Top Inventors in Durham, NC | Patent Leaderboard

Durham, NC ranks #105 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 24,810 patents from 4,103 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Durham, NC include IBM, Intellectual Ventures, X-Celeprint Limited. That works out to 87.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 4,103 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Ruthie D. Lyle	IBM	320
2	David R. Smith	Intellectual Ventures	242
3	Matthew Meitl	X-Celeprint Limited	215
#4	Anant Agarwal	Cree	189
#5	John Edmond	Cree	181
#6	Sidney D. Fleischman	Ep Technologies	156
#7	Peter Scott Andrews	Cree	154
#8	David T. Emerson	Cree	147
#9	Charles S. Lingafelt	IBM	142
#10	Mark F. Oldham	Applied Biosystems	136
#11	Robert James Kapinos	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	135
#12	Robert C. Williams, Jr.	Nike	130
#13	Mark Charles Davis	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	109
#14	Jesse Gilsinger	Monsanto Technology	107
#15	Edward S. Suffern	IBM	104
#16	Vamsee K. Pamula	Advanced Liquid Logic	100
#16	Philip John Jakes	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	100
#18	Eric Woods	IBM	99
#19	Fred Allison Bower, III	—	97
#19	Michael G. Pollack	Advanced Liquid Logic	97
#21	John R. Gilbert	Cytonome/St	92
#22	William G. Pagan	IBM	89
#23	Joseph A. Izatt	Duke University	88
#24	Barton F. Haynes	Duke University	85
#25	John H. Hebrank	Embrex	84
#26	Gennaro A. Cuomo	IBM	82
#27	William J. Hoekstra	Viamet Pharmaceuticals	81
#27	David B. Slater, Jr.	Cree	81
#29	Jian Zhang	Zte	79
#30	Lawrence M. Boyd	Sdgi	77
#31	William J. Brown	Bioptigen	76
#31	Ikenna Odinaka	Kepler Computing	76
#33	Stephen M. Grenon	Tearscience	75
#34	Tuan Vo-Dinh	Duke University	74
#35	Scott Curtis	Waldeck Technology	73
#36	Lindsay Roberson	Bsh Home Appliances	70
#36	Thomas H. Fischer	Delphi Technologies	70
#38	Kam W. Leong	The Johns Hopkins University	69
#39	David John Steiner	Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions	68
#40	Etienne Menard	University Of Illinois	67
#41	Ashutosh Chilkoti	Duke University	66
#42	John W. Wilson	Axon Enterprise	64
#43	John M. Wilson	Kohler	62
#43	James DeYoung	Micell Technologies	62
#43	David Jones Brady	Duke University	62
#46	Stephen C. Hess	Winston Furniture Company Of Alabama	61
#47	Miles A. de Forest	Emc	60
#48	Bradley T. Estes	Warsaw Orthopedic	56
#48	Derek Jantz	Precision Biosciences	56
#48	John Scott Crowe	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	56

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