Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ellicott City, MD ranks #620 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 225 patents from 145 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ellicott City, MD include Zest Labs, The Nielsen Company (Us), Machinesense. That works out to 3.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 145 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Thomas C. Reese Zest Labs 7
2 Vladimir Kuznetsov The Nielsen Company (Us) 6
2 Biplab Pal Machinesense 6
#4 Christopher Monroe University Of Maryland, College Park 5
#4 James Zinski Novatec 5
#6 Jay H. Hendricks US Dept of Commerce 4
#6 Anand Jain The Nielsen Company (Us) 4
#6 Pankaj J. Pasricha University Of Texas System 4
#6 Lai-Xi Wang University Of Maryland, Baltimore 4
#6 Boro Dropulic Lentigen Technology 4
#11 Joshua A. Strong 3
#11 Min Feng Microsoft 3
#11 Ryan H. Peloquin Black & Decker 3
#11 Paul Warren Behrens Dsm Ip Assets B.V. 3
#11 Aravind Srinivasan Broadcom 3
#11 Larry E. Steenhoek Axalta Coating Systems Ip Co. 3
#11 James W. Wieder 3
#11 Rengaswamy Srinivasan The Johns Hopkins University 3
#11 Kirk E. Apt Dsm Ip Assets B.V. 3
#11 Hanping Feng Google 3
#21 Sangeeta Ray The Johns Hopkins University 2
#21 Joseph Edmonds Morgan Stanley Services Group 2
#21 David W. Blodgett The Johns Hopkins University 2
#21 Robert M. Young 2
#21 Luis Diaz Duke University 2
#21 Paul Weedlun Milliken Research 2
#21 Soumyadipta Acharya The Johns Hopkins University 2
#21 Sunil Goraksha Patil Siemens Healthcare Limited 2
#21 Fu-Ming Hu University Of Maryland, Baltimore 2
#21 Ashish Nimgaonkar Glyscend 2
#21 Walter Roger Adocia 2
#21 Eduardo Luiggi Forcepoint 2
#21 Myeongseob Kim Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 2
#21 Guibin Chen The Usa, As Represented By The Secretary, Dept. Of Health And Human Services 2
#21 Yexun Wang Qiagen Sciences 2
#21 Harikrishna Tandri The Johns Hopkins University 2
#21 Ian M. White University Of Maryland, College Park 2
#21 Steven J. Phillips Black & Decker 2
#21 Mansur SHOMALI Welldoc 2
#21 Emad M. Boctor The Johns Hopkins University 2
#21 Andrew G. Singleton W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 2
#42 Xingde Li The Johns Hopkins University 1
#42 Andrey Jasiukaitis Pevco Systems International 1
#42 Steen Søndergaard Nissen Applied Biomimetic A/S 1
#42 Robin Scott Gray Unknown 1
#42 Ken Alfred Nagamatsu 1
#42 Radi Masri University Of Maryland, Baltimore 1
#42 Eissa Nick Asemani 1
#42 Yi Duan-Arnold Osiris Therapeutics 1
#42 Shawn Lupold The Johns Hopkins University 1

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