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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Springfield, VA ranks #1,497 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 84 patents from 58 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Springfield, VA include Samsung, US Air Force, Comcast. That works out to 2.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 58 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kang-ill Seo Samsung 9
2 Matthew Laskoski US Air Force 5
3 Bageshree Shevade Comcast 3
3 Tennille V. Goff Open Invention Network Llc Nc 3
3 Tatyana I. Feygelson US Navy 3
3 Angelos Stavrou George Mason 3
#7 Melissa Ortiz-Munoz Bank of America 2
#7 Ross Schermer US Air Force 2
#7 Jonathan L. Shaw US Air Force 2
#7 Brian L. Justus US Air Force 2
#7 Tom Pixley Hillcrest Laboratories 2
#7 Guillermo R. Villalobos US Air Force 2
#13 Cinthya A. Rocha Verizon 1
#13 Chris Camacho Mad Dogg Athletics 1
#13 Christopher Murdock Eit 1
#13 Brian J. Mastropietro RTX (Raytheon) 1
#13 Jennifer A. Gillett ExxonMobil 1
#13 Brad Buhr Iomaxis 1
#13 Adam Shields Cook Medical Technologies 1
#13 Carmine L. Cuda 1
#13 Clinton Behling 1
#13 Timothy J. Higgins GE 1
#13 Jennifer Granito Meta 1
#13 Michael E. Locasto Columbia University 1
#13 Chris M. Carlson Micron 1
#13 Curtis Evans Ncr 1
#13 Michael W. Nurnberger US Air Force 1
#13 Paul Jaffe Wideorbit 1
#13 James A. Hutchinson Qualcomm 1
#13 Donald L. Moffett Moog 1
#13 Tuan That Ton US Army 1
#13 Igor L. Medintz US Air Force 1
#13 Stephanie Pratt Aptima 1
#13 Dan Fiul 1
#13 David L. Branca Iomaxis 1
#13 Clayton Davis RTX (Raytheon) 1
#13 Michael H. Stewart US Navy 1
#13 Kathy L. Signorelli-Petrat Irx Therapeutics 1
#13 Kent E. Maggard Scimist 1
#13 Jamel Hammouda Emc 1
#13 Darian Anthony Edwards 1
#13 David W. Tennant 1
#13 Christopher Javellana Saldana Purdue Research Foundation 1
#13 Craig R. Ackerman US Army 1
#13 Rachael L. Myers-Ward US Navy 1
#13 Jin S Yu 1
#13 John Richard Iomaxis 1
#13 James E. Goodbar, III United States Postal Service 1
#13 Scott A. Trammell US Air Force 1
#13 Randi L. Knight 1

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