Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Norfolk, VA ranks #2,416 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 49 patents from 37 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Norfolk, VA include Depuy Synthes Products, Gaumard Scientific Company, NASA. That works out to 0.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–37 of 37 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John R. Cournoyer Depuy Synthes Products 5
2 Michael S. Eggert Gaumard Scientific Company 3
2 Mehdi R. Khorrami NASA 3
#4 Douglas M. Nark NASA 2
#4 Karl H. Schoenbach Old Dominion University 2
#4 Richard Heller University Of South Florida 2
#4 Keith McKinley Basil Cisco 2
#8 Kenji CUNNION Realta Holdings 1
#8 Noah Moffett, III Unknown 1
#8 Patricia F. Harvey 1
#8 Larry E. Harvey, Jr. 1
#8 Daniel R. Short 1
#8 Stephane Girois Arkema France 1
#8 Neel K. KRISHNA Realta Holdings 1
#8 Andrei G. Pakhomov Old Dominion University 1
#8 Seth Fleishman 1
#8 Sergiy Popov Tyton Biosciences 1
#8 Christopher Brian Ovide Unknown 1
#8 Charles C. Trapani 1
#8 William C. White Dow Corning 1
#8 E. Waightstill Avery 1
#8 Charlette A. Allen 1
#8 Nicholas G. Datyner 1
#8 Do Sun Im 1
#8 Matthew S. Kight Alstom Technology 1
#8 Tim Bunton Dimicron 1
#8 Shaunice Wallace 1
#8 Joseph Sikora NASA 1
#8 Andrew D. Newbold Juul Labs 1
#8 Peter Takacs Unknown 1
#8 Juan Fernandez Products Of Tomorrow 1
#8 Loree C. Heller University Of South Florida 1
#8 Lloyd Wolfinbarger, Jr. Lifenet Health 1
#8 Florin Dobrian Conviva 1
#8 Cynthia E. Keppel Hampton University 1
#8 Michael J. Acheson The United States Of America As Represented By The Administrator Of The National Aeronautics And Space Adminstration 1
#8 Drew Landman NASA 1

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