Top Inventors in Chapel Hill, NC

Chapel Hill, NC ranks #191 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 15,101 patents from 1,999 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Chapel Hill, NC include Cree, Lenovo (Singapore) Pte., Tekelec. That works out to 243.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,999 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Gerald H. Negley	Cree	264
2	Randall Scott Springfield	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	183
3	Peter J. Marsico	Tekelec	163
#4	Michael R. Johnson	Parion Sciences	149
#5	David L. Kaminsky	IBM	145
#6	John W. Poulton	Rambus	139
#7	John R. Flanagan	IBM	127
#8	Clark Debs Jeffries	IBM	122
#9	William O. Camp, Jr.	Sony	111
#10	Wolfgang Wagner	U.S. Philips	109
#11	Eric R. Kern	IBM	108
#12	Richard S. Stack	Synecor	104
#13	Scott Sheppard	Cree	101
#14	Tin-Lup Wong	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	97
#15	Mitchell A. deLong	Aerie Pharmaceuticals	88
#16	Blake Harrell Anderson	Cisco	87
#17	Steven E. Molnar	NVIDIA	85
#18	Joseph W. Boggs, II	Spr Therapeutics	84
#18	Jeffrey S. Kimmel	Netapp	84
#20	Warren M. Grill	Duke University	83
#21	Amy Leigh Rose	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	81
#22	Richard A. Glenn	Boston Scientific Scimed	79
#23	Eric C. Burt	Magpul Industries	77
#24	Kambiz Zangi	Ericsson	76
#25	James K. Min	Cleerly	72
#25	Robert Gregory Twiss	Cisco	72
#27	Andrew A. Young	Amylin Pharmaceuticals	69
#28	Richard Jude Samulski	University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill	67
#29	Brian Hargrove Leonard	Dell Products	66
#29	Jingjing Li	HP	66
#31	Jeffrey H. Derby	Bell Telephone Laboratories	64
#32	Frank L. Jania	IBM	63
#33	Richard E. Harper	IBM	62
#34	Perry A. Genova	Titan Medical	61
#35	Bin Xiao	Ledlenser Gmbh & Co. Kg	59
#36	Nathan Stasko	Novan	58
#36	Ying Shen	Aviat U.S.	58
#38	Edgar Yee	Eaton	56
#38	Jill Marie Sturdivant	Aerie Pharmaceuticals	56
#40	Robert A. Alfieri	NVIDIA	53
#41	Stephen L. Gwaltney	Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited	52
#41	Robert D. Black	Scion Neurostim	52
#41	Richard C. Boucher, Jr.	University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill	52
#41	John Michael Ramsey	University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill	52
#41	Edward T. Samulski	Carbon	52
#46	William C. Black	AMD	50
#47	Otto Z. Zhou	University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill	49
#47	Eric Douglas Romesburg	Valencell	49
#47	Andrei State	Inneroptic Technology	49
#47	Bastiaan Driehuys	Medi-Physics	49

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