Maryland — Patent Inventors 2004

Top Cities in Maryland 2004

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Baltimore, MD	350	257
#2	Rockville, MD	251	152
#3	Gaithersburg, MD	217	149
#4	Bethesda, MD	216	162
#5	Columbia, MD	192	129
#6	Silver Spring, MD	152	118
#7	Ellicott City, MD	152	106
#8	Germantown, MD	128	74
#9	Potomac, MD	127	85
#10	Frederick, MD	85	57
#11	Bel Air, MD	56	35
#12	Laurel, MD	52	37
#13	Annapolis, MD	43	33
#14	Severna Park, MD	42	26
#15	Timonium, MD	40	28
#16	Olney, MD	39	26
#17	Cockeysville, MD	39	27
#18	Boyds, MD	37	7
#19	Elkton, MD	32	27
#20	Sykesville, MD	30	19
#21	Kensington, MD	28	19
#22	Crofton, MD	25	18
#23	Clarksville, MD	25	21
#24	Towson, MD	24	18
#25	Brookeville, MD	24	8

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Valentina Di Francesco	Rockville	Applera	36
2	Chunhua Yan	Boyds	Applera	20
3	Karen Ketchum	Germantown	Applera	18
#4	Steven Ruben	Brookeville	Human Genome Sciences	17
#4	Masayuki Nishimura	Columbia	Sumitomo Electric Industries	17
#6	Ming-Hui Wei	Germantown	Applera	15
#7	Jane Ye	Boyds	Applera	11
#8	Louise Sengupta	Ellicott City	Paratek Microwave	10
#9	Michael Joseph Gardner	Laurel	Sprint Communications	8
#10	Mark B. Johnson	Potomac	US Air Force	7
#10	Lawrence Jacobs	Rockville	Oracle	7
#10	Michael L. O'Banion	Westminster	Black & Decker	7
#10	Bert Vogelstein	Baltimore	The Johns Hopkins University	7
#10	Reinhard Ebner	Gaithersburg	Human Genome Sciences	7
#10	William M. Baldwin	Baltimore	Oracle	7
#16	Raymond W. Klecker	Silver Spring	US Dept of Health & Human Services	6
#16	Lawrence Anderson	Wheaton	US Dept of Health & Human Services	6
#16	William K. Rhodes	Queenstown	Asgrow Seed Company	6
#16	Gabriel E. Concari	Eldersburg	Black & Decker	6
#16	Martin MacPhee	Travilah	American National Red Cross	6
#16	Barry Paul Pershan	Olney	Verizon	6
#16	Warren A. Ceroll	Owings Mills	Black & Decker	6
#16	Daniel N. Lopano	Bel Air	Black & Decker	6
#16	Judy H. Huang	Baltimore	Applied Materials	6
#16	Kevin W. Covell	Parkton	Black & Decker	6