Top Inventors in Raleigh, NC | Patent Leaderboard

Raleigh, NC ranks #52 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 41,797 patents from 6,378 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Raleigh, NC include Lenovo (Singapore) Pte., IBM, X-Celeprint Limited. That works out to 89.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 6,378 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Russell Speight VanBlon	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	515
2	John M. Ganci, Jr.	IBM	481
3	Gary D. Cudak	—	314
#4	Daryl Cromer	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	298
#5	Arnold S. Weksler	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	248
#6	Christopher Bower	X-Celeprint Limited	223
#7	Aaron J. Quirk	IBM	216
#7	Jean Calvignac	IBM	216
#9	Christopher J. Hardee	IBM	208
#10	James P. Schneider	IBM	194
#11	Joseph W. Forbes, Jr.	Causam Energy	187
#12	Jana H. Jenkins	IBM	174
#13	Robert M. Walker	Micron	168
#14	Christopher P. Hussell	Cree	163
#15	Phillip H. Griffin	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	161
#16	Lydia M. Do	IBM	158
#17	Gonzalo Salgueiro	Cisco	149
#18	Todd E. Kaplinger	IBM	146
#19	Michael S. Siegel	IBM	142
#20	Steven Francis LeBoeuf	Valencell	140
#21	Richard J. Walsh	Qurio Holdings	137
#22	David Carroll Challener	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	134
#23	Rajaram Ramesh	—	133
#24	Mark Patrick Delaney	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	129
#25	David B. Lection	IBM	124
#26	John R. Hind	IBM	123
#27	Erik J. Burckart	IBM	118
#28	Thomas J. Smith	Tii Industries	114
#28	Robert Ernest Troxler	Troxler Electronic Laboratories	114
#30	Bantval J. Baliga	GE	112
#31	Michael Edward Aumer	Valencell	111
#32	Thomas Andrew Sartorius	Qualcomm	107
#33	Jonathan S. Lindsey	North Carolina State University	106
#34	James B. McClain	Micell Technologies	103
#34	Timothy Peter Stammers	Cisco	103
#36	Zakaryae Fathi	Immunolight	101
#37	Sanjay Sharma	Sprint Communications	99
#38	Theodore J. Mosler	Smiths Medical Asd	97
#39	Matthew Donofrio	Cree	95
#39	Laura Thiel	Lat Enterprises	95
#41	Robert James Norton, JR.	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	94
#42	Nathan Snell	Cree	93
#43	Yongcheng Li	IBM	90
#44	Randy A. Rendahl	IBM	89
#44	Gregory M. Evans	Qurio Holdings	89
#44	Jesse Colin Reiherzer	Cree	89
#47	LeRoy Dickson	Metrologic Instruments	86
#48	Samuel D. Griggs	Tipper Tie	85
#48	Luke D. Remis	—	85
#50	Aaron K. Shook	IBM	83

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