Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Laurel, MD ranks #1,935 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 65 patents from 42 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Laurel, MD include GE, Under Armour, US Army. That works out to 2.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–42 of 42 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 James Patrick Cipriano GE 6
2 Merida Miller Under Armour 4
3 Ali M. Darwish US Army 3
3 Lili Tian Corning Incorporated 3
3 Martin Brokner Christiansen 3
3 Michael J. Piszczek Datadirect Networks 3
#7 Thomas Evan Wilson Cadence Design Systems 2
#7 Keith B. Alexander Ironnet Cybersecurity 2
#7 Kunal R. Pandit University Of Maryland, College Park 2
#7 Xiaozhong He Honeywell 2
#7 John L. Schnase NASA 2
#7 Kenji Numata Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 2
#7 Ichiro Takeuchi University Of Maryland, College Park 2
#14 Matthew L. Fourney Laitram, L.L.C. 1
#14 Yuhuang Wang University Of Maryland, College Park 1
#14 Mohammad M. Jadidi Monash University 1
#14 Meghan E. Hartnett Harris 1
#14 Chris Dutrow Appbrilliance 1
#14 Dennis Toibero Best Lockers 1
#14 Bayu Aji Wicaksono Genesys Cloud Services 1
#14 Madhusudhan Kadari NASA 1
#14 Brian Eugene Cunningham 1
#14 Catherine Marx 1
#14 Nyamekye Obeng-Adjei University of Pennsylvania 1
#14 Mohamed O. Abutaleb 1
#14 Wenyi Shao Ellumen 1
#14 Michael Hinton LG 1
#14 Stephen G. Wargo Laitram, L.L.C. 1
#14 Stuart A. Jackson The Johns Hopkins University 1
#14 Sung J. Sunwoo The Johns Hopkins University 1
#14 John R. Sullivan Aetna 1
#14 Bettina Nechay 1
#14 Aziz Iqbal Black & Decker 1
#14 Zhung-Han Wu Origin Wireless 1
#14 Russell A. Fink Verizon 1
#14 Matthew P. Para The Johns Hopkins University 1
#14 Joseph M. Galante University of California 1
#14 Bliss G. Carkhuff The Johns Hopkins University 1
#14 Seenivasagam Dhamotharakkannan IBM 1
#14 Robert W. Robey The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#14 Eric Ducharne 1
#14 Simon J. Ghionea US Army 1

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