Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Silver Spring, MD ranks #545 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 238 patents from 158 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Silver Spring, MD include Cpg Technologies, Kofax, Disney. That works out to 2.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 158 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 James D. Lilly Cpg Technologies 19
2 Jan W. Amtrup Kofax 13
3 Eric C. Haseltine Disney 8
#4 Andrew D'Souza Openet Telecom 5
#5 Jeffrey M. Sieracki Medtronic 4
#5 Richard E. Pavek Rfnav 4
#5 Alan Neuhauser The Nielsen Company (Us) 4
#8 Patricia Guerry US Air Force 3
#8 Nabil D. Bassim US Air Force 3
#8 Mikhail Kotov US Air Force 3
#8 Bryan A. Cook Idhl Holdings 3
#8 James Mond Biosynexus Incorporated 3
#8 Christopher C. Broder Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine 3
#14 Sudersan M. Tuladhar United Therapeutics 2
#14 Lawrence Blas Perez Novartis Ag 2
#14 Philip Hollander Baltimore Aircoil Company 2
#14 Katherine L. Radtke University Of Maryland, Baltimore 2
#14 Shahid N. Shah Netspective Communications 2
#14 Reinhard Radermacher University Of Maryland 2
#14 John J. Dellomo Sr2 Group 2
#14 Carl Stevens Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 2
#14 Kenneth A. Jacobson US Dept of Health & Human Services 2
#14 Lawrence Edward Kagemann University Of Pittsburgh 2
#14 Ryan Mark Speers Ionic Security 2
#14 Preston Blay Baltimore Aircoil Company 2
#14 Scott M. Straub Lexisnexis Risk Solutions Fl 2
#14 Barry M. Graham IBM 2
#14 Robert M. Umek Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 2
#14 Mandoye Ndoye Howard University 2
#14 Robert S. Howell 2
#14 Glenn S. Tamkin NASA 2
#32 Lo I. Yin NASA 1
#32 Khaled ElWazeer Samsung 1
#32 Murat V. Kalayoglu Topokine Therapeutics 1
#32 Ann Marie Knolhoff The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#32 Alexander S. Klinger United States Postal Service 1
#32 Samir N. Khleif Augusta University Research Institute 1
#32 Koichiro Takamizawa Smartsky Networks 1
#32 Gorden Videen US Army 1
#32 Evelyne Tzoukermann Comcast 1
#32 Hongzhong Zhou Comcast 1
#32 Jeffrey Bloom Ensco 1
#32 Brian E. Damit The Johns Hopkins University 1
#32 Adam L. Friedman US Air Force 1
#32 Kevin F. Forbes Catholic University Of America 1
#32 Che-Hung Robert Lee The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#32 Tsineng Tony Ying US Dept of Commerce 1
#32 Rita Mahon US Air Force 1
#32 Eric G. Dodge RTX (Raytheon) 1
#32 Daniel C. Stein University Of Maryland 1

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