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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sterling, VA ranks #1,551 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 80 patents from 49 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sterling, VA include Verizon, Hillcrest Laboratories, Cisco. That works out to 2.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–49 of 49 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark D. Carney Verizon 8
2 Charles W. K. Gritton Hillcrest Laboratories 7
3 Warren Scott Wainner Cisco 6
#4 Li Yu Avigilon Fortress 4
#5 David Klein Dhk Storage 3
#5 Loren Looger Howard Hughes Medical Institute 3
#7 Niem Dang 2
#7 Patrick D. Blattner Microsoft 2
#7 Bruce H. DeWoolfson Environmental Products 2
#7 Khalid W. Al-Mufti Commscope Technologies 2
#7 Brian Pugh Comscore 2
#7 Deborah Boles Canon 2
#13 Srinivas Attili IBM 1
#13 SURABHI SUDHA Verisign 1
#13 John L. Immordino Fortinet 1
#13 Jonathan Howard Orbital Sciences 1
#13 Jeremy T. Hall Amazon 1
#13 Kevin J. Arunski Emc Ip Holding Company 1
#13 William Salusky Aol 1
#13 Mohammed Abdul Majid Aol 1
#13 Justin Uberti Google 1
#13 Suzanna Diebes Daon Holdings Limited 1
#13 Alan Figgatt Sonomedica 1
#13 Gregory S. Keller Isolagen Technologies 1
#13 William A. Ricaurte 1
#13 Douglas E. Rogers Echo360 1
#13 CHRIS W. PARASKEVOPOULOS Whirlpool 1
#13 Ying Liao Microstrategy Incorporated 1
#13 Christopher L. Hooban US Air Force 1
#13 William P. Niedringhaus The Mitre 1
#13 Alex Holmes Verisign 1
#13 Greg Keller Jumpcloud 1
#13 Dhruva RAJENDRA Latchable 1
#13 Abdul-Wahab Mirza Sprint Spectrum 1
#13 Mahendra Jain The Michigan Biotechnology Institute 1
#13 David B. Israel Aol 1
#13 Bradley Reck United States Postal Service 1
#13 Jeffrey Biber Hughes Network Systems 1
#13 Daniel S. Elias Verizon 1
#13 Adam McKay Mantech Advanced Systems International 1
#13 John Alexander Wise 1
#13 Andrew Simpson Verisign 1
#13 Nikhil Gagvani Check Video 1
#13 Stephen M. Farley US Air Force 1
#13 Rodney Lance Joffe Neustar 1
#13 Prakash Bhagwan Durgani Angel.Com Incorporated 1
#13 Paul Richard Gardner Ncs Technologies 1
#13 Nathan Evans Broadcom 1
#13 Ariful Hannan Commscope Technologies 1

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