Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fairfax, VA ranks #356 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 425 patents from 164 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fairfax, VA include Ofinno, LG, Vignet Incorporated. That works out to 17.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 164 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Alireza Babaei Ofinno 96
2 Taehun Kim LG 45
3 Praduman Jain Vignet Incorporated 9
3 Daniel M. Megginson Abl Ip Holding 9
#5 Zheng Cai T-Mobile Innovations 7
#5 Udit Thakore Sprint Spectrum 7
#5 Swapneel Sheth Verisign 7
#8 Jorge Vasquez Spin Memory 6
#8 Marouane Balmakhtar T-Mobile Innovations 6
#10 Ronnie C. Mease The Johns Hopkins University 5
#11 Timothy L. Hilbert ExxonMobil 4
#11 Neeta Jain Vignet Incorporated 4
#11 Saravanan Mallesan Verizon 4
#11 Juan A. Roman United States Postal Service 4
#11 Andrew Paul Mikulski Amazon 4
#11 Eric Osterweil Verisign 4
#11 Paul J. Chase, JR. IBM 4
#18 Mark Andrew Hanson Alarm.Com Incorporated 3
#18 Kelly A. Argyros IBM 3
#18 Tse Huai Wu U.S. Patent Innovations 3
#18 John R. Lowell The Boeing 3
#18 Daniel Kang Vungle 3
#18 Frank Eugene Pecjak Comscore 3
#18 Phuong Huynh Sigmasense, Llc. 3
#18 Nathan D. Hansen Conductive Composites Company Ip 3
#18 Thomas Hoffmann Senseware 3
#18 Denys P. Kim Verizon 3
#28 Michael B. Kiernan Capital One Services 2
#28 Jian Cui Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co. 2
#28 Sarvang D. Shah United States Postal Service 2
#28 Victor Larson Virnetx 2
#28 Robert W. Flower Novadaq Technologies Ulc 2
#28 Clayton C. Bonnell United States Postal Service 2
#28 Hossein Ghaffari Nik Reverse Ionizer Systems 2
#28 Kenety Borges Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) 2
#28 Nahid Farhady Ghalaty 2
#28 Suresh Kalkavery Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) 2
#28 Yih Huang George Mason 2
#28 Jeffrey Alan Diehl Open Text Sa Ulc 2
#28 Jeffrey Wieker Capital One Services 2
#28 Vladislav Gavrilets Rockwell Collins 2
#28 Richard B. McMurray Reverse Ionizer Systems 2
#28 Maharshi Jha Capital One Services 2
#28 Mohamed Lafeer Capital One Services 2
#28 Christopher Alex Wieczorek T-Mobile Usa 2
#28 William D. Figg The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#28 Stephen Kunath 2
#28 Jason T. Calla ExxonMobil 2
#28 Michael Gardner Deceglie Alliance For Sustainable Energy 2
#28 Brian Scott Chapman The Boeing 2

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