Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Highland, MD ranks #5,491 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 17 patents from 11 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Highland, MD include Datadirect Networks, Oceaneering International, Qiagen Gaithersburg. That works out to 15.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–11 of 11 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jason M. Cope Datadirect Networks 4
2 Clifford Allen Jennings Oceaneering International 3
3 Carl Theodore Edens Qiagen Gaithersburg 2
#4 Jason Bolles The Nielsen Company (Us) 1
#4 Ramani Duraiswami University Of Maryland 1
#4 Roeh Ben Isra-El 1
#4 Jason W. Nascone Zimmer 1
#4 Matthew Kaiser Curbell Medical Products 1
#4 Barry L. Mersky Audiodontics 1
#4 Graham K. Hubler US Air Force 1
#4 Yuefang Huang Elanco Us 1

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