Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ashburn, VA ranks #509 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 270 patents from 157 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ashburn, VA include Sprint Spectrum, US Air Force, AT&T. That works out to 5.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 157 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Sanghoon Sung Sprint Spectrum 13
2 Jasbinder S. Sanghera US Air Force 11
3 Daniel Vivanco AT&T 10
#4 Lachlan A. Maxwell Verizon 8
#5 Robert T. Perry Capital One Services 7
#5 Ashish Sardesai Verizon 7
#7 George William Harter, III Sprint Communications 5
#7 Kristian Kai Johns Sprint Spectrum 5
#7 Dario John Berini Apple 5
#7 Amrit Kumar Chandra Sprint Spectrum 5
#11 Minho Song T-Mobile Innovations 4
#11 Aravind Chamarti Corning Optical Communications 4
#11 Jeffrey Wilson Emc Ip Holding Company 4
#11 Suryanarayana A. Kalenahalli Commscope Technologies 4
#11 Sourabh Gupta Adobe 4
#11 Michael Craig Woolfe Fortinet 4
#17 Ghafran Abbas Vitalchat 3
#17 Christoph Jahr Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security America 3
#17 Elinna Shek IBM 3
#17 Mustafa Emin Sahin Qualcomm 3
#17 Saied Kazeminejad Sprint Spectrum 3
#17 Seng Chai Gan Sprint Communications 3
#23 Bryce Barrand Aol 2
#23 Pinal Tailor Sprint Spectrum 2
#23 Nigel McGee Amazon 2
#23 Shyam S. Bayya US Air Force 2
#23 William Maroulis Oracle 2
#23 Robert Dianda AT&T 2
#23 Kenneth Jeffrey Hayworth Harvard University 2
#23 Jonathan King Mcafee 2
#23 Saivivek Thiyagarajan Verizon 2
#23 Cynthia Lee Chambers Imdss Solutions 2
#23 Ruben Nieves Broadcom 2
#23 Pradosh Sivadoss Capital One Services 2
#23 Oleksii Surdu Gbs Laboratories 2
#23 John Carl Anderson Accenture Global Solutions Limited 2
#23 Patrick F. Sack Oracle 2
#23 Chirag D. Parikh Cummins Filtration Ip 2
#23 Daniel P. Broderick Blackboiler 2
#40 Asghar Hasan T-Mobile Innovations 1
#40 Venkat Yashwanth Gunapati Capital One Services 1
#40 Lalitha Veeramachaneni Somos 1
#40 Matthew J. Niermann Schnabel Foundation 1
#40 Gary Callsen T-Worx Holdings 1
#40 Patrick Kane Verisign 1
#40 Ming Xiong Federal Home Loan Mortgage 1
#40 Umesh S. Chhatre Oath 1
#40 Steven Andrew Fink Oath 1
#40 Regu Ramoo Altair Engineering 1
#40 Bryan Knauss Lexisnexis Risk Solutions Fl 1

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