Charles David Orr Confinement Telephony Technology 17
#7 Julius R. Schnegg Burlington Industries 15
#7 David A. Koester Mcnc 15
#9 Samuel B. Moore Burlington Chemical Co. 14
#9 Steven R. Hilliard Inductive Signature Technologies 14
#11 Samuel Mark Gillette Precision Fabrics Group 13
#11 Anthony Lee Dellinger — 13
#13 Edward G. Apple GE 12
#13 Walter H. Imboden Sara Lee 12
#15 Charles William Mann Pfizer 11
#15 Ramesh Krishnamurthy Applied Materials 11
#15 Stephen Parker Qorvo Us 11
#15 William H. Spencer Liberty Hardware Mfg. 11
#15 Lynn Buckner — 11
#15 Robert I. Farrow American Multimedia 11
#15 Charles Piper GE 11
#22 William Wheeler Lockheed Martin 10
#22 Harper Shields Kayser-Roth Hosiery 10
#24 Dean E. Hartley Honda Motor Co. 9
#25 Charles L. Carrico, Jr. Tripath Imaging 8
#26 Charles Crawford Hdn Development 7
#26 Jennifer Gao Cree 7
#26 Paul Conlin Microsoft 7
#26 R. Samuel Hunt, III Atlas Lighting Products 7
#26 James Thornhill Leath Eyenovia 7
#26 Kenneth M. McGovern — 7
#32 Teegan L. Kelly Honda Motor Co. 6
#32 Robert Workman Westrock Mwv 6
#32 Travis Graves American Regent 6
#32 Brendon Christopher Stout Virdia 6
#32 Brian Scott Oakley IBM 6
#37 Melvin C. Euliss Kayser-Roth Hosiery 5
#37 Brian Cousineau Infineon Technologies Ag 5
#37 Patrick N. Morefield Engineered Controls International 5
#37 Victor Lombardi Capital One Services 5
#37 Kenny Gentile Analog Devices 5
#37 Charles D. Pugh Burlington Industries 5
#37 Michael I. Glenn Burlington Industries 5
#37 Kenneth P. White Brookhaven Science Associates 5
#37 Albert Johnson Glen Raven 5
#46 Donald M. Baughn Tyco Electronics Co. 4
#46 Bobby Jordan Kayser-Roth Hosiery 4
#46 Thomas I. McLean Kingsdown 4
#46 William B. Cothran Kayser-Roth Hosiery 4
#46 Patrick Haden Jennings — 4

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