Maryland — Patent Inventors 2005

Top Cities in Maryland 2005

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Baltimore, MD	298	225
#2	Rockville, MD	252	150
#3	Bethesda, MD	190	142
#4	Gaithersburg, MD	188	127
#5	Columbia, MD	150	106
#6	Ellicott City, MD	140	97
#7	Silver Spring, MD	127	93
#8	Potomac, MD	104	74
#9	Germantown, MD	100	58
#10	Frederick, MD	61	45
#11	Bel Air, MD	52	31
#12	Laurel, MD	45	35
#13	Severna Park, MD	41	29
#14	Annapolis, MD	34	31
#15	Timonium, MD	33	22
#16	Brookeville, MD	31	5
#17	North Potomac, MD	30	22
#18	Olney, MD	28	19
#19	Boyds, MD	28	9
#20	Seoul, MD	24	11
#21	Mount Airy, MD	23	20
#22	Clarksville, MD	23	14
#23	Owings Mills, MD	22	14
#24	Elkton, MD	21	16
#25	Towson, MD	20	14

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Valentina Di Francesco	Rockville	Applera	31
2	Steven Ruben	Brookeville	Human Genome Sciences	27
3	Chunhua Yan	Boyds	Applera	16
#4	Karen Ketchum	Germantown	Applera	15
#5	James Francis Shockley	Fort Washington	Quantum Engineering	9
#5	William K. Rhodes	Queenstown	Asgrow Seed Company	9
#5	Gennady Merkulov	Baltimore	Applera	9
#5	Ming-Hui Wei	Germantown	Applera	9
#9	Paul A. Moore	North Bethesda	Human Genome Sciences	8
#10	Henrik Olsen	Baltimore	Human Genome Sciences	7
#10	Dan Greene	Bethesda	Philips	7
#10	Robert P. Welsh	Phoenix	Black & Decker	7
#10	William E. McKinzie, III	Fulton	Blackberry Limited	7
#10	Stuart J. Wright	Timonium	Black & Decker	7
#15	Bing Chiang	Riverdale	Ipr Licensing	6
#15	Brian E. Le Gette	Severna Park	Kelsyus	6
#15	Norman G. Anderson	Rockville	Large Scale Proteomics	6
#15	Justin Saul Werner	Millersville	Kelsyus	6
#15	Seifollah S. Nanaji	Clarksville	Gilbarco	6
#15	Mark B. Johnson	Potomac	US Air Force	6
#15	Mustafa Eroz	Germantown	Hughes Network Systems	6
#15	Bijan Tadayon	Potomac	Contentguard Holdings	6
#15	Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko	Baldwin	Black & Decker	6
#15	Masayuki Nishimura	Columbia	Sumitomo Electric Industries	6
#25	Michael L. O'Banion	Westminster	Black & Decker	5