Maryland — Patent Inventors 2020

Maryland ranks #21 among US states for total patents filed in 2020, with 7,024 patents from 4,116 inventors across 240 cities. On a per-capita basis that is 1.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a standard benchmark for comparing state-level R&D intensity.

Top Cities in Maryland 2020

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Baltimore, MD	1,209	655
#2	Rockville, MD	498	272
#3	Gaithersburg, MD	361	222
#4	Bethesda, MD	337	224
#5	Silver Spring, MD	272	166
#6	Columbia, MD	265	143
#7	Potomac, MD	263	146
#8	Ellicott City, MD	263	165
#9	Germantown, MD	255	132
#10	Frederick, MD	205	93
#11	Bel Air, MD	108	62
#12	Timonium, MD	100	63
#13	Annapolis, MD	94	69
#14	North Potomac, MD	92	52
#15	Chevy Chase Section Five, MD	89	17
#16	College Park, MD	77	54
#17	Laurel, MD	76	52
#18	Severna Park, MD	70	32
#19	Cockeysville, MD	61	43
#20	Towson, MD	57	41
#21	Elkton, MD	55	33
#22	Clarksburg, MD	53	27
#23	Clarksville, MD	52	37
#24	Greenbelt, MD	52	40
#25	Bowie, MD	51	32

Top Inventors in Maryland 2020

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Lisa Seacat DeLuca	Baltimore	Unstoppable Domains	83
2	Jeffrey RULE	Chevy Chase Section Five	Capital One Services	40
3	Nabil El-Hinnawy	Columbia	Newport Fab	38
#4	Kelley Anders	East New Market	IBM	35
#5	Gang Wang	Frederick	Google	33
#6	Charles E. Beller	Baltimore	IBM	24
#7	Dimiter S. Dimitrov	Frederick	The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services	18
#8	Michael V. Recker	Gaithersburg	Amazon	17
#9	Kenneth W. Kinzler	Baltimore	The Johns Hopkins University	15
#9	Donald Gerard Madden	Columbia	Alarm.Com Incorporated	15
#9	Bert Vogelstein	Baltimore	The Johns Hopkins University	15
#12	David McGrew	Poolesville	Cisco	13
#12	Wayne LUTZ	Fort Washington	Capital One Services	13
#14	Dwight Livingston	Fallston	Becton, Dickinson And	12
#14	David McAllister Bradley	Bel Air	Uatc	12
#14	Leslie S. Johnson	Travilah	Macrogenics	12
#14	James N. Kochenderfer	Bethesda	The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services	12
#14	Channasandra Ravishankar	Clarksburg	Hughes Network Systems	12
#19	Ronald C. Dzierwa	Baltimore	Digital Global Systems	11
#19	Daniel Carbajal	Severna Park	Digital Global Systems	11
#19	Andrew DeHennis	Germantown	Senseonics, Incorporated	11
#19	Justin X. Howe	Baltimore	Mastercard	11
#19	Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko	Baldwin	Black & Decker	11
#19	Justin Hanes	Baltimore	The Johns Hopkins University	11
#19	Satyajit Roy	Gaithersburg	Hughes Network Systems	11

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