Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Annapolis, MD ranks #1,732 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 71 patents from 45 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Annapolis, MD include Telecommunication Systems, Google, Rockwell Collins. That works out to 1.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–45 of 45 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Keith A. McFarland Telecommunication Systems 6
2 Jason Adam Denise Google 5
3 James Gary Cooper, Jr. Rockwell Collins 4
#4 Brian Hagenbuch Pivotal Software 3
#4 William George Doyen Rockwell Collins 3
#6 Patrick W. Dowd US NSA 2
#6 Daniel Hronek Telecommunication Systems 2
#6 Erik Wallace Telecommunication Systems 2
#6 Vincent Jacob Kalish Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals 2
#6 Herbert Estrada Cameron International 2
#6 Charles Hart Isaacs Salesforce 2
#6 Walter Weichselbaumer Telecommunication Systems 2
#6 Joseph Pohutsky Telecommunication Systems 2
#6 Vineet Sachdev Trueposition 2
#6 Paul Reed Smith Paul Reed Smith Guitars, Limited Partnership 2
#16 David Ralph Kimball L-3 Communications 1
#16 Frank Bosmans The Johns Hopkins University 1
#16 Graham P. Eatwell Noise Cancellation Technologies 1
#16 Steven Mitchell University of Colorado 1
#16 Sameer Joshi Orbis Technologies 1
#16 William E. Bentley University Of Maryland, College Park 1
#16 Diane D. McClatchy Rockwell Collins 1
#16 Suresh Seethapathy Geosyntec Consultants 1
#16 Susan M. Aplin 1
#16 Yoachim C. Russ 1
#16 Dale Shelton Telecommunication Systems 1
#16 Johanna Wilson Telecommunication Systems 1
#16 Stefan Giroux 1
#16 Keith T. Fraser Unknown 1
#16 Peter Joyce Liberty Global Europe Holding B.V. 1
#16 John C. Earle Propeller 1
#16 Jo Anne Brilliant G And E International 1
#16 Kevin Delaney Rockwell Collins 1
#16 Kevin J. Powell Symbol Technologies 1
#16 C. Couglas Gillikin Rockwell Collins 1
#16 Stephen B. Alexander Ciena 1
#16 Stephen Wass Sicpa Holding Sa 1
#16 Mahidhar Reddy Semaconnect 1
#16 Samara Firebaugh MIT 1
#16 Robert G. Trenkamp Microstrategy Incorporated 1
#16 Fred Korangy 1
#16 Darrell R. Abernethy The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#16 Dennis Meyer AT&T 1
#16 Justin Blanco Medtronic 1
#16 Oliver Birch IBM 1

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