Top Inventors in Wake Forest, NC

Wake Forest, NC ranks #884 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 3,751 patents from 596 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wake Forest, NC include Broadcom, Eastman Kodak, IBM. That works out to 78.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 596 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	John A. Gelardi	—	130
2	Thomas J. Quigley	Broadcom	126
3	Gerard James Hayes	—	103
#4	John C. Morris	Eastman Kodak	100
#5	Andrew J. Ivory	IBM	95
#6	John J. Shea	Eaton	83
#7	Thomas Philip Speier	Qualcomm	65
#8	J. Mark Weber	—	54
#9	Patrick R. Brown	NVIDIA	53
#10	Joseph Anthony Holung	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	52
#11	David Stone	Infoprint Solutions Company	48
#12	Robert T. Jacobs	Zeneca Limited	45
#13	Jones M. Hyman	Biomerieux	41
#13	John Wilson	Rambus	41
#15	Mitchell J. Palmer	United States Surgical	40
#15	Gary F. Diamanti	IBM	40
#17	Douglas P. Taylor	Tayco Developments	38
#17	Ronald A. Smith	IBM	38
#19	Daniel Stephen Gardiner	Protochips	36
#20	Joshua Neil Novak	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	34
#21	Yeshwant Nagaraj Kolla	Qualcomm	33
#22	Charles Curtiss Hunt	Sony	32
#23	Terry Simpson	Kidde Technologies	31
#24	Harry Chmielewski	Paragon Trade Brands	30
#24	Suzanne Marion Beaumont	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	30
#26	David Hunt	American Cyanamid	29
#27	John M. Weber	—	28
#28	Guillermo Coward-Kelly	—	27
#28	Larry R. Metzger	Cisco	27
#28	Eugene Irving Kelton	IBM	27
#31	Randall Deinhammer	Novozymes A/S	26
#32	Randolph Cary Demuynck	Sony	25
#33	Jerrod K. Buterbaugh	IBM	23
#34	Charles Douglas Taylor	Micell Technologies	22
#35	Katherine Glasgow	Sabic Innovative Plastics B.V.	21
#36	Todd Eichler	Tekelec	20
#36	Mark Alan Siver	360° Ballistics	20
#36	Scott Brown	Schneider Electric Usa	20
#39	Stephen H. Hancock	Flextronics Ap	19
#39	Dyson Hickingbotham	Alcon	19
#39	Robert Brian Likovich, Jr.	IBM	19
#42	Xinyu Shen	Novozymes A/S	18
#42	Jonathan Marc Bell	Unknown	18
#42	Andrew Lees	Centre Firearms Co.	18
#45	Stephanie L. Trunzo	IBM	17
#45	Michael S. Ryan	Salco Products	17
#47	Sean C. Kelly	Eastman Kodak	16
#47	Pasi Taimela	Flexgen Power Systems	16
#47	Daniel L. Kennedy	BOE	16
#47	Thomas K. Jacobsen	Rockwell Automation	16

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