Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Columbia, MD ranks #642 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 219 patents from 139 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Columbia, MD include Alarm.Com Incorporated, Newport Fab, Becton, Dickinson And. That works out to 2.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 139 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Donald Gerard Madden Alarm.Com Incorporated 19
2 Nabil El-Hinnawy Newport Fab 16
3 Michael T. VanSickler Becton, Dickinson And 6
#4 Benjamin Aaron Miller Sinclair Broadcast Group 4
#4 Feng Gu W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 4
#4 Bin Jia IBM 4
#4 Shiping Liu Dalian Institute Of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences 4
#4 Geoffrey S. Howard Black & Decker 4
#4 Andre Tai Nguyen Booz Allen Hamilton 4
#10 Chunling Zhao Dlhbowles 3
#10 Erin M. Skoda University Of Pittsburgh 3
#10 Han-Zhong Zhang Cytovia 3
#10 Paul A. R. Frank IBM 3
#10 Daniel Kelly Amazon 3
#15 Malinda PEEPLES Welldoc 2
#15 Sadhana Gupta The Nielsen Company (Us) 2
#15 Ngeh J. Toyang University Of Maryland, Baltimore 2
#15 James Fisch 2
#15 Michael Petersen Honeywell 2
#15 Steve Orndorff University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 2
#15 Michael M. Fitelson 2
#15 Evan Hartranft Dlhbowles 2
#15 Matthew Bradley Blockwise Engineering 2
#15 Leslie Tung The Johns Hopkins University 2
#15 Don A. Harris Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 2
#15 Sandeep Antony Audacious Inquiry 2
#15 Jing Zhong Huazhong University Of Science And Technology 2
#15 Alla Danilkovitch Osiris Therapeutics 2
#29 Chhinder P. Sodhi University Of Pittsburgh 1
#29 Spencer A. Langevin The Johns Hopkins University 1
#29 Heidi E. Warriner The Johns Hopkins University 1
#29 Otho Boone Draeger Medical Infant Care 1
#29 James Smythe 1
#29 Laura J. Glendenning The Johns Hopkins University 1
#29 Yisong Wang The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#29 Mark C. Emerick Emory University 1
#29 Charles R. Eddy, Jr. US Air Force 1
#29 Kimberly S. Lewers USDA 1
#29 Marc S. Litz US Army 1
#29 David R. Zaret The Johns Hopkins University 1
#29 Jingru Zhang Corning Optical Communications 1
#29 James Casey Lippmeier Dsm Ip Assets B.V. 1
#29 Thomas Michael DuBois Salesforce 1
#29 Michelle DUGAS Welldoc 1
#29 Ali Uneri The Johns Hopkins University 1
#29 Kirk J. Griffin Access Solutions 1
#29 Brian Patrick Holmstock 1
#29 Lance Oh Corporation For National Research Initiatives 1
#29 Seppo J. Lehtonen The Johns Hopkins University 1
#29 Felix N. Castellano North Carolina State University 1

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