Top Inventors in Smithfield, NC | Patent Leaderboard

Smithfield, NC ranks #12,190 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 148 patents from 57 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Smithfield, NC include IBM, Unknown, Specifi-Kali. That works out to 13.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 57 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Ivan M. Heninger	IBM	21
2	Raymond F. Lippitt	Unknown	16
3	Robert W. Holland	Specifi-Kali	12
#4	William Daniel Ordway, Jr.	IBM	7
#5	Robert G. Lippitt	Unknown	6
#6	Leon A. Frazier	Cisco	5
#7	Gursharan P. S. Nat	Eaton	4
#7	Steve Ramos	Xerox	4
#9	Tony MOORE	—	3
#9	Eddie Hargis	Focal Point Products	3
#9	John W. Stearley	Eaton	3
#9	Ernest L. Elmore	Fieldcrest Mills	3
#9	Peter Medicks	—	3
#9	L. Lamar Armstrong	—	3
#9	Woody D. Wood	Bayer Healthcare	3
#9	Aaron Medford	Republic Wireless	3
#9	Fred H. Earp	Grifols Therapeutics	3
#18	William T. Pierce	Pergo Ag	2
#18	Kelly A. Revels	AT&T	2
#18	J. Larry Gates	—	2
#18	Jerry L. CORBETT	Adama Makhteshim	2
#18	Gary Steven Arnold	—	2
#18	Ronald J. Wilkins	—	2
#24	Ronald L. Boster	Channel Master	1
#24	Durwood D. Woodall	—	1
#24	Gerry Callahan	Pentair Water Pool And Spa	1
#24	Michael Gibbons	Caterpillar	1
#24	Chadwick B. Hogg	—	1
#24	Kathy Mast	—	1
#24	Robert A. Busby	Eaton	1
#24	Jesse H. Holloman	Unknown	1
#24	Keith Baumbaugh	—	1
#24	Debra Kay Hoh	—	1
#24	John Baier	Global Invacom Limited	1
#24	Benjamin F. Grady, Jr.	Unknown	1
#24	Robert A. Borsos	Eaton	1
#24	Chaorong Peng	Unknown	1
#24	David Lee Postlethwait	—	1
#24	Charles E. Parrish	—	1
#24	Ervin Harris	—	1
#24	Aaron Dickens Meares	—	1
#24	Brent Myron Booker	—	1
#24	Herman I. Creech	Eaton	1
#24	Edwin Hill	—	1
#24	Leonardus J. Josemans	Eaton	1
#24	Alfred Z. Moore	—	1
#24	Thomas L. McNeill	—	1
#24	Kenneth W. Briel	—	1
#24	Chadwick Boyd Harris	—	1
#24	Raymond Perry	—	1

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