Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Silver Spring, MD ranks #534 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 259 patents from 186 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Silver Spring, MD include Disney, Hughes Network Systems, IBM. That works out to 3.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 186 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Eric C. Haseltine Disney 9
2 John Kenyon Hughes Network Systems 5
2 Barry M. Graham IBM 5
2 Alan Neuhauser The Nielsen Company (Us) 5
#5 Shahid N. Shah Netspective Communications 4
#5 Bryant Yee Capital One Services 4
#5 Timur Sherif Capital One Services 4
#8 Nisan SIEGEL Celloptic 3
#8 Jack A. Stone, Jr. US Dept of Commerce 3
#8 Samir N. Khleif Augusta University Research Institute 3
#8 Jan W. Amtrup Kofax 3
#8 Jonathan Albert MIZRAHI Ionq 3
#8 Justin Opfermann Children'S National Medical Center 3
#8 Gregory J. Hiemenz Innovital 3
#8 Matthew DiLeo Keygene N.V. 3
#8 Ryan Mark Speers Ionic Security 3
#17 Robert M. Seng The Johns Hopkins University 2
#17 Jiajun XU Institute Of Optics And Electronics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences 2
#17 Daniel Bachenheimer Accenture Global Solutions Limited 2
#17 Andrew D'Souza Openet Telecom 2
#17 Christopher M. Jewell University Of Maryland, College Park 2
#17 David Goldschlag Mcafee 2
#17 Cristian Libanati W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 2
#17 David Berman IBM 2
#17 Amir Tamiz Alba Therapeutics 2
#17 Justin Bachorik Capital One Services 2
#17 Darin J. Sharar US Army 2
#17 Jason John Gorman US Dept of Commerce 2
#17 James Turney Vorbeck Materials 2
#17 Christian Lee Doyle Kit Check 2
#17 Ursula Buchholz The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#17 Sekar Kulandaivel Robert Bosch Gmbh 2
#17 James K. Johnson The Johns Hopkins University 2
#17 Lawrence Blas Perez Novartis Ag 2
#17 Melissa HUNFALVAY Righteye 2
#17 Kevin Aroom University Of Texas System 2
#17 Buddika Sumanasena Jerome Canady Research Institute For Advanced Biological And Technological Sciences 2
#17 Bryan A. Cook Idhl Holdings 2
#17 Mikhail Kotov US Air Force 2
#17 Ivan C. Lee US Army 2
#17 Koichiro Takamizawa Smartsky Networks 2
#17 Khaled ElWazeer Samsung 2
#43 Rachel B. Stonehirsch The Johns Hopkins University 1
#43 Kathryn Margaret Pendo Abl Ip Holding 1
#43 Daniel Liss 1
#43 Aaron Liss 1
#43 Ann Marie Knolhoff The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#43 Mohamad Omar Al Kalaa The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#43 Chia-Hung Yang US Air Force 1
#43 Vanessa D. Alphonse The Johns Hopkins University 1

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