Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Herndon, VA ranks #370 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 412 patents from 132 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Herndon, VA include Ofinno, Alarm.Com Incorporated, Walmart Apollo. That works out to 16.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 132 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hua Zhou Ofinno 70
2 Ali Cagatay Cirik Ofinno 23
3 Weihua Qiao Ofinno 22
#4 David James Hutz Alarm.Com Incorporated 18
#5 Robert L. Cantrell Walmart Apollo 15
#6 Kevin Christopher Miller Amazon 14
#7 Kai Xu Ofinno 9
#8 Sathyanarayanan Raghunathan Sprint Spectrum 8
#9 Suresh Majjara Sprint Spectrum 7
#9 Maheswaran Vijayakumar Sprint Spectrum 7
#9 Neha Goel Qualcomm 7
#9 Sean P. White Abl Ip Holding 7
#13 Joseph Waldron Verisign 6
#13 Himaanshu Gupta Here Global B.V. 6
#13 Pierre Mallett, III Centripetal Networks 6
#13 Paul John Tillotson Amazon 6
#17 Robert Nathan Picardi Alarm.Com Incorporated 5
#17 Robert Eric Fitzgerald Amazon 5
#17 Jason Rogers Abl Ip Holding 5
#20 Rashmi Kumar Rogers Abl Ip Holding 4
#20 Michael Garcia Ibt Co.,Ltd 4
#20 Sriram Sharma Somos 4
#20 Hitesh Batra United Therapeutics 4
#20 Gaurang Bhatt Capital One Services 4
#20 Dana Eubanks Avigilon Fortress 4
#20 Benjamin Philip Grubin Amazon 4
#27 Shuai Ye Amazon 3
#27 Stephen M. Dearing United States Postal Service 3
#27 Geeta Shyamala Capital One Services 3
#27 Wei-Li Liao Expression Pathology 3
#27 Thomas B. Gravely Andrew 3
#32 John Donald Hill Heartport 2
#32 Anjaneya S. Kovvali ExxonMobil 2
#32 Rashmi Kumar Luminus Devices 2
#32 Saurabh Mittal The Mitre 2
#32 Neehar Shrikant Kulkarni Sprint Spectrum 2
#32 Arun Manroa 2
#32 Gregory Malone Abl Ip Holding 2
#32 John Christopher Deriso Skyworks Solutions 2
#32 Bryan Fearson Capital One Services 2
#32 Girish B. Verma IBM 2
#32 William A. Llorens 2
#32 Douglas Earl Dyer Ideal Innovations 2
#32 Sean Christopher Timm Aol 2
#32 Denis Phillips Verisign 2
#32 Mitra Derakhshan Align Technology 2
#32 Jeffrey J. Chiang Columbia University 2
#32 Cameron Jeoffrey Wilks IBM 2
#32 Tomofumi Okubo Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co. 2
#32 Shreyas SUBRAMANIAN 2

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