Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Forest, VA ranks #1,727 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 74 patents from 32 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Forest, VA include Commscope Technologies, Bwxt Mpower, Capital One Services. That works out to 6.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–32 of 32 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Van E. Hanson Commscope Technologies 14
2 Scott J. Shargots Bwxt Mpower 7
3 Michael J. Edwards Bwxt Mpower 6
3 Fred William Phillips Commscope Technologies 6
#5 Lewis A. Walton Bwxt Mpower 4
#6 Jonathan Witter Capital One Services 3
#7 Charles B. Morrison Commscope Technologies 2
#7 Cornelius Edward Holliday GE 2
#7 Chris Brown PayPal 2
#7 Gary R. Poling Framatome 2
#7 Julius M. Ullmann Bwxt Mpower 2
#7 Daniel J. Morris Flowserve Management 2
#7 Richard W. Brown US Air Force 2
#7 Anne R. Austin Bwxt Mpower 2
#15 Darren Lasko Qualcomm 1
#15 Steven J. Younghouse Bwxt Technical Services Group 1
#15 James B. Inman Bwxt Nuclear Energy 1
#15 George W. Kellam, III 1
#15 Kenneth B. Stuckey The Babcock & Wilcox 1
#15 Joel P. Husted Unknown 1
#15 Royce H. Husted Unknown 1
#15 Ryan Z. Ziegler Bwxt Nuclear Energy 1
#15 Ronald C. Watson Bwxt Mpower 1
#15 Richard H. Lee Belvac Production Machinery 1
#15 Charles A. Graves Framatome 1
#15 Gary W. Neeley Bwxt Advanced Technologies 1
#15 Mac L. Hartless Harris 1
#15 Thomas Ebeling Hanwha Azdel 1
#15 Randy Ellison Netmotion Wireless 1
#15 Donald Dohmann 1
#15 Daniel Lee Laughman 1
#15 Michael Anthony Maiuzzo Sentel 1

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