Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Silver Spring, MD ranks #563 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 272 patents from 166 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Silver Spring, MD include Disney, Kofax, Capital One Services. That works out to 3.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 166 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Eric C. Haseltine Disney 10
2 Jan W. Amtrup Kofax 8
3 Timur Sherif Capital One Services 7
#4 Bryant Yee Capital One Services 6
#5 Hung-Chun Lin National Chiao Tung University 5
#5 Daniel Hakim Trx Systems 5
#5 Shahid N. Shah Netspective Communications 5
#8 Alan Neuhauser The Nielsen Company (Us) 4
#8 Bryan A. Cook Idhl Holdings 4
#8 Robert S. Howell 4
#8 David Goldschlag Mcafee 4
#8 Sudersan M. Tuladhar United Therapeutics 4
#8 Megan O'Connell U.S. Patent Innovations 4
#14 Marci Schopf Unknown 3
#14 Ursula Buchholz The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 3
#14 Oney Soykal US Navy 3
#14 Samir N. Khleif Augusta University Research Institute 3
#14 Barry M. Graham IBM 3
#14 Sridhar Krishna Rabindran Pfizer 3
#14 K. Reinhard Radermacher University Of Maryland, College Park 3
#14 Lawrence Edward Weinstein Johnson & Johnson 3
#14 David Berman IBM 3
#14 Gregory J. Hiemenz Innovital 3
#14 Kenneth A. Jacobson US Dept of Health & Human Services 3
#25 Daniel Bachenheimer Accenture Global Solutions Limited 2
#25 Jiajun XU Institute Of Optics And Electronics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences 2
#25 John Kenyon Hughes Network Systems 2
#25 Mark Allan Chevillet Meta 2
#25 Lawrence Edward Kagemann University Of Pittsburgh 2
#25 Ryan Mark Speers Ionic Security 2
#25 Zhangshi Liu U.S. Patent Innovations 2
#25 Murat V. Kalayoglu Topokine Therapeutics 2
#25 Ivan C. Lee US Army 2
#25 James Mond Biosynexus Incorporated 2
#25 Noriaki Tatsumi Capital One Services 2
#25 Dawn E. Gundersen-Rindal USDA 2
#25 Jeffrey M. Sieracki Medtronic 2
#25 Koichiro Takamizawa Smartsky Networks 2
#25 Christopher C. Broder Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine 2
#25 Katherine L. Radtke University Of Maryland, Baltimore 2
#25 David von Vistauxx 2
#25 Manfred Wuttig University Of Maryland 2
#25 Jed A. Hartings University Of Cincinnati 2
#25 Lucy A. Ward Bavarian Nordic A/S 2
#25 Thomas Chen Rca 2
#25 Eric J. Stewart 2
#25 Aditya Shanghavi U.S. Patent Innovations 2
#25 Joseph Siegrist Art & Tech Co. 2
#25 Jeffrey S. Lin The Johns Hopkins University 2
#25 CHARLES J. BIEBERICH University Of Maryland, Baltimore 2

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