Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Laurel, MD ranks #2,121 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 59 patents from 43 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Laurel, MD include Laitram, L.L.C., IBM, Cadence Design Systems. That works out to 2.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–43 of 43 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Matthew L. Fourney Laitram, L.L.C. 4
1 Yan Han IBM 4
3 Thomas Evan Wilson Cadence Design Systems 3
#4 Judith Gulten Moca Kraft Foods Group Brands 2
#4 Meet Ochhavlal Shah 2
#4 Merida Miller Under Armour 2
#4 Minh Nguyen Ciena 2
#4 Jacques Ravel University Of Maryland, Baltimore 2
#4 Dakai Jin Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) Co. 2
#4 Xiaozhong He Honeywell 2
#4 Hisataka Kobayashi The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#12 Edward E. Purich 1
#12 William G. DeMore Cooltech 1
#12 Melani Solomon University Of Maryland, College Park 1
#12 Jeffrey R. Deschamps US Navy 1
#12 Emmanuel Matthews Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 1
#12 Allen P. Davis USDA 1
#12 Amanda C. Malone The Johns Hopkins University 1
#12 Stephen G. Wargo Laitram, L.L.C. 1
#12 Michael Hinton LG 1
#12 Michelle LeRoux Williams Nuvasive 1
#12 Randall Ellington 1
#12 Mark Creppy 1
#12 Martin Brokner Christiansen 1
#12 Kevin C. Cox US Army 1
#12 Mahmooda Sultana 1
#12 Babak Saboury Sichani Siemens Healthcare Limited 1
#12 Asheer Malhotra Mcafee 1
#12 Prasanjeet Khuntia Infinera 1
#12 Michael D. Jensen Chevron 1
#12 Kenji Numata Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 1
#12 Hilda Emeruwa 1
#12 Stephen Williams Cadence Design Systems 1
#12 Tyish S. Hall Brown Howard University 1
#12 John L. Schnase NASA 1
#12 Haley Marie Boyd GE 1
#12 Jung H. Yoon 1
#12 Thomas Comberiate RTX (Raytheon) 1
#12 Michele O'Neill 1
#12 Maelis Mittig 1
#12 Joshua B. Broadwater The Johns Hopkins University 1
#12 Michael J. BARNARD Enig Associates 1
#12 Ali M. Darwish US Army 1

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