Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Silver Spring, MD ranks #547 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 226 patents from 142 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Silver Spring, MD include The Nielsen Company (Us), Kofax, US Air Force. That works out to 2.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 142 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Alan Neuhauser The Nielsen Company (Us) 12
2 Jan W. Amtrup Kofax 11
3 Robert S. Howell 5
#4 Antonio C. Ting US Air Force 4
#4 Andrew R. Russette Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 4
#4 Dennis J. Kopecko The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 4
#4 Kenneth A. Jacobson US Dept of Health & Human Services 4
#4 Eric C. Haseltine Disney 4
#4 Eric J. Stewart 4
#4 Jack Rozmaryn Hughes Network Systems 4
#4 Harold Jason Schiller Verizon 4
#12 Barry M. Graham IBM 3
#12 Jeffrey M. Sieracki Medtronic 3
#12 Evelyne Tzoukermann Comcast 3
#12 Makarand Paranjape Georgetown University 3
#12 Andrew Lees Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine 3
#12 Andrew D'Souza Openet Telecom 3
#18 Preston Blay Baltimore Aircoil Company 2
#18 Scott A. Piper IBM 2
#18 Jeffrey A. Toretsky Georgetown University 2
#18 David Oberholzer Earth Networks 2
#18 Stephen F. Fromyer Oceaneering International 2
#18 Jeffrey C. Owrutsky US Air Force 2
#18 Stephen R. Schmidt W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 2
#18 Philip Hollander Baltimore Aircoil Company 2
#18 David Berman IBM 2
#18 Charles Abelmann Unknown 2
#18 Shahid N. Shah Netspective Communications 2
#18 Arthur Webb Allison, III Control Data 2
#18 Jack Perry 2
#18 Ryan Gehl Riverbed Technology 2
#18 Carl Stevens Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 2
#18 William S. Rabinovich US Air Force 2
#18 Patricia Guerry US Air Force 2
#18 Daniel Hakim Trx Systems 2
#18 Hongzhong Zhou Comcast 2
#18 Che-Hung Robert Lee The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#18 Rolf E. Swenson Bracco Diagnostics 2
#18 Murat V. Kalayoglu Topokine Therapeutics 2
#18 Ray M. Gottlieb 2
#41 Ludmila Kelly Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 1
#41 Anteneh Daba 1
#41 Maros Ivanic 1
#41 David Copeland Infinera 1
#41 Anna Skinner Anthrotronix 1
#41 Byron Alexander Kelly 1
#41 Andrew Yeatts University Of Maryland, College Park 1
#41 Arnold Greenland IBM 1
#41 Lawrence R. Sita University Of Maryland, College Park 1
#41 Dawn E. Gundersen-Rindal USDA 1

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