Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

New Bern, NC ranks #4,357 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 638 patents from 171 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in New Bern, NC include Vector Surgical, Bsh Bosch Und Siemens Hausgeräte Gmbh, Aylward Enterprises. That works out to 20.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 171 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael Phillips Vector Surgical 33
2 Matthew Ricket Bsh Bosch Und Siemens Hausgeräte Gmbh 30
3 John T. Aylward Aylward Enterprises 19
#4 Joachim Gruetzke Bsh Home Appliances 16
#5 Manfred Staebler Bsh Home Appliances 15
#5 George May Bsh Home Appliances 15
#7 Dale Hopkins HP 13
#7 Brooks M. Whitehurst Whitehurst Associates 13
#7 Lawrence M. Cotton Robert Bosch Power Tool 13
#7 Thomas G. Carter Enpress 13
#7 David Hite Bsh Hausgeräte Gmbh 13
#12 Ronald A. Pontiff 11
#12 Casey Carr Bsh Home Appliances 11
#12 James M. Smithwick, Jr. Container Graphics 11
#12 Richard Boyd Joy Global Underground Mining 11
#16 Temple Chadwick Bsh Home Appliances 10
#16 Garnett B. Whitehurst Whitehurst Associates 10
#16 David Dysinger Bsh Home Appliances 10
#16 Ashwin Jadhav Electrolux Home Products 10
#20 Yin-Fu Chang Ciba-Geigy 9
#20 Matthew Richards Bsh Hausgeräte Gmbh 9
#22 Darren Scott Quinn E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 8
#22 Charles Weimer International Paper 8
#24 Jeff Vogus Bsh Home Appliances 7
#24 Thomas J. McKnight Nike 7
#26 Brandon Kornegay Bsh Home Appliances 6
#26 James Gayle Bsh Home Appliances 6
#26 Mary Hathcock S-B Power Tool 6
#26 Thomas F. McGraw 6
#26 Phillip Montanye Bsh Home Appliances 6
#26 Oliver Schöne Bsh Home Appliances 6
#26 Tiffany E. Ingersoll Bsh Home Appliances 6
#26 Brian Tomlinson Aylward Enterprises 6
#26 Kevin W. Sherbert Bsh Home Appliances 6
#35 David K. Liland 5
#35 John R. Coffey S-B Power Tool 5
#35 David W. Moldenhauer 5
#35 Mark Wood Bsh Home Appliances 5
#35 Gregory Fockler Diebold Self-Service Systems, Division Of Diebold, Incorporated 5
#35 Mia Criner Bsh Hausgeräte Gmbh 5
#41 George Savitz Bsh Home Appliances 4
#41 Bryan Ray Roark Corning Optical Communications Wireless 4
#41 Rolf Schuck Bsh Home Appliances 4
#41 William D. DiMartino Tandemloc 4
#41 John Griffin Moen Incorporated 4
#41 Glenn Lyle Spain Brunswick 4
#41 James M. Hodges Uop 4
#41 Jon Bendicksen Synopsys 4
#41 Georg Hechtl Bsh Bosch Und Siemens Hausgeräte Gmbh 4
#41 George H. Blaisdell Allied Logic 4

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