Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Columbia, MD ranks #533 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,333 patents from 1,501 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Columbia, MD include Alarm.Com Incorporated, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Newport Fab. That works out to 60.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,501 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Donald Gerard Madden Alarm.Com Incorporated 124
2 Masayuki Nishimura Sumitomo Electric Industries 107
3 Nabil El-Hinnawy Newport Fab 63
#4 Pamela Tan Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 58
#4 David E. W. Vaughan ExxonMobil 58
#6 Charles Chang Unknown 57
#7 Bin Jia IBM 56
#8 Ergin Atalar The Johns Hopkins University 54
#9 Geoffrey S. Howard Black & Decker 48
#9 Richard A. Morgan E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 48
#11 Feng Gu W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 47
#12 Michael T. VanSickler Becton, Dickinson And 43
#13 Han-Zhong Zhang Cytovia 39
#14 Austin Kim Samsung 37
#14 Charles R. Eddy, Jr. US Air Force 37
#16 Lawrence Loomis New Horizons Diagnostics 36
#17 Alla Danilkovitch Osiris Therapeutics 35
#18 Ronald E. Meyers US Army 32
#19 Leonid A. Beresnev Deutsche Telekom Ag 31
#20 Parag V. Karmarkar Mri Interventions 30
#21 Keith S. Deacon US Army 29
#21 Mark Huza Camfil Farr 29
#21 James R. Niblett Black & Decker 29
#24 Michael D. Bamburak AT&T 28
#24 Joseph T. Lundquist W. R. Grace & 28
#26 Srinivas Rao The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 27
#26 Dorai Ramprasad Air Products And Chemicals 27
#26 Shiping Liu Dalian Institute Of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences 27
#26 Michael S. Ziebarth W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 27
#30 Srinivasa R. Raghavan University Of Maryland, College Park 26
#30 Muniswamappa Anjanappa Black & Decker 26
#30 Toshiya Matsubara Asahi Glass Co. 26
#33 Barton James Bradbury Achillion Pharmaceuticals 25
#33 Benjamin Aaron Miller Sinclair Broadcast Group 25
#33 Paul R. Caron Atlantek 25
#33 James Casey Lippmeier Dsm Ip Assets B.V. 25
#37 Gregory S. Hill Dynetics Engineering Corporation 24
#37 Felek Jachimowicz W. R. Grace & 24
#39 Yongwen Yang Interdigital Technology 23
#39 Paul J. Biermann The Johns Hopkins University 23
#41 Myron M. Levine University Of Maryland, Baltimore 22
#41 Jing Zhong Huazhong University Of Science And Technology 22
#41 Yordan Kostov University Of Maryland, Baltimore 22
#44 Momtaz N. Mansour Manufacturing And Technology Conversion International 21
#44 Thomas Andrew Blinka W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 21
#44 Chunling Zhao Dlhbowles 21
#47 Saraswati Sukumar The Johns Hopkins University 20
#47 Sadhana Gupta The Nielsen Company (Us) 20
#47 Ziqiang Hu GE 20
#47 John C. Engdahl Siemens Medical Solutions Usa 20

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