Top Inventors in Cary, NC | Patent Leaderboard

Cary, NC ranks #86 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 29,308 patents from 3,681 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cary, NC include IBM, Cisco, Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.. That works out to 167.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,681 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Brian M. O'Connell	IBM	496
2	Martin G. Keen	IBM	444
3	Aaron K. Baughman	IBM	384
#4	Carlos M. Pignataro	Cisco	341
#5	John Carl Mese	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	291
#6	Howard Locker	Lenovo (United States)	289
#7	Peter D. Karabinis	Atc Technologies	228
#8	James G. Whayne	Ep Technologies	221
#9	Robert Paul Morris	Sitting Man	202
#10	Trudy L. Hewitt	IBM	198
#11	John Weldon Nicholson	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	177
#12	Andrew R. Freed	IBM	169
#13	Gerald George Pechanek	Intel	161
#14	Jenny S. Li	IBM	153
#15	Scott Wentao Li	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	151
#16	Gregory E. Bottomley	Ericsson	146
#17	Mona Singh	Scenera Technologies	128
#18	Yan Xu	Magic Leap	118
#19	Rui Zhang	IBM	117
#20	Kenneth Warren Hang	E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And	115
#21	John Toebes	Cisco	114
#22	David W. Sherrer	Nuvotronics	113
#23	Sei-Hyung Ryu	Cree	107
#24	Qing Gong	Byd Company Limited	100
#25	John H. Yoakum	Avaya	98
#26	Hayden C. Cranford, Jr.	IBM	96
#27	Scott Edwards Kelso	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	95
#28	Richard Redpath	IBM	94
#28	James Michael Ferris	IBM	94
#30	Bernadette A. Carter	IBM	93
#30	Mark E. Molander	IBM	93
#32	Qing Li	Hangzhou Ruisheng Software Co.	92
#33	Lisa M. Bradley	IBM	91
#33	Franky So	Motorola	91
#35	Nataraj Nagaratnam	IBM	89
#36	Eskinder Hailu	IBM	87
#37	Paul M. Enquist	Ziptronix	86
#37	Randhir S. Malik	IBM	86
#37	Richard Gerard Hofmann	IBM	86
#40	Qingchun Zhang	Cree	85
#40	Richard J. Schuman	Hill-Rom Services	85
#42	David Wayne Hill	IBM	84
#43	John Williams Palmour	Cree	83
#44	Jianbang Zhang	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	75
#45	Karl Molnar	Ericsson	74
#46	Song Wang	—	72
#47	Kevin Haberern	Cree	70
#47	David M. Ogle	IBM	70
#47	Brett Olsson	IBM	70
#50	Manmohan Singh	Glaxosmithkline Biologicals Sa	69

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