Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Charlottesville, VA ranks #455 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 272 patents from 121 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Charlottesville, VA include IBM, Kaleo, Optimedica. That works out to 5.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 121 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Rick A. Hamilton, II IBM 80
2 Evan T. Edwards Kaleo 9
3 David Angeley Optimedica 7
#4 John A. Hossack Acuson 5
#4 Benton H. Calhoun University of Virginia 5
#4 David Patrick Luebke NVIDIA 5
#7 William F. Walker Hemosonics 4
#7 George T. Gillies University of Virginia 4
#7 Timothy L. Macdonald University of Virginia 4
#7 Travis N. Blalock University of Virginia 4
#7 Brian Foutz Cadence Design Systems 4
#12 Brian R. Wamhoff Hemoshear 3
#12 Paul Andrew Yates University of Virginia 3
#12 Aatmesh Shrivastava University of Virginia 3
#12 Michael E. Coleman Ingeneron 3
#12 Gwo-Jaw Wang Kaohsiung Medical University 3
#12 Barry W. Johnson Privaris 3
#12 Marc D. Breton University of Virginia 3
#19 Alexander L. Klibanov University of Virginia 2
#19 Stephen D. Patek University of Virginia 2
#19 Marcel Utz University of Virginia 2
#19 Brooks Hart Pate University of Virginia 2
#19 David S. Abdallah Privaris 2
#19 George J. Christ Wake Forest University Health Sciences 2
#19 Richard L. Guerrant University of Virginia 2
#19 Prakash Kamath Juniper Networks 2
#19 Paul S. Hoffman University of Virginia 2
#19 Hendrik Mario Geysen Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission 2
#19 Boris P. Kovatchev University of Virginia 2
#19 Steven Bowers Caltech 2
#19 Alexander Martin DeJarnatt Microsoft 2
#19 Janice M. Coughlin Plow & Hearth 2
#19 Dana H. Hangai IBM 2
#19 Manoj Patel Viiv Healthcare Uk (No.5) Limited 2
#19 Amanda Lacy Plow & Hearth 2
#36 Jon Moore RTX (Raytheon) 1
#36 James Tolle 1
#36 Colleen H. Karvetski University of Virginia 1
#36 Brian Root Lockheed Martin 1
#36 Alec Jacob Devine Bateman Barron Associates 1
#36 John P. Mugler, III University of Virginia 1
#36 Jeffrey Coleman Demo Luna Innovations Incorporated 1
#36 George Rodeheaver Plurogen Therapeutics 1
#36 Judith M. White Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited 1
#36 Olivia P. Sullivan University of Virginia 1
#36 Jeffrey W. Johnston Fourthwall Media 1
#36 Rogers C. Ritter Stereotaxis 1
#36 Andrey M. Peskov Aker Wade Power Technologies 1
#36 Conrad Koenig Andrews Luna Innovations Incorporated 1
#36 Mark T. Drapanas Laitram, L.L.C. 1

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