These are patents developed by Craven County residents:
- Barbour, Herbert W. (1927) – ratchet drill
- Blades, Charles G. (1905) – lumber measurer, marker & recorder
- Bradham, Carol D. (1906) – shipping tag
- Brothers, James T. (1940) – board game
- Burdick, J.D. (1860) – operating the slats of window-blinds
- Cole, Noel S. (1917) – seed-saving attachment for mowers
- Daniels, Oscar C. (1941) – tonsillotome
- Dill, Richard S. (1944) – warm air furnace
- Dixon, Phillip A. (1925) – ball cock
- Duffy, Donald (1989) – method of manufacturing a tool (developed in conjunction with Sellers Hardee, Wayne Smith, James Elliott, Robert Gardner, & Clause Seuss)
- Gaskill, Elijah T. (1899) – mattress-stitching machine
- Honrine, Jack (1938) – photoengraving camera
- Ives, James F. (1917) – lock
- Johnson, Julius P. (1946) – carriage chuck & boring bar
- Jones, James Samuel (1903) – brace for buggy-seat supports
- McKinnon, Daniel G. (1926) – pad for artificial teeth
- Newby Jr., General T. (1922) – cultivator
- Perkins, Orlandow S. (1902) – log-car stake holder
- Perkins, Orlandow S. (1903) – combined broom-holder, clothes-rack, & towel-hanger
- Phillips, Grover C. (1950) – bookcase
- Smith, Leighal Augusta (1897) – wrench
- Smith, William Thomas (1941) – grinding machine
- Sparling, Sylvester (1954) – ship’s propeller & impeller proper
- Taylor, Lee J. (1925) – design for a bottle
- Woodard Jr., Roland L. (1977) – golf yardage indicator system (developed in conjunction with Joseph Jones & Stephen L. Pang)
Contributed by Taneya Koonce, March 2010