Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Silver Spring, MD ranks #527 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 259 patents from 167 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Silver Spring, MD include Capital One Services, The Nielsen Company (Us), Kofax. That works out to 3.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 167 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Bryant Yee Capital One Services 24
2 Alan Neuhauser The Nielsen Company (Us) 7
2 Timur Sherif Capital One Services 7
#4 Jan W. Amtrup Kofax 6
#5 Adam H. Halperin Ast & Science 5
#5 Shahid N. Shah Netspective Communications 5
#5 Ryan Mark Speers Ionic Security 5
#8 Dilanka Theshan Dharmasena People Center 4
#8 George Mon US Army 4
#10 Fikadu T. Dagefu US Army 3
#10 Frank Modica Maxcyte 3
#10 Yil-Bong Kim Enig Associates 3
#10 Glenn S. Tamkin NASA 3
#10 Koichiro Takamizawa Smartsky Networks 3
#15 Ionel Petrus Smithgroup Companies 2
#15 Buddika Sumanasena Jerome Canady Research Institute For Advanced Biological And Technological Sciences 2
#15 Jeffrey Bloom Ensco 2
#15 Noriaki Tatsumi Capital One Services 2
#15 Ksenia Sosnova University Of Maryland, College Park 2
#15 Adam L. Friedman US Air Force 2
#15 Mustafa Al-Adhami University Of Maryland, Baltimore 2
#15 Mark David Stiles US Dept of Commerce 2
#15 Matthew William Daniels US Dept of Commerce 2
#15 Kenneth A. Jacobson US Dept of Health & Human Services 2
#15 Benjamin Roy RTX (Raytheon) 2
#15 Michael J. Stoller Black & Decker 2
#15 Joshua Donald Montgomery Cellphire 2
#15 Bryan M. Blackburn Redox Power Systems 2
#15 Susan Elizabeth Shoaf Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. 2
#15 Yonatan Levinson Lonza 2
#15 David Goldschlag Mcafee 2
#15 Ursula Buchholz The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#15 Brian Michael Vohaska Ionic Security 2
#15 Eyal Bar-Kochba The Johns Hopkins University 2
#15 Christian Lee Doyle Kit Check 2
#15 Peter Lawrence Levin Amida Technology Solutions 2
#15 David Berman IBM 2
#15 Carl Stevens Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 2
#39 Michael Picciolo US Air Force 1
#39 Benjamin Frank John Martin Mead The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#39 Alasdair C. Steven US Dept of Health & Human Services 1
#39 Steven Russell Hook 1
#39 Elitza D. Voeva-Kolev 1
#39 Chaselynn M. Watters US Navy 1
#39 John B. Schutt NASA 1
#39 Justin P. Bobak US Navy 1
#39 Brendan Watters Rapid7 1
#39 Stephen Hernandez Parsons 1
#39 Cara Weikel Capital One Services 1
#39 Christopher B. Spicer Laitram, L.L.C. 1

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