Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Burlington, VT ranks #801 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,216 patents from 475 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Burlington, VT include IBM, Panasonic, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft. That works out to 94.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 475 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Anthony K. Stamper IBM 633
2 Edward J. Nowak IBM 501
3 Andres Bryant IBM 184
#4 Christopher D. Muzzy IBM 140
#5 Michael D'ANDREA Panasonic 118
#6 Robert K. Leidy IBM 110
#7 Wilbur D. Pricer IBM 91
#8 Wayne H. Woods, Jr. IBM 68
#9 Wolfgang Krautschneider Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 51
#9 John E. Gersbach IBM 51
#11 Scott Whitney Gould IBM 50
#11 Nicholas Moy Beta Air 50
#13 Robert M. Geffken IBM 43
#14 Collin Freiheit Beta Air 42
#15 Thomas M. Maffitt IBM 40
#16 John S. Parkinson Allstate Insurance 37
#16 Christopher P. Townsend 37
#18 Peter J. Lindgren IBM 35
#19 Ryan Andrew Jurasek Nanya Technology 34
#20 Peter Traneus Anderson GE 33
#20 Peter Poechmueller Infineon Technologies Ag 33
#20 Charles F. Musante IBM 33
#23 Gunnar Krause Infineon Technologies Ag 31
#24 Thomas J. Dunbar IBM 30
#25 James Geier 555 Design Fabrication Management 27
#25 Mark A. Beiley Intel 27
#25 James Laughlin Burton 27
#28 Maureen A. Delaney IBM 26
#29 Amir Hekmatpour IBM 25
#30 Wolfgang Hokenmaier Infineon Technologies Ag 23
#31 Timothy G. Dunham IBM 20
#31 Andrew Kaplan Johnson & Johnson 20
#31 Ilya I. Novof IBM 20
#31 Clifford Owen Morgan, III IBM 20
#35 David Anthony Gaensbauer Novelis 19
#35 Adam Peter Karl, IV Shock Doctor 19
#37 Max L. Lifson IBM 18
#37 Aaron Wisniewski Faurecia Interior Systems 18
#39 Emily Gallagher IBM 17
#40 Per K. Hansen Position Orientation Systems 16
#40 Michael Rosen Bose 16
#40 Glen E. Richard IBM 16
#40 Brian J. Machesney IBM 16
#44 Matthew S. Grady IBM 15
#44 Richard T. Ziemba GE 15
#44 Bret Roberts Dale Nanya Technology 15
#44 Richard Orlando Toohey Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 15
#48 Safwan R. Wshah Xerox 14
#48 Stephen Furkay IBM 14
#48 Douglas W. Phelps, Jr. IBM 14

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