Vail, AZ ranks #2,983 worldwide for total patents filed in 2025, with 35 patents from 22 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Vail, AZ include Rain Bird, IBM, Texas Instruments. That works out to 2.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.
Showing 1–22 of 22 inventors
| Rank ↑ | Inventor ↕ | Primary Company ↕ | Patents ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael J. Millius | Rain Bird | 5 |
| 2 | Joseph W. Dain | IBM | 4 |
| 3 | Dimitar T. Trifonov | Texas Instruments | 3 |
| #4 | Alan Camyre | Tusimple | 2 |
| #4 | Wade Martin Poteet | Cdex | 2 |
| #4 | Gregory E. McBride | IBM | 2 |
| #4 | Igor P. Kovalev | Sion Power | 2 |
| #8 | Andrew Thompson | — | 1 |
| #8 | Christopher D. Nicholas | Language Technologies | 1 |
| #8 | Richard M. Forrest | — | 1 |
| #8 | David H. F. Harper | IBM | 1 |
| #8 | Timothy F. O'Brien | Lear Automotive Dearborn | 1 |
| #8 | Brayden Peery | RTX (Raytheon) | 1 |
| #8 | David A. Brettell | IBM | 1 |
| #8 | Brian A. Gin | RTX (Raytheon) | 1 |
| #8 | Sarah Lyons | AT&T | 1 |
| #8 | David Warren Ribblett | Sion Power | 1 |
| #8 | Nathan Albrand Jones | RTX (Raytheon) | 1 |
| #8 | Carl J. Wham | RTX (Raytheon) | 1 |
| #8 | Tyler James Archer | Texas Instruments | 1 |
| #8 | Leo Pedlow | Sony | 1 |
| #8 | Emile M. Szlemko | RTX (Raytheon) | 1 |
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