Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Silver Spring, MD ranks #550 worldwide for total patents filed in 2024, with 260 patents from 160 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Silver Spring, MD include Capital One Services, The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services, Smartsky Networks. That works out to 3.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 160 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Bryant Yee Capital One Services 32
2 Timur Sherif Capital One Services 7
3 Ursula Buchholz The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 6
#4 Koichiro Takamizawa Smartsky Networks 5
#5 Dilanka Theshan Dharmasena People Center 4
#5 Bryan A. Cook Idhl Holdings 4
#5 Shahid N. Shah Netspective Communications 4
#8 Carl Stevens Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 3
#8 Howard Gruenspecht 3
#8 Jeffrey M. Sieracki Medtronic 3
#8 Jonathan Albert MIZRAHI Ionq 3
#8 Adam H. Halperin Ast & Science 3
#8 Samir N. Khleif Augusta University Research Institute 3
#8 Jonathan Schneck The Johns Hopkins University 3
#8 Christian Lee Doyle Kit Check 3
#8 George Mon US Army 3
#8 Nathan D. Wolfe Capital One Services 3
#8 Frank Modica Maxcyte 3
#19 Susan Elizabeth Shoaf Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. 2
#19 Preston Blay Baltimore Aircoil Company 2
#19 David Goldschlag Mcafee 2
#19 Ryan Mark Speers Ionic Security 2
#19 Ning Zeng Molex 2
#19 De-Hao Tsai National Tsing Hua University 2
#19 Jarrod CLIFT Discovery Communications 2
#19 Lawrence Blas Perez Novartis Ag 2
#19 Sekar Kulandaivel Robert Bosch Gmbh 2
#19 Nisan SIEGEL Celloptic 2
#19 James Turney Vorbeck Materials 2
#19 Lisa SEETO Discovery Communications 2
#19 Cara Weikel Capital One Services 2
#19 Christopher B. Spicer Laitram, L.L.C. 2
#19 Ashley Dakota ROSS Capital One Services 2
#19 Chris GOODACRE Discovery Communications 2
#19 Melissa HUNFALVAY Righteye 2
#19 Justin Opfermann Children'S National Medical Center 2
#19 Hongzhong Zhou Comcast 2
#19 Evelyne Tzoukermann Comcast 2
#19 Paul N. Barnes US Air Force 2
#19 Jan W. Amtrup Kofax 2
#19 Dennis KILLINGSWORTH Discovery Communications 2
#42 Vincent Dussupt 1
#42 Nancy Wesensten US Army 1
#42 Hung-Chun Lin National Chiao Tung University 1
#42 Marc Neubauer Volkswagen 1
#42 Barry M. Graham IBM 1
#42 Christophe Marchand The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#42 Natalia I. Ossetrova Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine 1
#42 Murat V. Kalayoglu Topokine Therapeutics 1
#42 Daniel Hakim Trx Systems 1

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