Maryland — Patent Inventors 2003

Top Cities in Maryland 2003

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Baltimore, MD	337	244
#2	Rockville, MD	252	153
#3	Gaithersburg, MD	236	137
#4	Bethesda, MD	198	151
#5	Columbia, MD	196	130
#6	Silver Spring, MD	158	111
#7	Ellicott City, MD	156	104
#8	Potomac, MD	127	82
#9	Frederick, MD	107	68
#10	Germantown, MD	104	63
#11	Laurel, MD	63	38
#12	Annapolis, MD	62	40
#13	Bel Air, MD	61	35
#14	Cockeysville, MD	43	20
#15	Severna Park, MD	41	25
#16	Brookeville, MD	41	9
#17	Timonium, MD	40	30
#18	Boyds, MD	39	12
#19	Olney, MD	38	21
#20	North Potomac, MD	32	15
#21	Elkton, MD	31	23
#22	Edgewood, MD	28	22
#23	Catonsville, MD	26	22
#24	Towson, MD	26	15
#25	Phoenix, MD	25	10

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Steven Ruben	Brookeville	Human Genome Sciences	31
1	Valentina Di Francesco	Rockville	Applera	31
3	Chunhua Yan	Boyds	Applera	19
#4	Masayuki Nishimura	Columbia	Sumitomo Electric Industries	15
#5	Robert P. Welsh	Phoenix	Black & Decker	14
#5	Sandra E. Wassink	Frederick	Advancis Pharmaceutical	14
#5	Donald Treacy	Annapolis	Advancis Pharmaceutical	14
#5	Karen Ketchum	Germantown	Applera	14
#9	Vladimir A. Dmitriev	Gaithersburg	Technologies And Devices International	13
#10	James D. Isbister	Potomac	Advancis Pharmaceutical	12
#11	Michael D. Jensen	Laurel	Chevron	11
#11	Mark D. Adams	North Potomac	Human Genome Sciences	11
#13	Imre Kovesdi	Rockville	Genvec	10
#13	Ying-Fei Wei	Travilah	Human Genome Sciences	10
#13	Ming-Hui Wei	Germantown	Applera	10
#13	Keith Kang	Ellicott City	Xanoptix	10
#13	Henrik Olsen	Baltimore	Human Genome Sciences	10
#13	Richard T. Walter	Baldwin	Black & Decker	10
#13	Reinhard Ebner	Gaithersburg	Human Genome Sciences	10
#20	Weston J. Van Wambeke	Severna Park	Black & Decker	9
#21	James L. Martin	Gambrills	Serio-Us Industries	8
#21	Gregory Scott Snider	Bel Air	Black & Decker	8
#21	Michael Joseph Gardner	Laurel	Sprint Communications	8
#21	Jane Ye	Boyds	Applera	8
#21	Robert C. Gallo	Bethesda	US Dept of Health & Human Services	8