Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Durham, NH ranks #3,688 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 796 patents from 153 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Durham, NH include Arthrosurface Incorporated, Amphenol, Verseon. That works out to 71.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 153 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Steven W. Ek Arthrosurface Incorporated 142
2 Marc B. Cartier, Jr. Amphenol 94
3 Kevin M. Short Verseon 33
#4 Gerrit Townsend Zwart Mevion Medical Systems 26
#5 Michael E. McClurken Salient Surgical Technologies 25
#6 Louis S. Farkas, III Alis 24
#7 Yvon Durant Itaconix 19
#8 Kyo C. Jin Medtronic 16
#9 F. William Hersman University Of New Hempshire 13
#10 Heiner Luxem Heidelberg Druckmaschinen 12
#10 Michael Glover Lauren Maufacturing 12
#12 Michael P. McConnell Talus 11
#12 William Cashman Bottomline Technologies 11
#14 Vincent John Macri 10
#14 Valentin T. Jordanov Canberra Industries 10
#16 Peter A. Weller Davidson Textron 9
#16 Charles H. Bianchi Adc Telecommunications 9
#16 Augustus Percival Lowell Triple Ring Technologies 9
#16 Michael Skubisz Cabletron Systems 9
#20 David Alden Jaques Gn Audio A/S 8
#21 Marie J. Hersman Davidson Textron 7
#21 Daniel Mills Davidson Textron 7
#21 Mojtaba Bisheh Niasar Microsoft 7
#21 Jerry V. Scrivo Excello Co. 7
#25 Charles Andrew Waters Aclara Technologies 6
#25 Stephen Burns Aegis Industries 6
#25 Anna Regan Natowich McPhee Tbl Licensing 6
#25 Marian G. McCord North Carolina State University 6
#25 Yaning Li University Of New Hempshire 6
#25 Charles K. Taft Aro 6
#31 Neil Slepian Hyde Athletic Industries 5
#31 Louise H. Foley Hoffmann-La Roche 5
#31 Timothy J. Harned Parker-Hannifin 5
#31 Benjamin Michael Jenkins Form Energy 5
#31 Mengtian Li Shandong University 5
#31 Stephen Franklin Heidelberg Druckmaschinen 5
#37 Gullmar V. Nelson Davidson Textron 4
#37 Mathieu Chirat University Of New Hempshire 4
#37 Robert M. Califf Duke University 4
#37 Jeffrey M. Halpern University Of New Hempshire 4
#37 Charles Poole The Timberland 4
#37 Thomas Laue Karlsruher Institut Für Technologie 4
#37 Peter James Cashmore Smith & Nephew 4
#37 Garrett Malagodi Twin Harbor Labs 4
#37 Charles R. Parent Gte Products 4
#46 Gerard L. Buteau Chaossearch 3
#46 Mahdi H. Al-Badrawi University Of New Hempshire 3
#46 Radim Bartos 3
#46 John Raymond Hawley GE 3
#46 Matthew Jon Wingate Heidelberg Druckmaschinen 3

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