Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fairfax, VA ranks #481 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,782 patents from 1,249 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fairfax, VA include Ofinno, LG, T-Mobile Innovations. That works out to 280.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,249 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Alireza Babaei Ofinno 760
2 Taehun Kim LG 338
3 Marouane Balmakhtar T-Mobile Innovations 119
#4 Praduman Jain Vignet Incorporated 118
#5 Phuong Huynh Sigmasense, Llc. 96
#6 Lance A. Liotta US Dept of Health & Human Services 93
#7 Zheng Cai T-Mobile Innovations 84
#8 Victor Larson Virnetx 57
#9 Ronnie C. Mease The Johns Hopkins University 41
#9 Timothy L. Hilbert ExxonMobil 41
#11 Eric Osterweil Verisign 40
#11 Lew Goldberg US Air Force 40
#13 Swapneel Sheth Verisign 39
#13 Udit Thakore Sprint Spectrum 39
#15 Clayton C. Bonnell United States Postal Service 38
#15 Neeta Jain Vignet Incorporated 38
#17 Joram Shenhar United States Postal Service 36
#18 Yeonjoon Park NASA 35
#18 Daniel Kang Vungle 35
#20 Alexei H. Sacks Seagate Technology 33
#20 Saravanan Mallesan Verizon 33
#22 Eric F. Cabahug Prototype Productions Incorporated Ventures Two 32
#22 Heung Yong Ha Korea Institute Of Science And Technology 32
#24 Jorge Vasquez Spin Memory 31
#24 Jiang Wang Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. 31
#26 Jeffrey Wieker Capital One Services 30
#26 Adam Goldberg Sony 30
#28 Benjamin S. Umansky ExxonMobil 29
#29 Bal K. Kaul ExxonMobil 28
#29 Mark Andrew Hanson Alarm.Com Incorporated 28
#29 Matthew Weatherly Becker Designed 28
#32 Thomas Hoffmann Senseware 27
#33 Aleksander Kolcz Aol 26
#33 Edward L. Wellner Eaton 26
#35 Vladislav Gavrilets Rockwell Collins 25
#35 Charles D. Merritt US Navy 25
#35 James Mollenkopf Current Technologies 25
#35 Nathan D. Hansen Conductive Composites Company Ip 25
#35 Frank Eugene Pecjak Comscore 25
#40 Changwei Liu Sursen 24
#41 Amar S. Wanni ExxonMobil 23
#41 Scott E. Semmler Corning Cable Systems 23
#43 Charles P. McLellan United States Postal Service 22
#43 Robert W. Flower Novadaq Technologies Ulc 22
#43 Jeenok T. Kim ExxonMobil 22
#43 Michael A. Mastro US Air Force 22
#47 Kenneth W. Aull Northrop Grumman 21
#47 Navid Omidbakhsh Asp Global Manufacturing Gmbh 21
#47 Swati Tiwari Clearwire Ip Holdings L.L.C. 21
#47 Yih Huang George Mason 21

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