Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Silver Spring, MD ranks #701 worldwide for total patents filed in 2025, with 177 patents from 111 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Silver Spring, MD include Capital One Services, Vorbeck Materials, Ionq. That works out to 2.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 111 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Bryant Yee Capital One Services 15
2 James Turney Vorbeck Materials 8
3 Nathan D. Wolfe Capital One Services 5
3 Jonathan Albert MIZRAHI Ionq 5
#5 Kevin Aroom University Of Texas System 4
#5 Jérôme Lebleu 4
#5 Timur Sherif Capital One Services 4
#8 Michael W. Hicks Amazon 3
#8 Ming Li 3
#10 Shahid N. Shah Netspective Communications 2
#10 Carl Stevens Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 2
#10 Darin J. Sharar US Army 2
#10 Yil-Bong Kim Enig Associates 2
#10 Howard Gruenspecht 2
#10 Jan W. Amtrup Kofax 2
#10 Adam H. Halperin Ast & Science 2
#10 Mustafa Al-Adhami University Of Maryland, Baltimore 2
#10 Jeffrey M. Sieracki Medtronic 2
#10 Marc Neubauer Volkswagen 2
#10 Samir N. Khleif Augusta University Research Institute 2
#10 Amitai Bin-Nun Motional Ad 2
#10 Nandi O. Leslie RTX (Raytheon) 2
#10 Stephan Schlamminger US Dept of Commerce 2
#10 Ionel Petrus Smithgroup Companies 2
#10 Kenneth A. Jacobson US Dept of Health & Human Services 2
#10 Samuel Goldman University Of Western Ontario 2
#10 Peter Hague Wadeson Black & Decker 2
#10 John Kenyon Hughes Network Systems 2
#10 Amit Banerjee Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#10 Cristian Libanati W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 2
#10 Joseph Rabin University Of Maryland, Baltimore 2
#10 Nisan SIEGEL Celloptic 2
#10 Jan L. Allen US Army 2
#34 Yohannes Tesfai Cognio 1
#34 Daniel Deegan 1
#34 John P. Marino US Dept of Commerce 1
#34 D. T. Le Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 1
#34 Ursula Buchholz The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#34 Sekar Kulandaivel Robert Bosch Gmbh 1
#34 Mena Schiano Lo Moriello Osiris Therapeutics 1
#34 Robert K. Ernst University Of Maryland, Baltimore 1
#34 Jeffrey C. Owrutsky US Air Force 1
#34 Michael Lasky 1
#34 James K. Johnson The Johns Hopkins University 1
#34 Joanna Chen Capital One Services 1
#34 Lawrence Blas Perez Novartis Ag 1
#34 Stephen R. Schmidt W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 1
#34 Lina RONCANCIO Discovery Communications 1
#34 Cara Weikel Capital One Services 1
#34 Brendan M. Hanrahan US Army 1

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