Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mebane, NC ranks #5,749 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 443 patents from 106 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mebane, NC include Duke University, Biocon, Honda Motor Co.. That works out to 24.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 106 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Darell Bigner Duke University 55
2 Kenneth D. James Biocon 22
3 Christopher W. Vaughn Honda Motor Co. 21
#4 James L. Ng Cisco 20
#5 Brian Bender Rite-Hite Holding 19
#6 Gilbert Soares GE 16
#7 Jeffrey A. Wians Honda Motor Co. 12
#8 Steven C. Jacobson 11
#9 Jason Howard Cornpropst IBM 10
#9 John Joseph Struble, Jr. GE 10
#11 David C. Sokal Family Health International 9
#11 William P. Stewart Emerson Electric 9
#13 Nathan Otterness NVIDIA 8
#14 John Moran Emc Ip Holding Company 7
#14 Russell Dudley Wooten Newell Window Furnishings 7
#14 Ethan A. Geyer IBM 7
#17 Ronald D. Sauers Borland Software 6
#17 Robert C. Harris Bloom Energy 6
#17 Christopher Michael Shuford Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings 6
#17 Claude L. Hughes, Jr. Wake Forest University 6
#17 Henry Arnette Textron 6
#17 Thomas L. Ortel Duke University 6
#23 Jeff Hatley Rgb Systems 5
#23 Richard C. Emerson Egs Electrical Group 5
#23 Meghan Norris Bradley Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings 5
#23 Robert A. Recher Honda Motor Co. 5
#23 Robert L. Cheek Tripath Imaging 5
#23 Robert Bruce Wallace GE 5
#23 Rayvonn Donnell Core Troxler Electronic Laboratories 5
#30 Matthew Lee Francis Crawford Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings 4
#30 Robert Charles Earhart Glen Raven 4
#30 Michael Ray Bryant GE 4
#30 Edward D. Mazurek Cisco 4
#30 James W. Hamilton, Jr. GE 4
#30 Jeff A. Wians Honda Motor Co. 4
#30 Eddie W. Scott Collins & Aikman 4
#30 W. Eric Hinshaw Kingsdown 4
#38 Elwood Combs GE 3
#38 Nancy W. Sella Fieldcrest Mills 3
#38 Kingsley Nelson Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery 3
#38 Robert Whitehead Buckingham Manufacturing Company 3
#38 FABIAN REDDIG Whitestar Communications 3
#43 Randal T. Fox Nortel Networks Limited 2
#43 A. Michael Wade Cytos Pharmaceuticals 2
#43 Ronnie L. Jones Motion Computing 2
#43 Samantha Gail Pattenden University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 2
#43 Ashley TRIMPEY Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions 2
#43 Jeffery A. Konecke Inverness Medical Switzerland Gmbh 2
#43 Timothy Freeze 2
#43 George B. Graus Honda Motor Co. 2

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