Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Manassas, VA ranks #1,326 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 105 patents from 63 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Manassas, VA include IBM, Aurora Flight Sciences, Trimble Navigation Limited. That works out to 2.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 63 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jeb R. Linton IBM 16
2 James D. Paduano Aurora Flight Sciences 9
3 Daniel Cottrell Aurora Flight Sciences 4
#4 Amanda Kaufman Aurora Flight Sciences 3
#5 Barton W. Emanuel IBM 2
#5 Michael Albright Trimble Navigation Limited 2
#5 Rick White Planet Bingo 2
#5 Yuntao Wu George Mason University 2
#5 John Merk Aurora Flight Sciences 2
#5 Wesley E. George, IV Time Warner Cable 2
#5 Lee Madsen, II Isothrive 2
#5 Daniel O'Donnell Adobe 2
#5 James Peverill Aurora Flight Sciences 2
#5 Boris Abramov Aurora Flight Sciences 2
#5 Kevin Uleck Aurora Flight Sciences 2
#5 Matthew Kirleis Aurora Flight Sciences 2
#5 Cohava Gelber Serpin Pharma 2
#5 Evangelos Livieratos Aurora Flight Sciences 2
#19 Theodor Hoffer-Schaefer Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 Brian A. Saari Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 1
#19 Marla J. Lassa Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 1
#19 David J Braidich US Army 1
#19 Wayne P. Stilwell 1
#19 Donald Rogers Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 Diana Siegel 1
#19 Sugirtha Krishnamurthy IBM 1
#19 Jian Long Tian Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 Abraham Oonnoonny Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 John J. Smith Echo360 1
#19 Yajing Fu George Mason University 1
#19 Jonathan Grohs Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 Gilbert Lewis Crouse, JR. Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 Jeffrey Norton Relign 1
#19 Garrett Steven Hennig Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 Andrew Musto Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 Fabrice Kunzi Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 Junting Liu-Norrod Micron 1
#19 John W. Rapp Lockheed Martin 1
#19 Cody Rhea 1
#19 Ishwar Ryan Maheepat Amazon 1
#19 Daniel Uhlig Meta 1
#19 Worthington White 1
#19 Andrew Kehlenbeck Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 Syed Arshad Mahmood Shah 1
#19 R Paul McGough Qwyit 1
#19 Nathan Varney Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 John W. Brown United States Postal Service 1
#19 Jean-Charles Lede Aurora Flight Sciences 1
#19 Exus D. Altimus Unknown 1
#19 Kevin Apperson 1

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