Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Arlington, VA ranks #379 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,277 patents from 1,838 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Arlington, VA include IBM, Pioneer (Corteva), Sprint Spectrum. That works out to 34.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,838 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Christopher J. Dawson IBM 292
2 William Andrew Wilson Pioneer (Corteva) 113
3 Nagi A. Mansour Sprint Spectrum 108
#4 Gregory J. Smith National Semiconductor 85
#5 Andrew Kowalevicz RTX (Raytheon) 78
#6 Hongcheng Wang Comcast 77
#7 Jun Sung Park Hyundai Motor 69
#8 Timothy James O'Shea Deepsig 68
#9 Hannes Jouhikainen Capital One Services 64
#10 Mykhaylo Bulgakov Capital One Services 62
#11 Rahul C. Thakkar Pixia 59
#12 Michael J. Davis Microsoft 58
#13 Robert L. Horton M-I L.L.C. 55
#13 Shunsuke Tanimori Toyota 55
#15 Clement Decrop IBM 51
#15 Debra R. Rolison US Air Force 51
#17 Drew Jacobs Capital One Services 48
#18 Thomas D. Reed Precigen 46
#19 Sarah Cunningham Capital One Services 44
#19 Scott Miller Gi Scientific 44
#21 William A. Ferrando US Air Force 42
#22 Daniel John Marsch Capital One Services 39
#23 Franklin D. Lomax, Jr. H2Gen Innovations 37
#24 Alexandra Colevas Capital One Services 36
#24 Newton Howard Unknown 36
#26 Oluwatobi Olabiyi Capital One Services 35
#26 Anurag Patnaik Microstrategy Incorporated 35
#28 Amin Hassanzadeh Accenture Global Solutions Limited 34
#28 Jawad Naciri US Air Force 34
#30 Jason Scot Richardson Parker-Hannifin 33
#30 John Yorkston Carestream Health 33
#30 Farhad Bassirat Dish Wireless L.L.C. 33
#33 Daniel A. Boyd US Dept of Homeland Security 31
#33 Luca Zappaterra Sprint Spectrum 31
#35 Thomas A. Caputo Newell Window Furnishings 30
#35 Allen Halbritter The Boeing 30
#37 Andrea Montealegre Capital One Services 29
#37 Peter Neal Nissen Fischer & Porter Gmbh 29
#39 An V. Le IBM 28
#39 John Rotondo AT&T 28
#41 Igor R. Efimov Washington University 27
#41 Vikash Khatri Afiniti 27
#41 J. Douglas Gordon Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) 27
#44 Kevan Emmott Capital One Services 26
#45 Thomas G. Woolston Ebay 25
#45 Richard A. Prause The Boeing 25
#45 Kamran Sistanizadeh Bell Atlantic Network Services 25
#45 Alex Leo Niderberg Capital One Services 25
#49 Benjamin Edwards Maskell Henge Docks 24
#49 Timothy James Leo Kress-Spatz Kit Check 24

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