Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Burke, VA ranks #3,238 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 933 patents from 233 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Burke, VA include RTX (Raytheon), United States Postal Service, Face International Corporaton. That works out to 22.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 233 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gary M. Graceffo RTX (Raytheon) 67
2 Scott R. Bombaugh United States Postal Service 48
3 Richard P. Bishop Face International Corporaton 35
#4 Joel M. Schnur US Air Force 32
#4 Jeffrey M. Calvert US Air Force 32
#6 Ronald D. Esman US Air Force 25
#7 Robert V. Kromrey RTX (Raytheon) 24
#8 Victoria K. Stephen United States Postal Service 19
#9 John Green Baxter Healthcare Sa 15
#9 Robert Furstenberg US Navy 15
#9 Brandon P. Gutierrez US Dept of Homeland Security 15
#12 Eric D. Joseck ExxonMobil 14
#12 Chris Kendziora US Air Force 14
#12 Michael A. Markowitz US Air Force 14
#15 Jonathan Matthew Miller Amazon 13
#15 William J. Tracy, III ExxonMobil 13
#15 Timothy Ryan Underwood Grey Market Labs, Pbc 13
#18 David Woods 3Di 12
#18 Carl A. Villarruel US Air Force 12
#20 Irwin Braude Cetus 11
#20 Randall Paul Joseph Ethier Cisco 11
#20 Sanghoon Shin IBM 11
#23 Oh-Kil Kim US Air Force 10
#24 Frances C. Williams Eastman Kodak 8
#24 Jose Manuel Rivera University Of Puerto Rico 8
#24 Francis Goodwin Infineon Technologies Ag 8
#27 Thomas Bold National Semiconductor 7
#27 Jack Newman Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals 7
#27 André A. Adams US Air Force 7
#27 William E. Johnson, III Heraeus Noblelight America 7
#27 Gregory Slonim Palantir Technologies 7
#27 David R. Mott US Air Force 7
#27 Michael K. Yetzbacher US Air Force 7
#27 James E. Feather ExxonMobil 7
#35 Richard F. Hubbard US Air Force 6
#35 Paul J. Bayless Datavant 6
#35 Alan Letzt Vocollect Healthcare Systems 6
#35 Salvatore Calabrese 6
#35 Bruce Donald Jette US Army 6
#40 Kelly D. Sherbondy US Army 5
#40 Edward M. Yee Hughes Aircraft 5
#40 Alan Robert Lynn Cisco 5
#40 John D. Sethian US Air Force 5
#40 Franz J. Gayl US Air Force 5
#40 James C. Fowler Conoco 5
#40 James Fleming Recording Industry Association Of America 5
#40 Isadore Schoen United States Postal Service 5
#40 Carrie Fischer Human Genome Sciences 5
#49 John Green Cirkul 4
#49 Christopher James Mort Daon Holdings Limited 4

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