Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Herndon, VA ranks #391 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 366 patents from 136 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Herndon, VA include Ofinno, Alarm.Com Incorporated, Amazon. That works out to 14.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 136 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hua Zhou Ofinno 62
2 Ali Cagatay Cirik Ofinno 35
3 Kai Xu Ofinno 31
#4 Weihua Qiao Ofinno 26
#5 David James Hutz Alarm.Com Incorporated 17
#6 Kevin Christopher Miller Amazon 13
#7 Robert Nathan Picardi Alarm.Com Incorporated 6
#8 Robert L. Cantrell Walmart Apollo 5
#9 Anjaneya S. Kovvali ExxonMobil 4
#9 Neehar Shrikant Kulkarni Sprint Spectrum 4
#9 Douglas Earl Dyer Ideal Innovations 4
#9 Mitra Derakhshan Align Technology 4
#9 Gaurang Bhatt Capital One Services 4
#14 Neha Goel Qualcomm 3
#14 Robert Eric Fitzgerald Amazon 3
#14 Rashmi Kumar Luminus Devices 3
#17 Mayowa Aregbesola Commscope Technologies 2
#17 Venkata Lakshmana Murthy Varahabhotla Juniper Networks 2
#17 Arun Manroa Time Warner Cable 2
#17 Sriram Sharma Somos 2
#17 Ronald Hirsch Edge2020 2
#17 Pallavi Ekaa Desai Capital One Services 2
#17 Chris Roosenraad Time Warner Cable 2
#17 David A. Stenger US Air Force 2
#17 Kamil Ince Time Warner Cable 2
#17 Sivanesan Dakshanamurthy Georgetown University 2
#17 Maheswaran Vijayakumar Sprint Spectrum 2
#17 Harriet DuBois Time Warner Cable 2
#17 Sathyanarayanan Raghunathan Sprint Spectrum 2
#17 Suresh Majjara Sprint Spectrum 2
#17 Yunxian Zhou Objectvideo Labs 2
#17 Joseph Ellena T-Worx Holdings 2
#17 Pierre Mallett, III Centripetal Networks 2
#17 Aleksander Drozdetski Cirkul 2
#17 William A. Llorens 2
#17 Girish B. Verma IBM 2
#17 Paul John Tillotson Amazon 2
#17 Steven Preston Lightner Norum Amazon 2
#39 Dongping Liang Microstrategy Incorporated 1
#39 Robert H. Chase Meridianlink 1
#39 Himaanshu Gupta Here Global B.V. 1
#39 Abhishek Singh Michigan State University 1
#39 Sean Christopher Timm Aol 1
#39 Alexander Franco Meta 1
#39 Prabhat Kumar Pandey Microsoft 1
#39 Andrew H. Tran Blackbird Technologies 1
#39 Stoyan Jeliazkov Genesic Semiconductor 1
#39 Leo T. Craig Mediamath 1
#39 Bryan Fearson Capital One Services 1
#39 Edward Van Keuren Georgetown University 1

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