Top Inventors in Canton, NC | Patent Leaderboard

Canton, NC ranks #11,180 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 169 patents from 44 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Canton, NC include Microtech Knives, Champion International Corporation Limited, Alltec. That works out to 38.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–44 of 44 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	John Crawford	Microtech Knives	31
2	Kenneth P. Thompson	Champion International Corporation Limited	15
3	Christopher A. Bean	Alltec	9
3	James H. Toney, Jr.	GE	9
#5	Jonas L. Gunter	Dayco Products	8
#6	Linda K. Roberson	—	7
#6	Brandon Rogers	Streamlight	7
#6	David M. Nelson	Federal-Mogul Worldwide	7
#9	Robert D. Tyler	Winfield Consumer Products	6
#9	James Mathis	Low & Bonar	6
#11	James David Ralph Buchanan	Ingenia Holdings Limited	5
#11	Phillip Daniel Heatherly	—	5
#13	Charles D. Womack	Trn Business Trust	4
#14	Robert K. Hyatt	Basf Se	3
#14	Troy Eugene Ball, Jr.	Kiln Drying Systems & Components	3
#16	Dan C. Tate	Champion International Corporation Limited	2
#16	Zachary G. Shoaf	Basf Se	2
#16	Joe Worley	Dayco Products	2
#16	Joseph C. Worley	Dayco Products	2
#16	Brian Gormley	IBM	2
#16	Linnea Brady Keen	—	2
#16	Pauline Alexander	—	2
#16	James Messer	Day International	2
#16	Mike Holmes	Bsh Home Appliances	2
#16	Denny King	Borgwarner	2
#16	Isaac John Medford	Duke Energy	2
#16	Rob Tyler	Freudenberg Performance Materials B.V.	2
#16	Travis Riddle	—	2
#16	Harold L. Manning, Jr.	E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And	2
#16	Gregory Henson	W.P. Hickman	2
#31	Raymond L. Denney	Basf Se	1
#31	David S. Smiley	Champion International Corporation Limited	1
#31	Kevin Pressley	W.P. Hickman	1
#31	Steven Frohock	—	1
#31	Jerry D. Pace	Champion International Corporation Limited	1
#31	James Martin Deaton, III	Bemis Associates	1
#31	Perry B. Moore	—	1
#31	D. Wayne Henson	—	1
#31	Locke Jones	—	1
#31	David Whatton	—	1
#31	Hugh T. Allen	—	1
#31	Stacy Dewayne Cagle	—	1
#31	Frank E. Hannah	—	1
#31	Bryan Clay Burke	—	1

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