Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Laurel, MD ranks #2,113 worldwide for total patents filed in 2024, with 61 patents from 41 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Laurel, MD include IBM, Laitram, L.L.C., Polk Audio. That works out to 2.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–41 of 41 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yan Han IBM 6
1 Matthew L. Fourney Laitram, L.L.C. 6
3 Scott Orth Polk Audio 3
3 Jeffrey R. Deschamps US Navy 3
3 John Joseph Glorioso, Jr. Nayya Health 3
3 Neal Pisenti Ionq 3
#7 Judith Gulten Moca Kraft Foods Group Brands 2
#7 Merida Miller Under Armour 2
#9 Alwin James 1
#9 Oleg A. Borodin US Army 1
#9 Roland Kamdem Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission 1
#9 Daniel W. Medeiros GE 1
#9 Andre L. Johnson Technoguard 1
#9 Olayinka Adetoye 1
#9 Prentiss Jermale Jones 1
#9 Olugbenga Erinle 1
#9 Kirk Mensah 1
#9 Ichiro Takeuchi University Of Maryland, College Park 1
#9 Yuhuang Wang University Of Maryland, College Park 1
#9 Jacques Ravel University Of Maryland, Baltimore 1
#9 Michael D. Jensen Chevron 1
#9 Joseph Stains University Of Maryland, Baltimore 1
#9 Chi-Hun Park University Of Maryland, College Park 1
#9 Kevin C. Cox US Army 1
#9 Jeffrey D. Kendall Earthway Products 1
#9 Abraham Rozental NVIDIA 1
#9 Thomas Evan Wilson Cadence Design Systems 1
#9 Donald C. Kauffman Honeywell 1
#9 Michelle LeRoux Williams Nuvasive 1
#9 Jessica Powell Davol 1
#9 Brittany Richman US Dept of Commerce 1
#9 Frank F. Kretschmer, Jr. US Air Force 1
#9 Kevin D. Osborn The Government Of The United States, As Represented By The Director, National Security Agency 1
#9 Lee S. Stearns The Johns Hopkins University 1
#9 Bayu Aji Wicaksono Genesys Cloud Services 1
#9 Melani Solomon University Of Maryland, College Park 1
#9 Tami L Ellinger The Government Of The United States Of America, As Represent By The Secretary Of The Navy 1
#9 Elizabeth A. Pogue The Johns Hopkins University 1
#9 Chris Dutrow Appbrilliance 1
#9 Cameron A. Gutgsell The Johns Hopkins University 1
#9 Abe Rozenthal NVIDIA 1

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