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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mount Airy, NC ranks #18,134 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 78 patents from 32 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mount Airy, NC include Granite Tactical Vehicles, Renfro, Grass America. That works out to 7.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–32 of 32 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ralph Sykes Martin 24
2 Christopher Berman Granite Tactical Vehicles 8
3 Dustin Bledsoe 4
#4 Cindy Dickson Renfro 3
#4 Christopher Blane BOWMAN Grass America 3
#4 Douglas Roy Porter The L.S. Starrett 3
#4 Elijah Marshall Combs Engineered Controls International 3
#4 Todd H. Greenwood 3
#9 Charles McMillan 2
#9 Robert E. Merritt Renfro 2
#9 Ralph Martin Commscope Technologies 2
#12 Albert Lara 1
#12 Kenneth M. Leftwich 1
#12 Roger L. Pyle 1
#12 Richard S. Wimbish 1
#12 Roger Hess 1
#12 Calvin H. Besore 1
#12 Gabrielle Levac 1
#12 Charles J. Wampler, deceased 1
#12 Bartholomew S. Pharr Marketon 1
#12 Randy Paul McCraw 1
#12 Richard T. Simmons Renfro 1
#12 George M. Bowman Renfro 1
#12 Harold L. Stone 1
#12 Gregory Scott Isaacs Imageworks Display And Marketing Group 1
#12 John K. Hollingsworth Eastman Kodak 1
#12 Jerry A. Adams 1
#12 Charles Reddell R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 1
#12 Byron Scott Bailey, Sr. Huntsman International 1
#12 Danny Todd Sheaffer 1
#12 Liam O'Donnell 1
#12 Meighan O'Donnell 1

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