Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Vail, AZ ranks #1,081 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 125 patents from 48 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Vail, AZ include IBM, Sony, RTX (Raytheon). That works out to 9.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–48 of 48 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joseph W. Dain IBM 23
2 Gregory E. McBride IBM 14
3 Jason L. Peipelman IBM 11
#4 Kyle B. Dudgeon IBM 6
#5 Leo Pedlow Sony 5
#6 Michael P. Groover IBM 4
#6 David H. F. Harper IBM 4
#6 Christopher B. Moore IBM 4
#6 Howard N. Martin IBM 4
#10 Wayne Y. Lee RTX (Raytheon) 3
#10 Michael G. Sisco IBM 3
#10 Jeffrey L. Kapp IBM 3
#10 Igor P. Kovalev Sion Power 3
#14 Jennifer S. Shioya IBM 2
#14 Eric J. Harris IBM 2
#14 Angel E. Delgado IBM 2
#17 Emile M. Szlemko RTX (Raytheon) 1
#17 Todd M. Tosseth IBM 1
#17 Michael Anthony Klinicki 1
#17 Giles D. Jones RTX (Raytheon) 1
#17 Steven M. Kern IBM 1
#17 Andreas B. M. Koster IBM 1
#17 Matthew E. Brooks IBM 1
#17 David P. Knawa The Boeing 1
#17 Jeffery F. Knighton Nedelco, Incorporated 1
#17 Michael J. Aden RTX (Raytheon) 1
#17 Matthew S. Prucinsky Rain Bird 1
#17 Ken A. Fetterhoff RTX (Raytheon) 1
#17 Brett Hughes 1
#17 Jorge D. Acuna IBM 1
#17 Meterio Micheal Lonsway 1
#17 Larry P. Hatch 1
#17 Preston A. Carpenter IBM 1
#17 Andreas Bernardus Mattias Koster IBM 1
#17 Frank Manjarres 1
#17 Tovi F. Johnson Honeywell 1
#17 Michael P. Copeland IBM 1
#17 Dimitar T. Trifonov Texas Instruments 1
#17 David A. Brettell IBM 1
#17 John Joseph Christopher Kopera Sion Power 1
#17 Brian A. Gin RTX (Raytheon) 1
#17 Khang N. Nguyen IBM 1
#17 Steve Patterson The Boeing 1
#17 Ronald F. Cormier, Jr. Texas Instruments 1
#17 Christopher D. Nicholas Language Technologies 1
#17 Shawn M. Bramblett IBM 1
#17 Jeffrey E. Decker RTX (Raytheon) 1
#17 Michael S. Spangler RTX (Raytheon) 1

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