Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sterling, VA ranks #1,284 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 109 patents from 66 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sterling, VA include Commscope Technologies, Juniper Networks, Sassy Woof. That works out to 3.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 66 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Khalid W. Al-Mufti Commscope Technologies 6
1 Ronald Bonica Juniper Networks 6
1 Ariful Hannan Commscope Technologies 6
#4 Christine N. Chang Sassy Woof 4
#4 Patrick Harders 4
#6 Robert D. Pierce US Air Force 3
#6 Brian Pugh Comscore 3
#6 Dave Conger Alarm.Com Incorporated 3
#9 Warren Scott Wainner Cisco 2
#9 Pradyumna Kannan RTX (Raytheon) 2
#9 Bret Jutras Alarm.Com Incorporated 2
#9 Loren Looger Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2
#9 Niem Dang Time Warner Cable 2
#9 Daniel Flynn AT&T 2
#9 David Conger Objectvideo Labs 2
#9 Christian Cantrell Adobe 2
#9 Michael Foster Honeywell 2
#9 Gary C. Gardner Fornetix 2
#9 Nicholas Dale The University Of Warwick 2
#9 Timothee Lionnet Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2
#9 Kevin J. Arunski Emc Ip Holding Company 2
#9 Li Yu Avigilon Fortress 2
#9 Steven Lawver US Army 2
#9 Craig Thomas Hill Cisco 2
#25 Jennifer Doughty Alarm.Com Incorporated 1
#25 Wisam Yaghi Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) 1
#25 Ali Yaghoobi 1
#25 Mohammed Abdul Majid Aol 1
#25 Mark D. Carney Verizon 1
#25 William Salusky Aol 1
#25 Douglas E. Rogers Echo360 1
#25 Sergey E. Semichev Capital One Services 1
#25 Mladen Barbic Caltech 1
#25 Arturo Chang Sassy Woof 1
#25 Nima Akhlaghi George Mason University 1
#25 Padmavati Chitrapu Neustar 1
#25 Chad Thomas Green The Lighted Lantern 1
#25 Rajesh Sonak Comcast 1
#25 Dalton Pont Coresyte 1
#25 Mohammad Ghalambor Dezfuli 1
#25 Charles W. K. Gritton Hillcrest Laboratories 1
#25 Christopher Armstrong Aol 1
#25 David Klein Dhk Storage 1
#25 Paras Goda Sestra Systems 1
#25 Deborah Boles Canon 1
#25 Michael Coupet 1
#25 Anthony Mines 1
#25 Yuanlin Huang 1
#25 Adam Clark Visa 1
#25 James Gutter 1

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