Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sterling, VA ranks #1,342 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 101 patents from 59 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sterling, VA include Sprint Spectrum, Broadcom, Cisco. That works out to 3.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 59 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Pratik Kothari Sprint Spectrum 6
2 Nathan Evans Broadcom 5
2 Warren Scott Wainner Cisco 5
#4 Dalton Pont Coresyte 4
#4 Mark D. Carney Verizon 4
#6 Li Yu Avigilon Fortress 3
#6 Justin Uberti Google 3
#6 Loren Looger Howard Hughes Medical Institute 3
#6 Erik M. Stang Bristol-Myers Squibb 3
#6 Alexander D. Holmes Verisign 3
#6 David Klein Dhk Storage 3
#12 Deborah Boles Canon 2
#12 Manisha Bhat Somos 2
#12 Niem Dang 2
#12 Jeffrey Biber Hughes Network Systems 2
#12 Khalid W. Al-Mufti Commscope Technologies 2
#12 Mark Taylor Bede Scientific Instruments 2
#12 Alexander Mason Long Invincea 2
#12 Ariful Hannan Commscope Technologies 2
#12 Brian Pugh Comscore 2
#12 Andrew Simpson Verisign 2
#12 Rodney Lance Joffe Neustar 2
#23 Dean Ballew 1
#23 Jon Peterson Neustar 1
#23 Matthew Walnock Ol Security Limited Liability 1
#23 Mohammad Ghalambor The Richards 1
#23 Kubulay Avci 1
#23 Emrah Cicos 1
#23 Aaron Pawlowski Sprint Communications 1
#23 Henry A. Becker Canadian Gas Research Institute 1
#23 Prakash Bhagwan Durgani Angel.Com Incorporated 1
#23 Webb Dryfoos Neustar 1
#23 Richard Owen J.M. Canty 1
#23 Abhilash Ravindran Intersections 1
#23 Michael P. Sica RTX (Raytheon) 1
#23 John Thomas Love Meta 1
#23 Raja Chawat Verisign 1
#23 Mahendra Jain The Michigan Biotechnology Institute 1
#23 Peter Charlier Davis Neustar 1
#23 Bradley Reck United States Postal Service 1
#23 Thomas Wlodkowski Comcast 1
#23 Patrick D. Blattner Microsoft 1
#23 Ronald Straz Orbcomm 1
#23 Greg Keller Jumpcloud 1
#23 Jason Dudash RTX (Raytheon) 1
#23 Angela Melton-Celsa Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine 1
#23 Nicholas Dale The University Of Warwick 1
#23 John L. Immordino Fortinet 1
#23 Jeremy T. Hall Amazon 1
#23 Charles W. K. Gritton Hillcrest Laboratories 1

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