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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Great Falls, VA ranks #1,151 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 125 patents from 42 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Great Falls, VA include Capital One Services, IBM, Avigilon Fortress. That works out to 7.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–42 of 42 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael Mossoba Capital One Services 62
2 Michael E. Alexander IBM 7
3 Dmitri Maslov IBM 4
3 Kunal Arora Capital One Services 4
#5 Zhong Zhang Avigilon Fortress 3
#6 Dennis William Groseclose Transvoyant 2
#6 Anatoley T. Zheleznyak Digital Signal 2
#6 Tell Allen Gates Edge2020 2
#6 Michael Kaczmarek Verisign 2
#6 Edmund J. Fish Aol 2
#6 Harrison Robert Murphy Kickball Concepts 2
#6 Amit Pathania Dish Wireless L.L.C. 2
#6 Masoud Olfat Clearwire Ip Holdings L.L.C. 2
#14 Mark O'Brien Adobe 1
#14 Elaine S. Jaffe Universitat De Barcelona 1
#14 Brian Golden Gridpoint 1
#14 Gregory Bovee IBM 1
#14 Diana S. Hage 1
#14 Jingbin Zhang Microstrategy Incorporated 1
#14 Yazdan Shirvany Capital One Services 1
#14 Jintao JIANG 1
#14 W. Karl Renner Aol 1
#14 Nahid Sidki Auris Health 1
#14 Kenneth Siu-Kin Chow 1
#14 Kendall Grant Clark Stardog Union 1
#14 Douglass J. Britt 1
#14 Geoff Emmer The Mitre 1
#14 Xiaoyin Yang Microstrategy Incorporated 1
#14 Ian Charles Starnes Genghiscomm Holdings 1
#14 William Frischling Meta 1
#14 Sarah Photowat Unknown 1
#14 Charlton Gardiner AT&T 1
#14 Helen Chung Samsara 1
#14 Justin Andrew Bahr 1
#14 Kevin G. Cherven Emergency Alert Solutions Group 1
#14 Daniel J. Nevrivy 1
#14 Benjamin Reyes Microstrategy Incorporated 1
#14 Brian M. Lyman Emergency Alert Solutions Group 1
#14 Christopher Jordan Mcafee 1
#14 Larry L. Lu Aol 1
#14 John W. Smith The Procter & Gamble 1
#14 Richard Lepkowicz 1

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