Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Potomac, MD ranks #536 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 249 patents from 140 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Potomac, MD include Bank of America, Intel, Origin Wireless. That works out to 5.3 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 16
2 Kamran Etemad Intel 13
3 K. J. Ray Liu Origin Wireless 7
3 Igor Berlin Corning Optical Communications 7
#5 Richard T. Lee Brigham and Women's Hospital 6
#6 Charlene M. Zigah 4
#6 Alberto Daniel Lacaze Robotic Research Opco 4
#6 Karl K. Johe Neuralstem 4
#6 Gerald P. Skalka Victor Stanley 4
#6 Adam Gross Salesforce 4
#6 Jeffrey Schlom US Dept of Health & Human Services 4
#6 Louis William Licamele Vanda Pharmaceuticals 4
#13 Emma Michaela Siritzky 3
#13 Atousa Raissyan Kip Prod P1 Lp 3
#13 Wei Chen US Air Force 3
#13 Dipto Chakravarty Netiq 3
#13 Robert C. Hagemann, III Twilio 3
#13 Xueling Wu The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 3
#13 Fengtian Xue Northwestern University 3
#13 Mihael H. Polymeropoulos Vanda Pharmaceuticals 3
#13 Albert B. Deisseroth Microvax 3
#13 Mark B. Johnson US Air Force 3
#23 Richard O. Cannon, III 2
#23 Frances S. Ligler US Air Force 2
#23 Imran N. Chaudhri Apixio 2
#23 Louis L. Wood Srchem 2
#23 Daguang Xu Siemens Healthcare Limited 2
#23 Noel Terrence Southall The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#23 Saied Tadayon Btpatent 2
#23 Yongping Yang The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#23 Claire Fraser Human Genome Sciences 2
#23 Baoyan Ding Vt Idirect 2
#23 Sofia A. Casares US Air Force 2
#23 Teodor D. Brumeanu US Air Force 2
#23 Omid Ebrahimi Kia Exelis 2
#23 Bala Subramaniam University Of Kansas 2
#23 Alan Rudolph US Air Force 2
#23 Chang-Ho Ahn Rexahn Pharmaceuticals 2
#23 Aleksandar Purkovic Nortel Networks Limited 2
#23 Guy Montgomery Hughes Network Systems 2
#23 Mohammad Heidaran Anthrogenesis 2
#23 John Niederhuber Inova Health System 2
#23 Eytan Abraham Lonza Walkersville 2
#23 Theadore Pantazes 2
#23 Austin B. Huang Supernus Pharmaceuticals 2
#23 Scott E. Andochick 2
#47 Laurence C. Chow American Dental Association Health Foundation 1
#47 Michael Siegenthaler 1
#47 David Cetlin 1
#47 Howard M. Milchberg University Of Maryland, College Park 1

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