Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Silver Spring, MD ranks #581 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 231 patents from 151 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Silver Spring, MD include Kofax, The Nielsen Company (Us), Disney. That works out to 2.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 151 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jan W. Amtrup Kofax 12
2 Alan Neuhauser The Nielsen Company (Us) 9
3 Eric C. Haseltine Disney 8
#4 Jeffrey M. Sieracki Medtronic 6
#5 Andrew D'Souza Openet Telecom 5
#6 Robert S. Howell 4
#6 Rolf E. Swenson Bracco Diagnostics 4
#6 Eric J. Stewart 4
#6 Sudersan M. Tuladhar United Therapeutics 4
#10 Krist Wongsuphasawat Microsoft 3
#10 Murat V. Kalayoglu Topokine Therapeutics 3
#10 James Gray Kimbrough, III Adp 3
#10 Barry M. Graham IBM 3
#10 Adam L. Friedman US Air Force 3
#10 Ryan Mark Speers Ionic Security 3
#10 Charles Gregory Lampe Verint Americas 3
#17 Stephen Ignatius Hasenei 2
#17 Christopher M. Jewell University Of Maryland, College Park 2
#17 Louai Adhami Intuitive Surgical 2
#17 Jeffrey A. Toretsky Georgetown University 2
#17 Jeffrey White Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems 2
#17 James Mond Biosynexus Incorporated 2
#17 Nicholas Lagakos US Air Force 2
#17 Kapil Raj Nair Oracle 2
#17 Bryan A. Cook Idhl Holdings 2
#17 Peter R. Strapp Tate Access Floors Leasing 2
#17 Jason OPDYKE Hanwha Techwin Co. 2
#17 Christian F. Ockenhouse US Army 2
#17 Lyle David Isaacs University Of Maryland, College Park 2
#17 Philip Hollander Baltimore Aircoil Company 2
#17 Diana Blithe Laboratoire Hra-Pharma 2
#17 Daren Smith Disney 2
#17 Jeffrey S. Lin The Johns Hopkins University 2
#17 Carl Stevens Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 2
#17 David Berman IBM 2
#36 Ali Salman ALSHAFAI 1
#36 Christina Harris Sloan Kettering Institute For Cancer Research 1
#36 Daniel M. Potrepka US Army 1
#36 Jack Perry 1
#36 Irina Burd Kennedy Krieger Institute 1
#36 Albert M. Cheh Michigan State University 1
#36 Mounya Elhilali The Johns Hopkins University 1
#36 Kurt Andrew Merriweather Discovery Communications 1
#36 Gregory Scott Ericksen Redxdefense, Llc. 1
#36 Charles L. McIntosh Cook Medical Technologies 1
#36 Bryn Lauren Adams US Army 1
#36 Hatice Karauzum Integrated Biotherapeutics 1
#36 Shahid N. Shah Netspective Communications 1
#36 E. Frank Hodal, Jr. 1
#36 Heesung Yoon Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources 1

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