Maryland — Patent Inventors 2002

Top Cities in Maryland 2002

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Baltimore, MD	392	259
#2	Rockville, MD	244	133
#3	Gaithersburg, MD	236	143
#4	Bethesda, MD	214	167
#5	Silver Spring, MD	174	126
#6	Columbia, MD	169	108
#7	Ellicott City, MD	151	99
#8	Germantown, MD	130	64
#9	Potomac, MD	121	77
#10	Frederick, MD	77	65
#11	Bel Air, MD	61	36
#12	Timonium, MD	58	35
#13	Laurel, MD	56	36
#14	Boyds, MD	56	8
#15	Severna Park, MD	54	30
#16	North Potomac, MD	49	18
#17	Cockeysville, MD	44	30
#18	Brookeville, MD	39	8
#19	Elkton, MD	36	27
#20	Annapolis, MD	35	31
#21	Mount Airy, MD	32	12
#22	Westminster, MD	32	16
#23	College Park, MD	31	25
#24	Olney, MD	30	20
#25	Kensington, MD	29	25

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Valentina Di Francesco	Rockville	Applera	44
2	Steven Ruben	Brookeville	Human Genome Sciences	30
3	Karen Ketchum	Germantown	Applera	23
#4	Jee Loon Look	Boyds	Amerimas Home Products	21
#5	Chunhua Yan	Boyds	Applera	19
#6	Ming-Hui Wei	Germantown	Applera	16
#7	Mark D. Adams	North Potomac	Human Genome Sciences	14
#8	Joseph P. Steiner	Mount Airy	Gpi Nil Holdings	13
#8	Michael L. O'Banion	Westminster	Black & Decker	13
#10	Bert Vogelstein	Baltimore	The Johns Hopkins University	12
#10	Ying-Fei Wei	Travilah	Human Genome Sciences	12
#10	Charles Chang	Columbia	Unknown	12
#13	Kenneth W. Kinzler	Baltimore	The Johns Hopkins University	11
#13	Gregory Scott Snider	Bel Air	Black & Decker	11
#13	Henrik Olsen	Baltimore	Human Genome Sciences	11
#16	Gerald P. Skalka	Potomac	Victor Stanley	10
#16	Reinhard Ebner	Gaithersburg	Human Genome Sciences	10
#16	Masayuki Nishimura	Columbia	Sumitomo Electric Industries	10
#16	Barbara Slusher	Kingsville	Guilford Pharmaceuticals	10
#16	Jane Ye	Boyds	Applera	10
#16	Imre Kovesdi	Rockville	Genvec	10
#16	Syed Sajid Ahmad	Lanham	Micron	10
#16	Norman G. Anderson	Rockville	Large Scale Proteomics	10
#24	Brian E. Le Gette	Severna Park	Kelsyus	9
#24	Ernest H. Braue, Jr.	Whiteford	US Army	9