Top Cities in North Carolina All Time

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 Raleigh, NC 41,481 6,378
#2 Cary, NC 29,028 3,681
#3 Durham, NC 24,583 4,103
#4 Charlotte, NC 21,596 4,868
#5 Chapel Hill, NC 14,954 1,999
#6 Apex, NC 10,115 1,394
#7 Winston-Salem, NC 7,271 1,346
#8 Morrisville, NC 7,160 952
#9 Greensboro, NC 6,206 1,557
#10 Hickory, NC 4,222 547
#11 Wake Forest, NC 3,729 596
#12 Wilmington, NC 3,529 905
#13 Huntersville, NC 2,517 456
#14 High Point, NC 2,438 422
#15 Holly Springs, NC 2,199 335
#16 Asheville, NC 2,158 539
#17 Mooresville, NC 1,954 371
#18 Fuquay-Varina, NC 1,930 309
#19 Matthews, NC 1,876 379
#20 Pittsboro, NC 1,859 154
#21 Kernersville, NC 1,659 355
#22 Clemmons, NC 1,652 260
#23 Waxhaw, NC 1,628 302
#24 Concord, NC 1,611 366
#25 Greenville, NC 1,336 364

Top Inventors in North Carolina All Time

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Russell Speight VanBlon Raleigh Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 509
2 Brian M. O'Connell Cary IBM 496
3 John M. Ganci, Jr. Raleigh IBM 481
#4 Martin G. Keen Cary IBM 441
#5 Paul W. Dent Pittsboro 414
#6 Nathan J. Peterson Oxford Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 385
#7 Aaron K. Baughman Cary IBM 374
#8 Jerome Henry Pittsboro Cisco 365
#9 Corville O. Allen Morrisville IBM 349
#10 Carlos M. Pignataro Cary Cisco 333
#11 Ruthie D. Lyle Durham IBM 317
#12 Gary D. Cudak Raleigh 311
#13 Daryl Cromer Raleigh Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 296
#14 John Carl Mese Cary Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 289
#15 Howard Locker Cary Lenovo (United States) 287
#16 Al Chakra Apex IBM 283
#17 Gerald H. Negley Chapel Hill Cree 262
#18 Tianyi Gao Kirkwood Baidu Usa 259
#19 Arnold S. Weksler Raleigh Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 246
#20 David R. Smith Durham Elwha 242
#21 Nagendra Kumar Nainar Morrisville Cisco 231
#22 Rod D. Waltermann Red Mountain Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 230
#23 Peter D. Karabinis Cary Atc Technologies 227
#24 Christopher Bower Raleigh X-Celeprint Limited 222
#25 James G. Whayne Cary Ep Technologies 221

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