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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Potomac, MD ranks #453 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 273 patents from 140 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Potomac, MD include Bank of America, Intel, Corning Optical Communications. That works out to 5.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 140 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Elizabeth S. Votaw Bank of America 25
2 Kamran Etemad Intel 21
3 Igor Berlin Corning Optical Communications 10
#4 Saied Tadayon Btpatent 7
#5 Noel Terrence Southall The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 6
#6 Charlene M. Zigah 5
#6 Robert C. Hagemann, III Twilio 5
#8 Christian Lavedan Vanda Pharmaceuticals 4
#8 Steven Chen Sirf Technology 4
#8 Todd Leyba IBM 4
#8 Albert B. Deisseroth Microvax 4
#12 Deb K. Chatterjee Thermo Fisher 3
#12 Dmitri Kaganovich US Air Force 3
#12 Mark B. Johnson US Air Force 3
#12 Richard T. Lee Brigham and Women's Hospital 3
#12 K. J. Ray Liu Origin Wireless 3
#12 Mihael H. Polymeropoulos Vanda Pharmaceuticals 3
#12 Mark Meister Adaptive Methods 3
#12 Bala Subramaniam University Of Kansas 3
#12 Gideon Frieder Georgetown University 3
#12 Alberto Daniel Lacaze Robotic Research Opco 3
#12 Shiv Srivastava Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine 3
#12 Ezio Bonvini Macrogenics 3
#12 Claire Fraser Human Genome Sciences 3
#25 Harpal S. Mangat Howard University 2
#25 Sanjay A. Desai The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#25 Bruce P. Semple IBM 2
#25 Michael Bartman Sciencelogic 2
#25 Bette Pollard 2
#25 Masaki Terabe The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#25 Esther Chang Georgetown University 2
#25 Jhy-Jhu Lin Imagilin Technology 2
#25 Louis L. Wood Srchem 2
#25 Gulilat Gebeyehu Thermo Fisher 2
#25 Dongwook Shin Samsung 2
#25 Ramalingam Chellappa University Of Maryland 2
#25 Atousa Raissyan Kip Prod P1 Lp 2
#25 Nina D. Farzin 2
#25 Babak Nikoobakht Unknown 2
#25 Louis William Licamele Vanda Pharmaceuticals 2
#25 Peter Carlson Vestaron 2
#25 Adam Gross Salesforce 2
#25 Yingxian Xiao Georgetown University 2
#25 Xueling Wu The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#25 Michael R. Zachariah University Of Maryland 2
#25 Shahram Orandi NIST 2
#25 Scott E. Andochick 2
#48 Beibei Li Wellstat Immunotherapeutics 1
#48 Mark Becker Amazon 1
#48 Li Kong Somos 1

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