Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Reston, VA ranks #684 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 184 patents from 100 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Reston, VA include Time Warner Cable, Abl Ip Holding, Prime Research Alliance E. That works out to 2.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 100 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kenneth Gould Time Warner Cable 10
2 Howard Pfeffer Time Warner Cable 9
3 David P. Ramer Abl Ip Holding 8
#4 Charles A. Eldering Prime Research Alliance E 7
#5 Sounil Yu Bank of America 5
#5 Gila Ghavami Sprint Spectrum 5
#7 Carlos R. Aguayo Gonzalez Power Fingerprinting 4
#7 Matthew Cannon Intuit 4
#7 Hui Zhu IBM 4
#10 Timothy L. Robinson Open Invention Network Llc Nc 3
#10 Niels Jonker Boingo Wireless 3
#10 Robert Moffatt Etherdyne Technologies 3
#10 Don Gunasekara Time Warner Cable 3
#10 Michael P. Hammer Cisco 3
#10 Dhananjay Bansal Convergys Cmg Utah 3
#10 Lara Virginia Greden Ca 3
#17 Walid Negm Accenture Global Services Limited 2
#17 Chih-Hao Ho Mpi 2
#17 Yohan Baillot Exelis 2
#17 Michael C. Starr Fortinet 2
#17 Alvin U. Chen ExxonMobil 2
#17 Neel Goyal Verisign 2
#17 Christopher Marsh Time Warner Cable 2
#17 Niels Haering Objectvideo 2
#17 Neha Rani Rathi Bank of America 2
#17 Amy B. Cradic United States Postal Service 2
#17 Mariam Sorond Dish Wireless L.L.C. 2
#17 William Nickerson US Air Force 2
#17 Daniel J. Rope IBM 2
#17 Douglas Kim Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2
#17 Siamak Ziraknejad Microstrategy Incorporated 2
#17 Jing Qu Sprint Spectrum 2
#17 Akos Vertes George Washington University 2
#17 Brian Coughlin Time Warner Cable 2
#17 Mark Welton ExxonMobil 2
#17 David W. Raymond National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia 2
#17 Allan M. Weinstein Harrington Arthritis Research Center 2
#17 S. Derek Turner Theravance 2
#17 Praveen Paripati The University Of Toledo 2
#40 Bonnie Niederstrasser Comscore 1
#40 Steve Chienwen Huang Leidos 1
#40 Changsheng Yang South China University Of Technology 1
#40 E. Terry Neely Avigilon Analytics 1
#40 James D. Simmons Aol 1
#40 Tim Cody Neustar 1
#40 Robert Jones 1
#40 Athanasios G. Christ Unknown 1
#40 David C. LeDoux Booz Allen Hamilton 1
#40 Mahabala Adiga The University Of Toledo 1
#40 Tim McNevin Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 1

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