Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Arlington, VA ranks #289 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 502 patents from 278 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Arlington, VA include IBM, Deepsig, Sprint Spectrum. That works out to 2.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 278 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Christopher J. Dawson IBM 14
2 Timothy James O'Shea Deepsig 12
3 Nagi A. Mansour Sprint Spectrum 11
#4 Jun Sung Park Hyundai Motor 10
#4 Hannes Jouhikainen Capital One Services 10
#6 Youssef F. Baker Abl Ip Holding 8
#6 Sarah Cunningham Capital One Services 8
#8 Alexandra Colevas Capital One Services 7
#8 Michael J. Davis Microsoft 7
#8 Dan Lin Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co. 7
#8 Mykhaylo Bulgakov Capital One Services 7
#12 Hongcheng Wang Comcast 6
#12 Newton Howard Unknown 6
#12 Andrew Kowalevicz RTX (Raytheon) 6
#12 Drew Jacobs Capital One Services 6
#16 Debra R. Rolison US Air Force 5
#16 Vikash Khatri Afiniti 5
#16 Jason Scot Richardson Parker-Hannifin 5
#16 Rahul C. Thakkar Pixia 5
#16 Daniel John Marsch Capital One Services 5
#21 Scott Edington Visa 4
#21 Rick W. Kindt US Navy 4
#21 Kevan Emmott Capital One Services 4
#21 Arseny Bogomolov Palantir Technologies 4
#21 Christopher Phipps IBM 4
#21 Scott Miller Gi Scientific 4
#21 Noah Robert Weingart Alarm.Com Incorporated 4
#28 Marc Cordes Intech Defense 3
#28 Marco A. Mercader George Washington University 3
#28 Brandon Marc-Aurele Palantir Technologies 3
#28 Thomas A. Caputo Newell Window Furnishings 3
#28 Marie Therese Dominguez United States Postal Service 3
#28 John Popoolapade Globus Medical 3
#28 Gregory J. Smith National Semiconductor 3
#28 Alex Leo Niderberg Capital One Services 3
#28 Alexander Lawrence Reeder Alarm.Com Incorporated 3
#28 Raymond Hoheisel US Navy 3
#28 James Shea Deepsig 3
#28 Jay Crystal Verizon 3
#28 Christopher Richbourg Palantir Technologies 3
#28 Brett E. Morris IBM 3
#28 Nicholas Aaron McCarthy Hawkeye 360 3
#28 Catherine Ross K2M 3
#28 Allen Halbritter The Boeing 3
#28 Andre Michalak Somnifix International 3
#28 Ian MacLeod Qomplx 3
#47 Karla Escalante Capital One Services 2
#47 Amin Hassanzadeh Accenture Global Solutions Limited 2
#47 Jonathan Fentzke Omniearth 2
#47 Melissa A. Crawford Capital One Services 2

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