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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Reston, VA ranks #679 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 198 patents from 109 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Reston, VA include Abl Ip Holding, Bank of America, Verisign. That works out to 3.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 109 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David P. Ramer Abl Ip Holding 20
2 Sounil Yu Bank of America 9
3 Daniel Schonfeld Verisign 6
#4 Daniel J. Rope IBM 5
#5 David Brian Lennon Amazon 4
#5 Siamak Ziraknejad Microstrategy Incorporated 4
#5 Hui Zhu IBM 4
#5 Niels Haering Objectvideo 4
#5 Michael P. Hammer Cisco 4
#5 Walid Negm Accenture Global Services Limited 4
#5 Chih-Hao Ho Mpi 4
#5 Howard Pfeffer 4
#13 Mark Welton ExxonMobil 3
#13 Matthew Cannon Intuit 3
#13 Charles A. Eldering Prime Research Alliance E 3
#13 Theodore Markson Capital One Services 3
#13 Kenneth Gould 3
#18 Liming Zhang GE 2
#18 Robert D. Varrin, Jr. Dominion Engineering 2
#18 Don Gunasekara 2
#18 Amy B. Cradic United States Postal Service 2
#18 Christopher Marsh 2
#18 Jasenko Ibrahimbegovic Verisign 2
#18 Lara Virginia Greden Ca 2
#18 Neel Goyal Verisign 2
#18 Johnnye R. L. Tamaru IBM 2
#18 Mehul Gandhi AT&T 2
#18 Matthew Mountz Carfax 2
#18 Carlos R. Aguayo Gonzalez Power Fingerprinting 2
#18 Thu Rein Kyaw Aol 2
#18 Andrew Fregly Verisign 2
#18 Alan Joseph Lachapelle Amazon 2
#18 Susan H. Barton Mayo Foundation 2
#18 Allan M. Weinstein Harrington Arthritis Research Center 2
#18 Don T. Mak IBM 2
#18 Anthony R. Slotwinski Nikon Metrology Nv 2
#37 Jonathan Hotz Angel.Com Incorporated 1
#37 Jing Qu Sprint Spectrum 1
#37 Brian Stanley Conflict Kinetics 1
#37 Joshua Buck Powers PayPal 1
#37 Keith Hamburg Capital One Services 1
#37 Jeremy Rephlo Capital One Services 1
#37 Al Ebnereza Sprint Spectrum 1
#37 Gregory M. Nulty Tollgrade Communications 1
#37 Vladimir Entin 1
#37 Sohil Sami 1
#37 Jan Michael Wiewiora Unisys 1
#37 Andrew K. Stemple onsemi 1
#37 Malini Kothapalli Verisign 1
#37 Jawash Mohamed Amazon 1

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