Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gaithersburg, MD ranks #445 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 320 patents from 221 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gaithersburg, MD include Amazon, Hughes Network Systems, Medimmune Limited. That works out to 4.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 221 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael V. Recker Amazon 13
2 Satyajit Roy Hughes Network Systems 6
3 Bret Sellman Medimmune Limited 5
#4 Nicole Kallewaard-Lelay Medimmune Limited 4
#4 Changshou Gao Medimmune Limited 4
#4 Vikas Bhatia Toyota 4
#4 Muralidharan Balasubramanian Capital One Services 4
#4 Melissa Damschroder Medimmune Limited 4
#9 John L. Magnani Glycomimetics 3
#9 Christopher E. Whitridge IBM 3
#9 YuYe J. Tong Georgetown University 3
#9 Christine Tkaczyk Medimmune Limited 3
#9 Khalida Shamim Florida State University 3
#9 Neil S. Davey Unknown 3
#9 Xiaoli Jiang Tencent 3
#9 Leung M. Shiu United States Postal Service 3
#9 Dmitry Samarsky Rxi Pharmaceuticals 3
#9 Edward Hunter Digital Asset Capital 3
#19 Craig J. Thomas The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#19 Jeffrey Dan STEPHENS Kmt Waterjet Systems 2
#19 Elaine M. HURT Medimmune Limited 2
#19 David Tice Medimmune Limited 2
#19 David A. Routenberg Prognosys Biosciences 2
#19 Edward A. Richley Xerox 2
#19 Nazzareno Dimasi Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Qun Du Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Ebony Benjamin Humabs Biomed Sa 2
#19 Virgil Johnson, Jr. Lexmark International 2
#19 Leslie Wachter Humabs Biomed Sa 2
#19 Partha S. Chowdhury Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Peter Hou Hughes Network Systems 2
#19 Godfrey Jonah Anderson Rainey Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Anne Rachel Schneider Robotic Research 2
#19 Cuihua Gao Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Koustubh Ranade Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Jamese Hilliard Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Josephine Mary McAuliffe Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Mehrdad Badie Thales Defense & Security 2
#19 Yibin Cai University Of Maryland, College Park 2
#19 Xiaodong Xiao Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Shujie Hou Georgetown University 2
#19 Andrew C. NYBORG Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Sonya Davey Unknown 2
#19 Ronald Herbst Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Vladimir N. Noskov Codex Dna 2
#19 Antonio Digiandomenico Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Matthew Gilbride Oshkosh 2
#19 Charles K. STOVER Medimmune Limited 2
#19 Charles K. Stover Humabs Biomed Sa 2
#19 Juan Jose Marugan The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2

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