Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Exeter, NH ranks #2,405 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,302 patents from 228 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Exeter, NH include Contour Semiconductor, Neurologica, Juliet Marine Systems. That works out to 128.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 228 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Daniel R. Shepard Contour Semiconductor 88
2 Eric M. Bailey Neurologica 52
3 Gregory E. Sancoff Juliet Marine Systems 47
#4 Raymond F. Tonkel The Rockport Company 46
#5 Scott A. Leonard Deka Products Limited Parternship 41
#6 Karl D. Brommer Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 36
#7 Christopher Spater Radio Systems 31
#7 Lewis Illingworth Vortex 31
#9 Robert J. Gyurik Cpex Pharmaceutical 30
#10 Kenton D. Geer Hyde Athletic Industries 21
#11 Edward T. Powers Haemonetics 19
#11 Jason Knight Sig Sauer 19
#11 Frank Patterson C.R. Bard 19
#14 Timothy A. Antaya MIT 17
#15 Luke Gray Babcock & Wilcox Canada 16
#16 Stuart D. Howkins ExxonMobil 15
#16 Jeffrey Armstrong Ener-Core Power 15
#18 Guohua Min Position Imaging 14
#18 Louis M. Spoto Illinois Tool Works 14
#18 David F. Bednarek Deka Products Limited Parternship 14
#18 James S. Shaw GE 14
#18 Francis J. Stifter Broadbus Technologies 14
#18 Christopher David Westra Avegant 14
#18 Jeffrey W. Morin Liteboxer Technologies 14
#25 Dieter Theodor Ebert Goss International Americas 13
#25 John MacMahon Fox Hollow Technologies 13
#25 Benjamin Sloan Lg Energy Solution 13
#25 Robert Hirt Sig Sauer 13
#29 Jeffrey William Holt Osram Sylvania 12
#29 Julian Wray West Fuze 12
#29 David William Dewis Elliott Energy Systems 12
#32 Christopher R. McLarnon Powerspan 11
#32 David B. Hopkins Sig Sauer 11
#32 Martin Choquette Analogic 11
#35 Alyssa Torjesen Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 10
#35 Charles E. Frost Gte Products 10
#35 Roger G. Massey Parker And Harper Manufacturing Company 10
#35 Gary Bullard Custom Medical Applications 10
#39 Jonathan B. Arold Gte Products 9
#39 John F. Kelso Osram Sylvania 9
#39 Richard A. Belcher Gould 9
#39 David F. Gallup Baverican 9
#39 Fred Ramberg Bottomline Technologies 9
#44 Matthew Dworman 8
#44 Patrick A. Bosa Extreme Networks 8
#44 Fred A. Wentworth, Jr. 8
#44 Jesse Leonard Farris, III Boston Scientific Scimed 8
#44 Yash Patel Amazon 8
#44 Richard T. Lilly Eli Lilly 8
#50 Tracey H. Brommer Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 7

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