Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Silver Spring, MD ranks #638 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 216 patents from 145 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Silver Spring, MD include Capital One Services, Hughes Network Systems, Ionic Security. That works out to 2.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 145 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Bryant Yee Capital One Services 10
2 Timur Sherif Capital One Services 7
3 John Kenyon Hughes Network Systems 5
#4 Ryan Mark Speers Ionic Security 4
#4 Eric C. Haseltine Disney 4
#4 Ursula Buchholz The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 4
#4 George Mon US Army 4
#4 David Berman IBM 4
#4 Shahid N. Shah Netspective Communications 4
#4 Dilanka Theshan Dharmasena People Center 4
#4 Koichiro Takamizawa Smartsky Networks 4
#12 Jan W. Amtrup Kofax 3
#12 Hung-Chun Lin National Chiao Tung University 3
#12 Makarand Paranjape Georgetown University 3
#12 David Goldschlag Mcafee 3
#12 Mark Allan Chevillet Meta 3
#12 Charles Gregory Lampe Verint Americas 3
#18 Steven Kenneth Pollack Carbon 2
#18 Scott A. Piper IBM 2
#18 Frank Modica Maxcyte 2
#18 Matthew J. Bradley Microvention 2
#18 Donald M. Cornwell, Jr. Corvis 2
#18 Carl Stevens Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 2
#18 Stephen T. Ahlers Microvention 2
#18 Jonathan Albert MIZRAHI Ionq 2
#18 Justin Opfermann Children'S National Medical Center 2
#18 Maxim Zalalutdinov Cornell Research Foundation 2
#18 Jesse C. Bunch Unknown 2
#18 Barry M. Graham IBM 2
#18 Christopher C. Broder Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine 2
#18 Joseph Rabin University Of Maryland, Baltimore 2
#18 Stephen R. Schmidt W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 2
#18 Megan O'Connell U.S. Patent Innovations 2
#34 Richard E. Pavek Rfnav 1
#34 James Turney Vorbeck Materials 1
#34 Sudersan M. Tuladhar United Therapeutics 1
#34 Brian Michael Vohaska Ionic Security 1
#34 Robert E. Pellenbarg US Air Force 1
#34 David Pollak Studiengesellschaft Kohle Ggmbh 1
#34 Shruti Wigh U.S. Patent Innovations 1
#34 Jason Zsak Canon 1
#34 David von Vistauxx 1
#34 Sheetij Dutta US Army 1
#34 James K. Johnson The Johns Hopkins University 1
#34 John P. Marino US Dept of Commerce 1
#34 James Kirunda Kakaire 1
#34 Lawrence Blas Perez Novartis Ag 1
#34 Kathryn Matthias The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#34 Shouvanik Mustafi NASA 1
#34 John E. Gillespie, IV Cimpress Schweiz Gmbh 1

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