Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pittsboro, NC ranks #1,754 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,894 patents from 154 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pittsboro, NC include Cisco, Halliburton Energy Services, Tipper Tie. That works out to 417.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 154 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Paul W. Dent 417
2 Jerome Henry Cisco 390
3 Robert P. Freese Halliburton Energy Services 104
#4 Dennis J. May Tipper Tie 100
#5 Richard R. Tidwell University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 69
#6 Richard Wayne Cheston Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 50
#7 Curtis W. Thornton 42
#8 Alexander Ermoshkin Carbon 40
#9 Marcia L. Peters IBM 39
#10 Matthew P. Daniels Parata Systems 30
#11 Andrea Francini Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy 29
#12 J. Turner Whitted Microsoft 23
#13 Thomas G. Coleman Cree 22
#13 Michael Barnett Microsoft 22
#15 Gary P. Fugitt 20
#16 Warren D. Bailey IBM 19
#17 William S. Adney Midwest Research Institute 17
#17 Scott H. Goodwin-Johansson Mcnc 17
#19 Peter James Brittenham IBM 16
#19 Laura Cooper Schouten Athenix 16
#21 Paul Wilhelm Schnur Asensus Surgical Us 15
#22 David M. Girardeau Hill-Rom Services 13
#23 Joyce Craig Novozymes A/S 12
#23 Roscoe M. Farrell Kayser-Roth Hosiery 12
#25 Brett Pantalone Sony 11
#25 Dylan Wilson Becton, Dickinson And 11
#25 Robert Schmidt Daimlerchrysler Ag 11
#28 Rocky D. McMahan IBM 10
#28 Juan A. Pons Lemi Technology 10
#28 Daniel R. Spach IBM 10
#31 Ronald E. Craig IBM 9
#31 Clark D. Klein Basf Se 9
#33 Jason M. Wicker IBM 8
#34 Russell Morton Taylor, II University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 7
#35 William Laurence Jaeger 6
#35 Kyle Indukummar Giesen IBM 6
#35 Donna Stewart 6
#35 Gennadiy Albul 6
#35 Rachel Anita Burton Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty 6
#35 Stephen Charles Graf Sop Services 6
#35 John F. Myles, III 6
#42 Richard Witmeyer Interface Biologics 5
#42 John J. Jachetta Dowelanco 5
#42 William Dudley Moore, III Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company, Incorporated 5
#42 John Rice Paradigm Genetics 5
#42 Donald B. Shuping Industrial Microwave Systems, L.L.C. 5
#42 Brent J. Ackermann Abb Technology Ag 5
#42 Howard Nordby Cree 5
#42 Michael G. Evans Glaxo Group Limited 5
#50 David James Wheaton Sas Institute 4

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