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Matthews, NC All Time

1,896 patents  ·  379 inventors  ·  64.4/1k pop.

Ranked #1,752 of 112,640 cities Top 2%

Matthews, NC ranks #1,752 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,896 patents from 379 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Matthews, NC include Cem, IBM, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. That works out to 64.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 379 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael J. Collins Cem 129
2 Mark Cameron Little IBM 73
3 Pierre Arbajian Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 52
3 Kurt D. Newman Bank of America 52
#5 Brian V. Conti Checkpoint Systems 48
#6 Robert D. Smith Scandpower 43
#7 Jeffrey S. Dugan Basf Se 42
#8 Wyatt Price Hargett, Jr. Cem 41
#9 Lie Shi Celgard 35
#10 Ronald Carter 1Ahead Technologies 29
#10 Geraldo Nojima Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 29
#10 Li H. Liu Shop Vac 29
#13 Robert Joseph Schiavone Wellman 27
#13 Chad Dustin Tillman Nxp Aeronautics Research 27
#15 Ronald Carter Eyetalk365 26
#16 Michael Lane Smith, Jr. Sandia 23
#17 Yaorong Ge Wake Forest University Health Sciences 22
#18 Olga Kocharyan Bank of America 21
#19 William P. Jacobson Bank of America 20
#20 Daniel Lynn Carpenter Bank of America 19
#20 Cynthia L. Bowen Kidkusion 19
#22 Daniel S. Sumner Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 17
#23 Kelly Griffin Altman Specialty Plants 16
#23 Dustin Paul Stocks Bank of America 16
#25 Mark Ezzo Checkpoint Systems 15
#25 James M. Williams Motorola 15
#25 Kevin J. Ahearn Hand Held Products 15
#28 Thomas A. Luther Battelle Energy Alliance 14
#28 Glenn Grossman Bank of America 14
#28 Alan C. Handermann Basf Se 14
#28 Eric Youngblood Hand Held Products 14
#32 Richard May Icap Services North America 12
#33 Walter R. Harfmann Genpak 11
#33 An H. Nguyen Isensecloud 11
#33 Paul J. Yancey Rodel Holdings 11
#33 Etheridge Odell Oakley, Jr. Hoechst Celanese 11
#33 Steve A. Cash Nexus Medical 11
#33 Larry Alexander Polen Cyril Bath 11
#33 Vijayan Nair Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 11
#40 Sridhar G. Iyer Basf Se 10
#40 Vishwas Korde Bank of America 10
#40 Shane Cross Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 10
#40 Bobby L. Hodge Ina Bearing Company 10
#44 Kenneth R. Willis Cadence Design Systems 9
#44 Amy Elizabeth Quiring Scott Technologies 9
#44 Walter Lee Bowen Kidkusion 9
#44 Christian Matthew Yungbluth Middleby Marshall 9
#44 Norman S. Anderson Hoechst Celanese 9
#49 William W. Plyler IBM 8
#49 Nicholas Alan Kraft Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 8

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