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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Vail, AZ ranks #1,418 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 105 patents from 33 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Vail, AZ include IBM, Texas Instruments, Sion Power. That works out to 7.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–33 of 33 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gregory E. McBride IBM 27
2 Christopher B. Moore IBM 12
3 Joseph W. Dain IBM 11
#4 David H. F. Harper IBM 8
#5 Jason L. Peipelman IBM 6
#6 Howard N. Martin IBM 5
#7 Dimitar T. Trifonov Texas Instruments 4
#8 George G. Zamora IBM 3
#8 Igor P. Kovalev Sion Power 3
#10 Christopher D. Nicholas Language Technologies 2
#10 Matthew S. Prucinsky Rain Bird 2
#12 John O. Crawford RTX (Raytheon) 1
#12 Nathan Henderson 3Com 1
#12 Timothy Shriver Salutaris Medical Devices 1
#12 Raymond Joseph Ochotorena, Jr. Texas Instruments 1
#12 Errol J. Calder IBM 1
#12 Ronald F. Cormier, Jr. Texas Instruments 1
#12 Jennifer S. Shioya IBM 1
#12 Brian Jeffrey Mueller Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems Limited 1
#12 Sarah Lyons AT&T 1
#12 Thomas J. Amber IBM 1
#12 Preston A. Carpenter IBM 1
#12 Russell Vincent Brewer Basf Se 1
#12 Michael P. Copeland IBM 1
#12 Peter M. Niess Rain Bird 1
#12 David Warren Ribblett Sion Power 1
#12 Michael G. Sisco IBM 1
#12 Michael P. Groover IBM 1
#12 Angel E. Delgado IBM 1
#12 Leo Pedlow Sony 1
#12 Eric J. Harris IBM 1
#12 Alan Camyre Tusimple 1
#12 Nicholas P. Cicchini RTX (Raytheon) 1

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